Barça destroys a Manresa with more heart than head

The local team started very aggressive in defense and successful with Harding’s triples. With the most favorable six (8-2 min 3), Barça entered the game and with a run of 2-16 reversed the difference (10-18 min 7). The azulgranas increased the result after Pedro Martínez’s time-out and placed the advantage at seventeen points.

Baxi Manresa came out with a 5-0 run ready to come back, but, when Barça managed to slow down the pace of the game, the game leveled again in a less offensive second quarter (20-34 min 15). When the people from Manresa saw that they couldn’t get close, the azulgranas took the opportunity to stretch the difference with a partial of 9-13 to finish the fourth with an 18-point lead.

The third quarter began with an exchange of baskets, but the local team had a moment of inspiration and culminated a partial of 17-10 to get closer to around ten points. It was the match moment for the Manresans, where they even offered a show to the Nou Congost with a huge block from the forward Sagnia to the Barça player, Higgins. Saras’ team turned up the heat again and regained the lead by around twenty points before the fourth quarter.

In the last quarter andl Barça simply worried about enduring the result and to rotate players before the Euroleague doubleheader that they must face this coming week.