BarcelonaA Barça with five casualties avoided a third consecutive defeat thanks to a victory on the court of a combative Río Breogán. Sarunas Jasikevicius already sensed that the triumph would not be simple. “We got a hard-earned and deserved victory. We went from less to more, improving the defense. We knew we would suffer because we are going through a bad time. We managed to win in an ugly way,” he summarized.
When the maximum is not enough
Eight defeats in the last nine games have set off the alarms at Baxi Manresa. A very positive last quarter was not enough to win at Real Madrid. “We played a very good game. It’s tough to know that we were close to our best and instead we didn’t have any chance to win. We hope to always have that mentality. We don’t have to complain about injuries. We have to work to give our best level, we don’t have to worry about the rest,” analyzed Pedro Martínez.
Without defense there is no tactic
Básquet Girona cannot find the key to rectify the situation. A 34-9 run in the third period ended Fonteta’s options for the Girona team, which conceded its fifth consecutive loss. The Catalan team received 104 points and 20 triples. “Tactics go to a second level. The most important thing is to play with concentration or intensity, which is what Valencia Basket has done,” summed up Aíto García Reneses.
The hero is the collective
El Joventut overthrew the leader on Saturday and much of the blame lay with Andrés Feliz, who starred in a masterful last quarter against an opponent of the level of Marcelinho Huertas. “Without his game we wouldn’t have done what we did, but you always ask me individually. He did his job, like all his teammates. We didn’t stop believing and we played good basketball,” summed up Carles Duran, who he preferred to emphasize the collective response.
