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Ibon Navarro: “If it has been difficult, Saturday will be more”

Ibon Navarro is clear: “If it has been difficult, Saturday will be more”. Happy for this wonderful victory, but already thinking about the semifinal against Real Madrid, the Unicaja coach said that now he has to “be calm, rest and lower the adrenaline” to be able to put up a fight against Chus Mateo’s team. «It will be very different from Barça. If we don’t think we can, why have we come, “he added.

«We have held on to the parquet with what we could. We had set ourselves an objective in the rebound and we have been faithful to the game plan. We have finally found players with lucidity, that they were being solid back, like the rest. We have used Will as a beacon. The defense against Kalinoski left us spaces in the paint. I am very happy with the team, with Dario. We have to rest, on Saturday we have another one », he assessed the victory against Barça in the Cup quarterfinals in Badalona.

The coach from Vitoria was already in a cup semifinal, and lost it against Unicaja, and now he will have a good opportunity after a match that “many people thought we could win.” “Very happy. I was already in a Cup semifinal and Unicaja ran over me,” he said.

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The game was decided in extra time, due to details, but this time it fell on the green side. «We have lost many games due to some unfair arbitration decision, out of frustration and losing energy in defense. We have done the opposite forcing 12 losses on Barça has a lot of merit. We have learned the lesson. We have been as far from winning as losing, success was thinking that we could win, “he said.

Ibon highlights the group above individualities to achieve this success of eliminating Barça 29 years later in a tie. «The other day Dario and Tyson leave with 6 points. others have appeared. On Saturday, others. This team never knows where it’s going to come from. Kravish is still sick, it shows, and he leaves with 10 points. Thomas’ game, from ‘5’ against Vesely… It has been spectacular. Many players have had a very good performance, that you don’t see. Defend and work. Execute ideas that we cultivate since we started. If we were thinking about Baskonia’s extra time, we would not have won. You have to think about the positive, not about what happened four days ago. She speaks highly of the maturity of the group. You must not lose focus, you have to learn from the things that are happening to you, “said the Navarrese.

Asked by the referees, Navarro said that he has “many other things to think about for Saturday». I’ll have to watch the video. In a game that is decided in extra time… I’m happy because we won. The assessment is subjective, you want to be whistled in favor. I don’t know how to assess whether it was good or bad. We have kept the bar of fouls, I don’t know if there have been many mistakes, “he said.

For his part, Darío Brizuela was the green player in charge of attending to the media in the press room: «We have followed Ibon’s plan. We have been solid on the rebound and on defense at key moments. We have been very good in extra time. It has been everyone’s thing. I am not only happy for my match. Will has been amazing at the end. Perry has made a game…».

Brizuela was one of the outstanding players in a match that was close to not playing due to a personal problem. «My son is sick and I was close to not coming. I prefer to leave it private, here we come to talk about basketball.

«I have felt very comfortable from the beginning, scoring and with a good rhythm. It has gone well. It is nothing special for being Barcelona. The other time we were very close to winning, we have now been much better », he concluded.

For his part, Saras Jasikevicius began his presentation by congratulating Unicaja but lamented that “the games must be killed”, referring to the end of the game made by his players.

«Unicaja does its thing, but we were controlling. We have had problems with rebounding from the outsiders, it was discussed before the game, also by them. They have lost tall people. We have dominated the rebound in normal situations, but we have not closed possessions. In a Cup match, if you don’t kill, anything can happen. Concentration for 40 minutes, we couldn’t keep it », he assessed about the game.

Asked about Brizuela’s performance, the Lithuanian coach said that he played “a great game”, although it was not the first time he did it before the Catalans. «He already did it in the Madrid Cup and at the Palau. We have given away 15 free throws in the last quarter. I can’t get it as a coach that we act differentlysaid Jasikevicius.

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