Unicaja, forced to make history in the Endesa League

The numbers, of course, are compelling and contrary to the interests of cashiers on this occasion. And it is that In the best-of-five semifinal qualifiers, as Unicaja and Barça are now playing, no one has been able to come back from 2-1.

In the history of the Endesa League, there have been 28 qualifiers that have achieved this result in the partial score of the series and in all of them the team that started with home field advantage ended up qualifying for the play-off Final. On 11 occasions, the team that reached the fourth game with an adverse result managed to force a fifth tiebreaker, in which victory finally fell to the team that was ahead after the third game (3-2, 39.3% ), while in the remaining 16 there was no option for a second win for the team that was playing at home in that game (3-1, 60.7%).

For now, this Tuesday, at the Martín Carpena, from 9:00 p.m., the fourth game of the series will be played. If Unicaja loses, the semifinal will be over. If the greens win and equalize the score (2-2), the fifth and final game will be played on Thursday, starting at 10 pm, at the Palau Blaugrana.

Unicaja has two “impossible” records in the history of the playoffs

It will not be easy for Unicaja to break the forecasts and change the history of the playoffs, coming back from Barça this semi and qualifying for the final, but the truth is that the green team can boast of being the team capable of the “impossibles” in the history of the Endesa League playoffs.

The green set is, for example, eThe only one who finished eighth in the Regular League has been able to eliminate the champion of the first phase in the quarterfinals. It was in the quarterfinals of the 2007-08 season, when Sergio Scariolo’s Unicaja beat Real Madrid, then coached by Joan Plaza, 2-0.

Unicaja also has another record. It was the first team to lift a 0-2 loss in a playoff for the title. It was against Etosa Alicante, in a cross that was played in a 1-1-1-1-1 format, with the home team advantage and in which the Los Guindos club ended up coming back from 3-2, in the quarterfinals. end of the 2004/05 season.