Everything is very green. the victory of theSpar Girona against him Barça CBS (76-54) yesterday in the second game of the regular season was as necessary as a glass of water for those who cross the Kalahari desert. After losing in the debut in Zaragoza and chaining it with a false step with the defeat of the final of the Catalan League against Cadí, the team of Laura Antoja he couldn’t fail in the premiere of the season in Fontajau. And they didn’t fail. It is worth saying, however, that they did not have them all.
The Girona team is still weighed down by the lack of shooting when making decisions and, although it has the recently incorporated WNBA figures (Morgan Bertsch i Kelsey Mitchell), these still have to overcome the jet-lag of joining the new European routine. In fact, as indicated by the coach in statements after the match, the entire group has only completed one training session together. “The team is very far from what I want to see. (…) I think the group has been patient in big mistakes and in delicate situations, there they have been able to take a break and get back into the game.”
For all that, it wasn’t exactly blowing and blowing bottles for Uni who, despite having defeated the Blaugrana a week ago in the semi-finals of the regional competition, they sweated bravely to seal the victory. The players of Isaac Fernández, without Paula Ginzo and Anna Cruz, they held the pulse until the end of the third quarter. Before, however, they gave war and went to the break stepping on the curtains in the premises (37-39) which, although they had the success of the interiors Magarity (10 punts), Bertsch (12), Three (12) i Labuckiene (8), they didn’t quite have external effectiveness or fluency in their game.
He took advantage of it all Jolene Anderson to make baskets of all colors. One of them included skidding on the advertising stuck to the parquet and which the referee team forced to withdraw when identifying the deadly trap of badly stuck adhesive tape.
Kelsey Mitchell, the great attraction of Uni Girona
Judging the match
Returning from the break Kelsey Mitchell appeared fleetingly with a three-pointer that came at the best possible time: to tie the score. That was precisely the first of an exchange of baskets that decided the game at the end of the third quarter. It all culminated with another triple ofAinhoa López and a shot on the horn of Giedre Labuckiene which put the maximum difference +9 on the scoreboard. After 30 minutes with gritted teeth, the home team started the last quarter and could finally loosen their jaws.
Isaac Fernandez, with his arms resting on his hips, looked at it with resignation and assumed a premise: there was nothing more he could do. With a short rotation of players and with inferiority in centimeters, the Blaugrana simply had no more gas.
So, the first one in the bag. The team from Girona will start the week of the debut in theeurocup with a win under their belt that gives confidence to a group that needs to start taking root. To do so, they look forward to next Wednesday’s duel against him Dudelange. One more match to mature things before visiting the always dreaded track of the Avenida Perfumeries. At the moment it is all planted and still green. Uni will have to be watered to see what blooms.
2023-10-07 17:29:00
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