He had only won two games this season. Alba Berlinthe bottom of the Euroleague, in 14 days, against the Zalgiri y al Armani Milan. It is a block well trained by the Spanish coach Israel Gonzalez, heir to Aito on the German bench, but limited in resources. There will be three now after the visit of a Barcelona unrecognizable, soft, with little punch, which fell at the Mercedes Benz Arena (74-70) and gave an unexpected Christmas gift to the stoic German fans.
He Barça once again showed that it is going through a critical moment and that it has not quite adapted to such a demanding season and with so much saturation of commitments, not even in matches without as much tension as the one in Berlin, where the Barça team returned to their old ways and added their fifth defeat in the last seven games. From the team that two days before passed over the Baskonia, no sign. On the court where Efes, Asvel, Panathinaikos o Baskonia have imposed their law, the azulgranas were far below expectations, disoriented, nervous, without guidance, because the three players who have set their course so far, Satoransky, Laprovittola and, to a lesser extent, veselythey seem saturated and only appeared in spurts.
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He Barça maintained the defensive consistency of Sunday against the Baskonito. But only at the beginning. That quickly paid dividends with a very favorable score (7-19), which seemed to make his job easier in Berlin. But the rotations had the opposite effect to what could be expected. The second unit of the German team worked effectively, especially Brown, Procida and later on Thomasand the Barça bench players, with the sole exception of Brizuelathey made the result worse to make people believe Alba that they had some choice in the evening. At rest, the Barça He went ahead, although with bad feelings (38-41). But upon returning from the locker room, he confirmed the change in dynamics, after a 9-0 run in favor of the Germans, with a Alba very involved and the Barcelona players watching everything from a distance.
What could not happen, finding themselves behind on the scoreboard (47-41) is what the team of grimace. And once again the nerves, the doubts and the inconsistency took hold among the Blaugranas, who entered the final period behind (56-52) and were no longer able to change their destiny, despite a final push led by vesely and despite the fear of winning that shrank the Germans’ wrist in the last two minutes.
Albums Berlin, 74 – FC Barcelona, 70
White Berlin: Spagnolo (2), Brown (10), Thomas (13), Wetzell (10), Thiemann (12) – starting five- Procida (11), Delow (5), Mattiseck (2), Schneider (5). (4), Bean (-)
9 of 26 triples (Thomas, Thiwmann, 2), 33 rebounds, 10 offensive (Comment 7), 18 assists (Delow, 6)
FC Barcelona: Satoransky (5), Laprovittola (15), Kalinic (8), Parker (7), Vesely (8) – starting five – Da Silva (6), Paulí (2), Brizuela (7), Hernangómez (7), Jokubaitis (2), Nnaji (-), Parra (3)
6 of 24 triples (Kalinic, Laprovittola, 2),36 rebounds, 13 offensive (Satoransky, 10), 16 assists (Satoransky, 4)
Partials: 19-22; 19-19; 18-11; 18-18
2023-12-19 19:59:40
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