Tenerife receives Barça without a safety net
BARCELONA, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Lenovo Tenerife receives Barça this Thursday at the Pab. Dep. Tenerife Santiago Martín (8:30 p.m., peninsular time) in the second game of the quarterfinal match of the Endesa League Playoff, with no margin for error for the Tenerife people who must go all out to win and force a third game , which would be again at the Palau Blaugrana for a Barça that does not want to return to its fiefdom in this series.
After Barça’s victory at the Palau in the first game (96-86), the series moves to the Canary Islands with emergencies for Lenovo Tenerife and a little more peace of mind for Barça. The Tenerife people have no choice but to win while the Blaugranas have two match balls in their favor to manage.
For now, these Playoffs have started with fast-track victories for the team that had the home court factor in its favor and Barça does not want to be less. At this point in the season, the more games you play the physical cost can be more expensive in future duels.
“Playing on the islands is always difficult. We already won the Regular League game with a triple by Jabari Parker in the last second. It will be a very complicated game in which we will have to do many things well, and especially be very solid in defense,” commented Barça coach, Roger Grimau, prior to the clash.
And the triple was important in this first game. The Blaugranas, led by Jabari Parker (inspired against Lenovo Tenerife) and Álex Abrines, defeated the Tenerife team, despite the fact that the ‘culers’ suffered to defeat a Canarian team that entrusted itself to the magic of the American guard Kyle Guy.
Up to 34 points, 23 of them in the first half, the North American scored, vital for the Tenerife team to be able to take the initiative at times. However, his compatriot Parker’s 23 goals and Abrines’ 19, with 6 of 7 triples to contribute to his team’s 13 of 26, gave the Catalans a 1-0 lead.
As soon as the triples from Kyle Guy and former Blaugrana Marcelinho Huertas stopped going in, Barça took control of the game and won with a comfortable margin. Now, at the Santiago Martín, they will find even more opposition to be able to close the series with 2-0 and focus now on the possible semifinals against Real Madrid, a team that Tenerife wants to face that must win two games in a row against a Barça that He hasn’t won this year.
DATASHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
LENOVO TENERIFE: Huertas, Fitipaldo, Cook, Abromaitis and Guerra –possible starting quintet–; Vicedo, Guy, Diop, Sastre, Sangare, López, Riga, Salin and Stevic.
BARÇA: Rubio, Laprovittola, Abrines, Parker and Vesely –possible starting quintet–; Da Silva, Paulí, Kalinic, Satoransky, Nnaji, Jokubaitis and Parra.
–REFEREES: Conde, Olivares and Sánchez Cutillas.
–PAVILLION: Pab. Dep. Tenerife James Martin.
–TIME: 8:30 p.m. (peninsular time)/Movistar+.
2024-05-22 17:14:56
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