2023-11-25 21:23:03
With little to lose and much to gain, he Basketball Girona will look to ring the bell this Sunday (5:00 p.m., Movistar Deportes 3) in an almost impregnable track in recent years in the regular phase of the ACB as the Palau Blaugrana. Without considering the playoff, no one has won since April 14, 2022, when Unicaja stormed the Feud Culer in a match without too much significance for the team then coached by Saras Jasikevicius.
For this match, the situation is radically different, as Roger Grimau’s men are not in very good shape and will need to be at their best to defeat a Girona team that, despite the obvious difference in talent, is currently a direct rival in classification terms. And just because of being so close to the Blaugrana transatlantic ship those of Salva Camps have earned the right to dream of a victory that would be historic.
In the previous press conference, the coach from Badalona of Básquet Girona emphasized the great difficulty of winning at the Palau Blaugrana and took iron out of the last defeats of the team, one of them particularly forceful at the Baskonia field. “They come from beating Maccabi away and have yet to lose at home this year. It is probably the most difficult track in Europe. It is a team with great players and threats in all positions“, remembered Campswho knows what is winning at the Palau from when I was on Pedro Martínez’s staff with BAXI Manresa.
To face this major challenge, Salva Camps has the entire staff – with the exception of a Juani Marcos who next week will undergo tests to find out where he is in his recovery – and has had a long week to complete a good week of training. “We used the week to improve as a team without thinking much about the weekend game, but about the individual improvement of the players and the team”, commented the technician.
The visit to the Palau also comes at a time when calculations are already starting to be made about the options to be in the Copa del Rey de Málaga, but Camps prefers to focus on the day-to-day work and not do too much cabal despite the illusion that is installed in the dressing room. “My ambition is to try to be competitive on Sunday and not go further. Hopefully we’ll have options to get into the Cup, and if we don’t and we’re one game away we’ll be very happy because it’ll mean we’ll have a lot of wins“, he argued.
To have winning options eBasketball Girona will need the best version of many players and, especially, the inspiration of their game directors, on which the pace and fluidity of the team largely depends. In the match against Breogán, for example, the leadership of Ike Iroegbu was key and also the direction of a Quino Colom who gave moments of play when he was on the court. The Andorran baseman believes that the keys to competing against Barça will be “play at our pace, control the rebound and stop his outside shot”.
The people of Girona know quite well, in fact, what the dangers of Roger Grimau’s new Barça are for the Catalan League game. Laprovittola, who has become the leader in external scoring with 11 points per game, did a lot of damage to Salva Camps with his success in triples at the beginning of the game. And the other factor to consider is the game in transition, which gives many free points to the culers against the lower generation in static attack than in the stage with Jasikevicius. Besides, Barça has one of its main weak points in the defense of the interior gameand especially with Willy Hernangomezwho, despite being the team’s top scorer, suffers against interior players with greater physical capacity.
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