Básquet Girona does not raise a head and chains five consecutive losing days, the worst current record of an ACB team together with the fuenlabrada. Precisely, on Sunday in Fontajau both teams will face each other, in which it will be the final test for Aíto García Reneses’ team, which cannot afford to stumble again.
Sunday’s defeat to Murcia it was the reflection of a team that cannot find solutions. And it’s not the first day it’s happened to him. Because the dynamic of five defeats in a row, if the calendar is extended, increases to seven defeats in the last eight games. We have gone from a Basketball Girona with the ability to seduce and an eye on a relatively comfortable part of the classification, to a Basketball Girona that, without having serious emergencies because the cushion acquired at the time does not allow it, rather than slowing down suddenly, it starts going backwards.
To find the last victory of the Aíto team, you have to go back to February 11, in the visit of theworkshop (93-76). Before that, the team had already lost against Barça (73-84) and the Brogán (92-70), in a couple of tastes of all the bad symptoms that have been developing afterwards. Accentuated, of course, by the suspension of national teams and the Copa del Rey. A stop that Aíto already cursed in public and that, surely, he still curses in private. And he may be right, indeed.
L’Unicajachampion of the competition (94-70), Valencia (75-79), Bilbao Basketball (84-77), Laziness (79-86) and UCAM Múrcia (102-79) have shown, week after week, the shortcomings of a team that had come to marvel with an immense streak of triumphs not so long ago. The players of Básquet Girona, however, want to destroy this moment as soon as possible, and the first opportunity will be on Sunday against Fuenlabrada, another team that is not about to shoot rockets: it is the heart of the competition, with only three victories, while Girona have eight and a margin of three over the other team that would be relegated right now, Real Betis.