2023-05-13 06:30:12
As much as Aíto García Reneses repeated yesterday the usual chant of focusing on improving the team and having concentration, and did not want to enter into assessing the calculations for permanence, the numbers are counted beans. If Girona wins in Zaragoza this afternoon or Betis knocks out Granada, right after that, salvation will be assured and in the absence of one last day, in the offices of Fontajau they can already be planning the coming season in the ACB, that there will be enough work to improve the discreet performances of ‘this year. Any other scenario equates to very serious problems. It would mean that Girona would be obliged to win their duel against Baskonia (which, holding strong, chooses to finish the regular phase as a leader) in order not to gamble everything on a Granada defeat at home against youth
After Tuesday’s disaster against Betis, going 0-24 in the final seven minutes and squandering a 19-point lead at the start of the second half, which Girona will be seen today in Zaragoza is hard to say. Yesterday in the preliminary appearance, Aíto kept his usual low-profile, very unencouraging speech. Clichés and more clichés, the confirmation that two of the best pieces, Kameron Taylor and Marc Gasol, are still in doubt (they did not train on Wednesday or Thursday) and the insistence on the need to maintain concentration for 40 minutes and not let go away if they are evil. About the defeat against Betis Aíto said that “it seems to be a strange circumstance but these things happen, and you could see it in the Granada game, which lost by 18 and came back, or the Madrid-Partizan, where it happened the same”. He also admitted that on the bench it was clear that in the last seconds the average was at stake, lost by Montero’s triple finish, and that they did not know how to avoid it.
Before Aíto Quino Columbus spoke, to send a slightly more encouraging message that of the coach: “It’s time to show that we are an ACB team on the court”, assured the base. The Andorran admitted that “the first night after Tuesday’s defeat was very hard, but as the week went by we got up. We know the way to take the things we’ve done right and the things we’ve done wrong.” In this sense, he assured that after what was seen in Fontajau against Betis in Zaragoza “we must go out with more force and with more desire”, and try to take advantage of the fact that the rival has already done everything.
From Zaragoza, Porfirio Fisac tried to motivate his players: “we have to see if we are an ambitious and competitive team or a conformist one”, he assured in the previous press conference. The Aragonese, saved mathematically, have the absence of the promising Aday Mara, who has not trained because he had exams. The rest, even though there are players in the team who have been touched, will be available for a decisive match for Girona.
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