2023-12-15 20:36:21
Strengthen the defense. Prevent the opponent from exceeding 100 points for the fourth consecutive match (Barça, Andorra and Manresa). And appeal to individual commitment to grow, from here, the team. These are some of the main recipes that two Girona Basketball players scored this afternoon, Sergi Martínez and Yves Ponsin an event open to fans at the Girona Fibra store on Carrer Santa Clara, where club products are sold these holidays.
“We have to play harder as a team. We have been practicing it these days, with more contact in the game”, pointed out Yves Pons. The French winger is also clear that “most of the points they score for us are from the paint. I think we have to play with more contact and put more of our body in defense.” Sergi Martínez sees it the same way: “matches are won from the defense, from the back, and if your rivals exceed 100 points it’s always harder to row. It’s all a lack of concentration, during the whole week we prepare the matches conscientiously but then there may be things that we forget or we are not focused enough. We must appeal to individual responsibility as well, and that we all stay focused for the 40 minutes.”
Last tomorrow (12.30) El Joventut arrives in Fontajau, with the same balance of victories and defeats (7/6), both teams ready to burn the last cartridges in the fight for the King’s Cup. Girona’s blazing start (3-0) fired the dream, which as the days have passed, has faded, especially after the last two outings in Barcelona and Manresa. Pons said that “we are focused on match by match. Now we only think about the Youth and then we’ll see if the results are good for the Cup. We can’t think about what will happen in a few weeks, but we have to be focused on the nearest goal. We must try to be better individually and as a team, especially in defence.’ For Martínez the Cup is still possible: “we are aware that at the beginning of the season no one would have set it as their main goal but we are still there. We want to do our best to go, but each game is a different war.”
The player on loan from Barça has appealed to the fans: “People are very involved in the game, we feel the fans very close, it shows when we play at home”. This factor can be one of the keys to tomorrow. “It will be a long game, they have a combination of veteranity and youth that makes them dangerous.” Martínez, finally, has been satisfied with his role at Girona: “I’m achieving what I set out to do, which was to enjoy and feel good feelings again”.
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