Barça de Basket faces the last two weeks of the regular season in the Endesa League Before starting the playoff dispute for the title, the last one he aspires to try not to close the blank campaign for the second consecutive course.
This Sunday, starting at 5pm (two hours before the Euroleague final starts), Joan Peñarroya and his players receive a Bàsquet Girona at the Palau against which they lost in the first round (91-90) in one of the more critical moments of the season, and with a cup classification that seemed practically impossible to achieve. And the second game before the qualifiers for the title will be played on Thursday 30 in Miribilla, against a Bilbao Basket that has the permanence insured, unlike those of Moncho Fernández, They must still close it.
These days, the Barca template takes the opportunity to recharge batteries after the wear of the demanding season: there are 76 games that, after the Absence of Tomas Satoransky In the Buesa Arena last Sunday, they have made all the players of the first team have physical problems at some point in the course. The recovery margin is scarce and miracles cannot be expected from a template that arrives with excessive load in these last weeks of the season. The objective is to recover legs and reach the playoff in the best possible condition: Barça could play three games in the same week at the crossroads of the final.
Joan Peñarroya, Barça coach / EFE
Anderson has played 70 of the 76 games that Barça has played this season
Of those 76 meetings combining all competitions, Justin Anderson has played 70. 28 of Liga Endesa, 37 from Euroleague, one of Super Copa, another of Cup and three of Lliga Catalan. In ACB, the American is averaging 8 points and 2.5 rebounds In just over 19 minutes on average per meeting, with an external percentage of 47.7% success. In Europe, their numbers have been practically similar, with 7.1 goals, 2.8 captures and 41.3% success from the triple line. Montross's exceeds the score last season in the Endesa League of Nikola Kalinic, that he averaged 5.6 points, While in Euroleague, the Serbian signed 7.3 goals under the orders of Roger Grimau.
Justin Anderson applauds an action during a party / Javi Ferrándiz
Important on both sides of the track
With Anderson, Barça has had a player who has guaranteed points, leaving the feeling that It could even be more important in the offensive facet, But he has also enjoyed an eaves that has raised the physical tone of the team and who has guaranteed good defenses. The '1' Barça has endowed the template, and in general, His first year in the Catalan team has been positive. Do not forget that last season, Anderson decided to cross the puddle in his first European adventure, on horseback between Breogan y Valencia Basket.
Justin Anderson, along with Juan Núñez, one of Barça's long -term injured / Valentine Enrich
Delighted with him
In addition, Anderson has earned the dear of a Palau Blaugrana with which he practically connected from day one. The fans, an orphan of references after the farewells, in a short time, of players such as Nikola Mirotic o Cory Higgins, He has found the complicity with a player who has not spared efforts to complete spectacular actions to lift the public from his seats. In Barça they are happy with the player, And the minutejes he has had clear that it is an important piece for Peñarroya. The problem there is, and that this season has already been lived, is that the eaves It occupies extra -community square, Like Jabari Parker. In Endesa League, there is a limit of two foreign records, something that makes it difficult to go to the market to make the workforce. Years ago, Barça was able to incorporate players like Malcolm Delaney o Dante Exum With the season already started, since there was only an extra -community.
Will you get a passport so as not to occupy an extra -community place?
This season, and before the club decided to lower the blind and not undertake any signing to strengthen the game address, having two extra -community players hindered the task: He bet on Raul Neto, which has Italian nationality, and the option of Thomas Heurtel. Of course, Obtaining a passport by Anderson could facilitate things for the future, But you still have to see what decision the club makes in these next weeks. With his compatriot Kevin Punter, With Serbian passport, there were no doubts, and Barça secured its continuity until 2028.
Justin Anderson, in a match with Barça de Basket / Valentine Enrich
“I feel that I can be in Barça for a lifetime. When you find a place where you feel at home, I think it's always good to stay, and it's what happens to me in Barcelona “, Anderson revealed in a interview With Sport last November.
