Barça He faces this afternoon, starting at 5 pm, a demanding visit to Buesa Arena Before closing the regular season of the Endesa League. Either in ACB or Euroleague, face Baskonia It always is one difficult proof, And the precedents between both teams This campaign are a good sign of this: for the moment, the Vitorians have awarded two of the three games played.
The team of Pablo Laso He won the Palau on the fourth day of Endesa League by 89-93 on the fateful night in which Nico Laprovittola suffered his serious knee injury. The second joy came on the stage of this afternoon, in Euroleague's commitment. That night, Baskonia also won 88-86 thanks to a basket practically on the horn of Trent Forrest. Barça's only victory against Baskonia this course arrived at Palau, in continental match, in which those of Joan Peñarroya It was imposed by a forceful 91-68.
Illusible return home
Although Baskonia has been superior in that melee, the truth is that it is being a Really complicated season for the Vitorian team. Laso's arrival last summer caused Great illusion In the Baskonist parish, being one of the best news of recent years for the social mass of the club. Someone returning to Vitoria who dressed more than a decade the team's elastic, and that as a coach, He returned home after a good campaign in Munich, where he achieved a cup and league with Bayern, and consecrated as one of the best national coaches of all time after their glorious time at the head of the Real Madrid.
Laso was brought players like Donta Hall, One of the best interiors of the Euroleague after its performance in Monaco, to the French eaves Timothé Luwawu-Cararrot, o Like Baldwin, in one of those bets that the Vitorian team carries out every summer. All keeping profiles like Markus Howard, Chima Moneke O Tadas Seedekerskis. But the team that has come out of this mixture is far from offering what had been dreamed at the beginning of the course.
Núñez, defended by Luwawu-Cabarrot against Baskonia / Javi Ferrándiz
No Cup for the third time in the last four seasons
Baskonia did not achieve the ticket for the Copa del Rey. Something surprising, but confirming a really negative trend of the club: there are already three coperas absences in the last three editions. As for the Euroleague, the team could not repeat the playoff last season, finishing the regular season in 14th position With a balance of 14 wins and 20 losses, remaining four games apart from Red Star, tenth classified.
And in Liga Endesa, those of Laso arrive at day 32 in the Eighth position, with 16 victories, the same as Baxi Manresa. They have the particular average won to the box of the Bages, so that, ending with the same wins, they would overcome them in the table. Diego Ocampo's are received this Sunday at Real Madrid In the Nou Congost and will test the good moment of the whites, which add up to 19 consecutive victories in ACB. After the victory last night of Dreamland Gran Canaria against Joventut (79-68), green and islands already stay with 18 victories, in addition to having the Average favorable to the Vitorians.
Pablo Laso took a technique for protesting in Baskonia's visit to Real Madrid / EFE
Laso's words before measuring Barça
In that roller coaster That is being the Baskonia season, the Vitorians depend on themselves to achieve the ticket for the playoff, but the image against Barça must be very different from the one exhibited last weekend at the Olimpic, where Joventut surpassed them clearly and bluntly (90-71). “I have a lot of respect for Barça, they arrive with the feeling of going up. I wait a different game than the three we have lived during the season. I am happy with the work that the team has done this week, “said the Vitorian coach in the previous one.
After the match against Barça, Bascinian baskorá ojugará ante Bilbao Basket and law Coruña. In the Basque derby, men in black are not played more than honor, while the Galician painting already certified its descent to First Feb a few days ago. It will be to see the performance that Laso from your team manages to get your team in these last weeks of the season. And of course, it is clear that the club has a lot of work to do in the offices this summer. With a contract until 2027, the Vitorian coach must be important in making the workforce of the next course, in a signing window in which it plays to approach so that Baskonia raises the flight again.
