From the 21:15h, Unicaja and Barça begin a quarter -final qualifier of the Endesa League playoff With an uncertain prognosis of a series, a priori the most matched, in which the fourth and fifth classified of the regular season are measured.
Battle and intensity will not be missing Since the ball returns to heaven from Martín Carpena, in a round in which each possession counts, since we must not forget that, unlike the semifinals and the grand final, The Endesa League playoff rooms are played at best with three games.
For Barça, this playoff is presented as a Gold opportunity To close the season with a final joy, such as the achievement of an ACB that was last achieved in 2023. That last title of Sarunas jasikevicius, nikola mirotic o cory highgins It is still the last one that has achieved the section. The threat of ending the year blank is on the table for a group tired by the absence of signings and terribly punished for injuries.
Unicaja and Barça face in the quarterfinals of the Endesa League playoff / ACB Photo – Mariano Pozo
Unicaja looks for the fifth title of the season
The beginning of the road through the Endesa League is not easy, since in front, Barça will have a Unicaja that seeks what would be his fifth title of the season. The most competitive version of the picture that Ibon Navarro trains has made the Intercontinental, the Endesa Super Cup, the Copa del Rey and the BCl Already in the showcases of Martín Carpena. The Andalusian team lives one of the sweetest moments in all its history, and will try to make a track factor with which they start the series.
So far this season, both teams have faced each other in Two occasions, All of them in Endesa League, since they did not coincide in Super Cup or in Cup. The balance is of a victory and a defeat for each team, and the triumphs were pointed out by the team that worked as a home: 103-96 in Malaga and 83-81 at Palau.
Tyson Carter and Kevin Punter, in a Unicaja-Barça / ACB Photo – Mariano Pozo
The battle between the two sets is matched this campaign, but the truth is that there is a given Between the two teams in the playoffs of the Endesa League that seems to have gone unnoticed, but that is on the table and that must be taken into account.
The data that plays against Unicaja
And is thatin the ACB qualifiers between both teams, Barça has always ended up imposing. For 30 years, and Up to 10 occasions, the Barca team has taken the cat to the water. It happened for the first time in the finals of 1995, which took the team of Aíto García Reneses 3-2. After that, round or semifinal rooms, always with the same prognosis, as happened in the 'sowing' of 2023 that Barça de Saras was pointed out 3-1.
In addition, and as collects the website of the Malaga club, Barça has only been absent three times from the semifinals Since the ACB was founded in the 83-84 campaign: they were in the years 1992 against Real Madrid, in 2005 against students and in 2017 against Valencia Basket.
