Barça has fallen to Unicaja in the third and final match of the quarterfinals of the Endesa League play-off. A defeat that means saying goodbye to a season full of obstacles and potholes, which he has seen To the Barca team play the last section of course with nine seniors players Due to the lesions.
With this context, it may seem understandable to fall before a Unicaja that has won four titles this season and that had 14 players in its template. However, Barça had won the game and the tie, with a 10 -point advantage in the absence of three minutes (nine to 90 seconds).
Joan Peñarroya's team had the match under control and kept Unicaja away, but the coach pointed an action that triggered in the Barca disaster: “There is a lack of Willy (Hernangómez) with technique and there you begin to twist everything. It is the fifth foul, we have to make rotation and we dismantle. We were playing very controlled. “
After this change, with 70-80 on the scoreboard, Unicaja closed the regulatory time with a partial of 14 to 4 in less than three minutes of playforcing an extension that would end up winning. With the elimination of Willy and the entrance of Jabari Parker, the defense began to suffer and the good attack situations disappeared, facilitating Malaga's comeback.
Summary of the season
This concrete end has been a summary of the season for Peñarroya. His team, in many situations, has managed to play the games and compete them, but In most of the tight encounters it has turned off at the endletting go some victories that he had in his hand.
Therefore, the technician believes that this comeback from Unicaja and the elimination of Barça explains the entire course: “It is the summary of a very hard season, in which too many things have happened to us And I have no reproach for the boys. The boys have given everything, a very generous effort, many of them are burst. “
Assuming the stratospheric effort that their 9 healthy players have made, Peñarroya was also critical of the final performance of the team: “The moment is screwed and it is hard to be eliminated in the quarterfinals. We escape a game of those that people say that if you play 100 times you lose 1. It is a face or cross, but as we had the game, we should not have reached it. “
Congratulate Unicaja
Despite the hardness of the moment, Peñarroya has admitted the great team that is Unicaja, congratulating the rival and the work they have doneboth during the season and in the series: “Congratulate them for the classification in a hard series. They are a positive and winning dynamic team. With a game they had very uphill they have believed.”
A congratulation with its own name, the one of Tyson Pérez, who had been without scoring 38 minutes of play and ended the regulation time with 9 points in his locker: “They have found Tyson that he has given energy and annotation, while we have been bad when we were controlling the game very well.”
