Barça was clearly surpassed by Unicaja in the second game and tied the quarter -final series. That was Friday. Now, This Sunday, June 8 from 6:30 p.m., the third and final game will be played in Martín Carpena in Malaga.
The sensations left by the Palau encounter were bad, but that matters little at the level of the tie. In the first game, Barça won in the extension and with comeback included (97-101) while Unicaja passed over the Barca in Barcelona (59-81). Both victories added a point in the series and the third match will start from scratch.
The series is matched
There is little time to manage and digest the painful defeat, but Barça must make a reset. No matter how much difference there would be on the scoreboard, Unicaja's victory matched the quarterfinal tie, leaving everything to decide in a last game. A meeting in which it will be almost irrelevant winning 30 or 1, only the victory will import.
Barça must change the image if you want to win in Malaga / Javi Ferrándiz | SPORT
This is something that Joan Peñarroya had very clear after losing in the Palau Blaugrana: “You have to be smart. This is basketball, it is a play-off The tie. The one who wins continues and goes to the semifinals. “
However, with less than 48 hours between the second and third meeting and trip included in Malaga, The team accumulates physical wear that adds to the mental wear of such a forceful defeat. Therefore, he wanted to focus his efforts on recovery: “We are tired, but we will have to be with our best mentality and spirit.”
Best version of all
Likewise, there is one thing that is clear about the workforce, the coaching staff and any Barça fan. If the team wants to win at Martín Carpena, the Sunday version must be totally opposite to Friday'sin the words of the Barca coach: “We will have to be solid behind, control their career situations and control everything that exhausted us very easily. And in attack evidently play far from what we have done today.”
And is that, With 59 points in favor, Barça made the worst score of the season, both in domestic competition and in Euroleague. The American trio (Pinter, Parker and Anderson) added 57 points in La Victoria in Malaga, while on Friday they stayed in 21 and with a very bad shooting letter.
But not only them, Barça will need the other 6 seniors of the first team if you want to have options with Real Madrid in the semifinals. It is clear that Peñarroya's team arrives with the reservation but If you have to fall in Malaga, that is with one of the slogans used by the club in its networks: “The effort is unnegotiable”.
