Barça He returned home with half of the task made and with a mission completed successfully, After imposing itself on Unicaja in Martín Carpena for 97-101 and sign up for the first point of the tie Finals of the Endesa League playoff.
With the clue factor snatched from the Malaga, now it is that the Barca club does not waste the treasure available: The first match-ball will take place next Friday, June 6 in a Palau Blaugrana that must burn to get the semifinals.
Jabari, faithful to the appointment with the annotation
Beyond the fact that the cohesion and resilience that this Barça have are worthy of admiration and supposes one of the great features that it has embodied Joan Peñarroya In his team, the victory in Malaga also left great news in three individual performances of three of the group's referents. Has stopped being news that Jabari parker be one of the leaders in the scoring of the Catalans. The power wing went to the 20 points, With four triples, to which he added five rebounds. The talent is still imposed on a selection of crazy and risky shot, and when the '22' Barça enters trance, it matters little and it serves that the rival puts his hand on his face.
Also outstanding performance also that of a Justin Anderson that in the carpena he went to the 16 goals. He matched his fourth maximum score of the season in the Endesa League and, although he failed the free kick that would have given the triumph to the team, he scored the first two to ensure the extension. There, the Barca forward, who ends contract at the end of the month, was the top scorer of his team, with six points. They had them with the Malaga fans, although later in the postpartid he praised the great work of the painting of Ibon Navarro. In addition, he left one of the playoff plays and the season, with a powerful mate with which he destroyed the hoop.
Justin Anderson, during the game against Unicaja / EFE
Pinter exhibited its best version
But Tuesday was the redemption party for a Kevin Punter That was sublime. The player, who was the protagonist in the last and unfortunate action that ended the elimination of the team in Euroleague in the fifth playoff game against Monaco, shone in the carpena and made it clear that what happened in the European competition is a thing of the past, and that if something is clear about it, it does not want to finish its first blush course in white.
The numbers against Unicaja
Pinter shone like the star that is, and the '0' Barça went to 21 points, the top gunner of the Catalan painting. It was also the most generous, con five assists, And although it was not very inspired from Triple (1/5), the New Yorker was tremendously concentrated from the personal line, and its temperance, serenity and success, allowed Barça to take the first point in the series.
Tyson Carter and Kevin Punter, in a Unicaja-Barça / ACB Photo – Mariano Pozo
Infallible from staff
Pinter signed an Immaculate 12/12 from the personnel line. The Barça outside did not fail when the score was more squeezed: he scored three free throws when Barça lost for 80-74 in the absence of two and a half minutes to finish the last quarter. He converted two free to put the 83-81 into the electronic and then in the extension he once again scored two more and did not forgive the additional 2+1 which served to raise the Catalan advantage to the five points (91-96) with which they practically liquidated the duel. In Endesa League, Pinter exceeds 90% success Thanks to the 88 total successes in 97 attempts.
Pinter signed 21 points against Unicaja, his third highest brand in the Endesa League / ACB Photo – Mariano Pozo
To a victory of the 'semis'
Now, and with a much more favorable scenario, for the one that was raised at the beginning of the playoff, Barça has much more feasible the pass to the 'semis'. To do this, he must have the best aúter, which in Malaga was exhibited with his third best scoring brand in the Endesa League. The future of the team in the assault for the title will depend, to a large extent, for the performance of the Barca outside.
