After playing 81 parties Combining all competitions, Barça put an end to a gray, disappointing season and will be marked by the cruelty with which the injuries were primed with a template that came suffocated and exhausted to the last weeks of the course, and that ended up falling before Unicaja in the rooms of Endesa League playoff end. In purely results, the campaign closes without titles for the second consecutive year, and with an angry and disenchanted social mass with the team of Joan Peñarroya. The confidence of the club in his coach is total, and after the final outcome in Malaga, the general manager of the section, Juan Carlos Navarro, He affirmed that the Egarense would serve the year of the contract he has signed and that he will lead the team next season.
To try to explain the outcome of a season in which the initial expectations have not been met, we must move to the beginning of the story. At the end of October, Nico Laprovittola suffered a serious knee injury that made him fall from the team. The Argentine, back to the base position, was the best game director for Peñarroya before the adaptation of Juan Núñez and the low performance of Tomas Satoransky. It was a sensitive leave both on and off the track, and a setback that began to wear out the team in the '1'. The Spanish international began to suffer the load of minutes and had to go through the operating room to solve some knee problems, while the Czech, for many months, was as the only pure base of the team.
Laprovittola's decline has done a lot of damage to the team that led to the signing of Net / FCB
The 'Fiasco' with the arrival of Net
Barça tried to reinforce the position with the arrival of Raul Neto. But the operation did not go well and in the few minutes in which he dressed the Barca elastic suffered two injuries. Arrivals such as Thomas Heurtel, Don 'Fatts' Russell and Marcelinho Huertas, But the club, suffocated by the 'Financial Fair Play' that affects all the athletes of the entity, decided to close the tap and not undertake that external signing so necessary and that so well would have come to the group. Without signings, Lady sarr He won prominence in Peñarroya's rotation, and became an increasingly important player in the schemes of the Culer coach. But Italian's plans went to try fortune in the United States, and his 'escape' with the season in progress and disobeying Barça, they struck the team. Sarr will continue his career in Duke, while Mathieu Grujicic (Ohio State) y Raul Villar (Charlotte) They will also play next season at American university basketball.
Joan Peñarroya giving instructions to Dame Sar / Dani Barbeito
The arrival of Chime tie To the Catalan capital and its great performance caused a great impact on European basketball. It was one of the signings with the greatest success of last summer, since the American stood out for his versatility in the '4' and in '5'. With the first physical problems of the season for Vesely, Metu became the pivot reference for Peñarroya, ahead of Willy Hernangómez y Youssoupha Fall. But again another misfortune, on March 25, with a serious injury to the Achilles tendon and left Jabari Parker as the only one '4' pure in the squad.
Thus the signings paid
Barça incorporated five new faces for this season, and two of them could not finish the course because of the injuries. As for its performance, Fall was expected to be more a practically unique pivot in the continent, above two meters and 20 centimeters. He set a good campaign stretch and at times he surpassed Hernangómez at the rotation. As to Justin Anderson, The American eaves has not set a bad year, something irregular in terms of annotation. With some more consistency in his defensive facet, Anderson could have finished convincing Barça for his continuity despite being an extra -community player. But in the Barça entity they were not entirely convinced, and the temperamental and extroverted forward will follow his career the next seasons in Dubai.
Justin Anderson played his last game with Barça in Malaga / ACB Photo – Mariano Pozo
Pinter, one of the great joys
There is no doubt that Kevin Punter It has been one of the great news of the season. The New York escort signed his best score (37 points) in the last game of the course, and his good adaptation to Spanish basketball caused Barça to accelerate his renewal, already signed until 2028. It is inevitable that in the memory that last action is left in Monaco, but the truth is that Pinter has acting as a scorer leader in the moments of greater cohesion in the group, and that if Barça has been able to reach the vast majority of the end of the games, it has been, in most, because of the American.
Kevin Pinter renewed his contract with Barça until 2028 / Dani Barbeito
Oted gold opportunities
Both with The Tenerife lagoon as with Monaco, It seemed that fate placed Barça to the most 'accessible' rivals to progress both in the Copa del Rey and in the Euroleague playoff. Even winning the first match of the qualifiers for the title of the Endesa League, against Unicaja, The stage that was drawn was really optimistic. But the three stumbling blocks in these competitions have meant a Hard blow both for the group and for a hobby that closes 24/25 without seeing a victory against Real Madrid. There are already eight consecutive triumphs of whitesalready difference from recent years, there will be no revenge option in the next Super Cup, a tournament that Barça will have to live from television.
Progress is expected in Peñarroya year II
At the game level, and with the commitment of the Catalan club in Joan Peñarroya, we must not expect excessive differences for the next season. Barça has not lacked points even though he has played without laprovittola, he has and vesely much of the season. It is a virtue and something that speaks well of profiles such as those of Darío Brizuela and Joel Parra, that in their second year they have grown up in terms of gallons and team responsibility. The defense has not been the priority of the Pizarra of the Barca coach, but in its second year of the project there should be some evolution in that regard. When the defensive gears were still tender, Barça fit 90 or more points against any team, and that typical phrase that “the defenses give championships” can be applied to the last two courses of the team.
