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Barcelona (1-0), led by Šarūnas Jasikevičius, started the Spanish ACB championship with a difficult victory.
Vice-champions of Spain at home 89:86 (18:23, 27:21, 26:22, 18:20) broke Burgos CB Miraflores’s team (0-1).
2 minutes before the end of the game, Nick Calathes launched a one-handed shot and increased Barça’s lead to 3 points (84:81). After a long time, the hosts, taking advantage of the confusion, discovered Nikolas Mirotičius, who was free under the basket, who scored easy points and further increased the advantage of “Barcelona” – 86:81.
With 32 seconds remaining, Barcelona led 86:83, but the referees awarded Jasikevičius a technical foul, and after a few moments Alex Renfroe made a successful foray to the basket and tied the score – 86:86.
The Catalans had 18.7 seconds to make a decisive attack. Jasikevičius entrusted the attack to Adam Hang, who managed to provoke the opponent’s foul. Hungary scored just a second free kick and gave Barcelona a slim lead (87:86).
The CB Miraflores basketball players had 5.9 seconds left, but during the decisive attack, the guests won a foul in the attack, and strategist Joan Peñarroya was disqualified for the emotions shown.
In the end, Alex Abrines hit both free throws, ensuring Barcelona’s victory.
Mirotičius, who played impressively, scored 22 points (3/4 doubles, 4/6 trit., 4/4 penalty) in 30 minutes, bounced 10 and took 3 balls, blocked 1 shot, made one mistake at a time , caused 3 fouls and scored 35 utility points. .
Right after the start of the game, Jasikevičius did not abstain, turning emotionally to his students after a poor start for the team.
“Two meetings, three meetings, is one minute of rest not enough for you!? Not enough for you?” The strategist said loudly to the team.
Oriola and Abrines also contributed greatly to Barcos’ victory. The latter scored 22 points (1/2 double, 5/6 trit., 5/5 penalty) in 28 minutes, bounced 5 balls, made 2 assists, caused 4 fouls and scored 28 utility points.
At that time, Oriola had 20 points (8/10 doubles, 4/8 penalties), 11 rebounds, 6 fouls provoked and 26 utility points.
The trio Mirotičius, Abrines and Oriola scored 64 of the 89 points “Barcelona”.
In the first half, the hosts were behind at 11:21, but the much more successful second half allowed the Barça team to take a long break with 45:44.
Jasikevičius’s students took the lead in the third half, when Oriola scored 4 points in a row, Mirotičius scored three points and Barcelona sped up 10-0 and gained a 12-point lead – 71:59.
However, the guests responded in the same section and had 2 points of Barça advantage left before the start of the last quarter (71:73).
„Barcelona“: Nikola Mirotičius (3/4 dvit., 4/6 trit., 10 atk. Kam., 35 naud. Bal.) Ir Alexas Abrinesas (5/6 trit., 28 naud. Bal.) Po 22, Pierre’as Oriola 20 (8/10 dvit., 11 atk. Kam., 26 naud. Bal.).
CB Miraflores: Vitor Benite 18 (4/6 diat., 7/7 fines), Ken Horton 17 (4/5 dvit., 3/5 trit.), Dejan Kravič and Jordan Sakho 9 each.
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