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Photo: ZUMA PRESS – Scanpix
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Barcelona’s Euroleague match in Vitoria, led by Šarūnas Jasikevičius, miraculously escaped at the end of the match, and the Catalan boss noted after the match that such matches are extremely rare.
Man of the match
Barcelona went to 10 points (61:71) 3 minutes before the end of the game, but came close to 1 point at the start of the last minute and won with 72:71 after the resentful errors of Baskonia.
“Sometimes our game didn’t look good,” Jasikevičius admitted. – We try to find solutions and in the end, I think we find the right mindset. Somewhere along the way we lost it. This is one of the games where you win and learn from them. You are happy and go home. Strange match.
Clearly, we are very happy with the victory. We don’t play our own basketball in the third and fourth quarters. We played with a lot of energy at the beginning of the game, but then Baskonia started to play better and we started to doubt. It can’t be.But winning with a really poor 3-point hit (33.3 percent) and lots of mistakes (19) is fine. We started the game with a good mentality, but then we had a lot of ups and downs.
If you think that a coach can say a lot, realize that it is very difficult. I can tell you what’s going on on the parquet: we can’t lose the balls, we don’t hit, we don’t roll back the balls in attack after imprecise shots … I’m trying to say what’s happening on the court and how we have to change that. Since we couldn’t score points, I’ve been looking for the right five, spending the best basketball players in attack: Kurica, Mirotičiai, Abrines and Heurtel. We needed to shoot points. I don’t know how we managed to win. What can I say? It only happens a few times. “
Triples released this season
Baskonia coach Duško Ivanovičius was upset by the excellent chance of winning the match.
“We have shown today that nothing is impossible. At some point, it seemed impossible to lose this match, but we have shown ourselves on the downside that it is possible. During the last attacks on defense because we did not have aggression, we did not take advantage of fouls, we made mistakes several times. Basketball is beautiful, when you already think that everything is over, it is not like that. We will continue to fight to make it impossible again, only this time on the positive side.
That is already happening. I am very, very angry. But what can I do? Now we just have to think about the next game, “Ivanovich said.
Barcelona have five wins and one failure in the Euroleague and share the top spot with Kaunas “Žalgiris”.
After four games, Baskonia are left with two victories and share 10-11 positions.
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