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Barça (4/1) will be invited to the Buesa Arena, which hosts Rokas Giedraitis, Tadas Sedekerskis and the entire Baskonia de Vitoria (2/1).
The Catalans had already faced the Basques in the Spanish championship there less than two weeks ago, when Duškas Ivanovičius’s students triumphed 82:71.
Not only that, on Tuesday Š. Jasikevičius had to swallow the second half of losing bitterness in the ACB league, when the team came back empty and from Murcia, where UCAM basketball players lost 73:77.
It is these failures that a Lithuanian specialist tries to use as a catalyst before Friday’s duel.
“We are angry about the loss in Murcia. We recently played in Vitoria and it wasn’t good for us either. So I think the motivation for the Baskonia match should be the highest.
First of all, we must not allow them to run into counterattacks, to choose “easy” points. We have to play much more intensely than last time, “said Š. Jasikevičius.
On this occasion, the guests can benefit from the fact that as of Wednesday in the whole of Spain the presence of spectators will no longer be allowed in the stands of sports competitions. Until then, Baskonia, like Valencia or Joventut de Badalona, had received a limited number of fans in their arena during international matches.
At that time, Rim Kurtinaitis, coached by the Moscow region Chimki (0/5), will be looking for his first wins this season of the Euroleague in his living room by hosting Crvena Zvezda from Belgrade (2/2).
Before the duel, the Lithuanian strategist hinted that the Russian team is already getting rid of the coronavirus crisis and trauma.
“It will be difficult, but we have nowhere to retire. We must win playing at home. Yesterday I was happy because we were able to work at a high level for the first time this season in training. Almost all the players came together, the energy level immediately rose. “The guys showed adequate desire. I think now each training will get better and better. I hope we will transfer this progress to match mode as well,” commented R. Kurtinaitis.
Chimki will fight the Serbs on Friday at 7:00 p.m., Barcelona and Baskonia will fight from 9:30 p.m. Lithuanian time.
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