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As if the Catalans who had fallen asleep in the quarterfinals were already 20 points behind Malaga’s “Unicaja” in the first half – 9:29, so they were forced to keep their skins for the rest of the time.
Although Barça finally triumphed 103: 93 after overtime and drew a healthy hug and barely made it to the semi-finals, the team’s demanding coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius was certainly not satisfied with such a gracious performance.
“This tournament is a completely different kind of competition. In them everything revolves around survival and we survive until Saturday, but we have to improve our game a lot, because playing like this we will not beat the Basques,” said Sarah.
On this occasion, the Kaunas specialist did not regret his criticism and took responsibility for such a bad start.
“I’m sure I did something wrong while preparing the team for this tournament. We talked before the match that the last results of the opponents (Unicaja had lost ten games in a row -” Delphi “) mean nothing in such a tournament, but they don’t I think my words reach the players, “he admitted. .
He and his students only had 19 hours left until Friday’s semi-finals after a grueling fight, when their rivals will have almost 11 p.m. break, which may be a big factor on Saturday.
“We need to improve our discipline because we are making too many mental mistakes. We played recklessly, without defense, without strength and without contact, so we put ourselves in a very uncomfortable position. It seemed like we wouldn’t play on Saturday. But we gave a lot of strength and we suffered. Now we need to recover both physically and mentally. “Baskonia likes tough basketball, but Saturday will be a new day,” Š said. Jasikevičius.
🗨️ Saras Jasikevicius, on the micros of @we go: “The #CopaACB it is a tournament in which you have to survive and we have survived ” pic.twitter.com/kg2jZZn5ZK
– #CopaACB (@ACBCOM) February 12, 2021
Barcai scored more than half (55 of 103) in the big three: Cory Higgins 22, Nick Calathes 17, Nikola Mirotičius 16.
At that time, defender Darío Brizuela scored 33 points for Unicaja, who made a mistake 9 times.
We remind you that in the semifinals on Saturday, Real Madrid will face Lenovo from Tenerife (starting at 5:00 p.m.) and Barcelona will face national champion Vitorija Baskonia (starting at 8:00 p.m.), who will be represented by two Lithuanians. Rokas Giedraitis and Tadas Sedekerskis.
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