The victory against Fuenlabrada seals Barça’s best league start

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The Barça, with an eye on the Euroleague match next Thursday on the leader’s court, Armani Milan, remains undefeated in the Endesa League after winning this Sunday at the Palau Blaugrana at Urbas Fuenlabrada 79-69 after a clash in which the Catalans did not give their rival a chance in the second half.

The Barça team, the best defense in the league (68 points on average) stopped the best attack, the Fuenlabrada (86.6) thanks to Barça’s defensive improvement in the second half and a 14-2 run at the beginning of the last quarter (71-52). With their victory, the team of Jasikevicius has equaled, with eight victories, his best league start in 27 years, specifically on October 1, 1994 (94/95 season) with Aíto García Reneses on the bench.

The Barça coach gave rest to Nick Calathes and recovered Pierre Oriola, while in Fuenlabrada, Josep María Raventós, without the Brazilian Leo Meindl is Christian Eyenga, he presented his rival with a quick game a changing defense from man to zone.

Barça, through Nico Mirotic y Cory Higgins opened the gap quickly (12-6, m.5) although the Fuenlabreños reacted well with a partial of 0-7 (12-13, m.6) with success in the triple. Kyle Kuric, with seven points in three minutes, he relaunched Barça who managed to go up at the end of the quarter (21-19).

The visitors, with triple success by Jovan Novak and good defense dominated the middle of the second quarter (28-34, m.17). The return of Mirotic, after a time of Jasikevicius and Davies’ effectiveness in attack, together with a step forward from the Barça defense, led to a draw (34-34).

Defensive upgrade

The Barça raised lines in defense at the beginning of the third quarter and in attack it was nourished of balls to the low post for Brandon Davies. The Fuenlabrada held up well through Kyle Alexander and triples, two followed by Kwan Cheatham (42-44,m.24).

Nico Laprovittola He started to score from the 6.75 line, but the Nigerian’s third foul Omi Emegano upset the visiting defense (47-44, m.25). What’s more, Jokubaitis relieved Laprovittola and increased the pace of play while Higgins y Kuric They opened a gap (53-46, m.29) and it was difficult for Fuenlabrada to score.

At 57-50 he entered the fourth quarter, which did not start well with S’s fourth fouland Armand and nearby baskets of Smits y Sertaç Sanli (61-50, m.31). Raventós stopped the game to try to make his team react in attack.

The reaction did not come and Jokubaitis, a nightmare for the visiting defense, placed 67-52 (m.33) on the scoreboard. Things did not change and Roland Smits placed the electronic at 71-52 (m.35) after a partial of 14-2, which already turned the last minutes into a procedure.

“We came out a bit bad but we knew how to react after the break and stop one of the best attacks in the league,” he explained Jasikevicius when finished. “For me now the victories or defeats are not important, the really important thing is to keep improving to get to the decisive moments well and I think we still haven’t improved everything I want,” he added.

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FC Barcelona: Laprovittola (10), Higgins (13), Sergi Martínez (4), Mirotic (7), Sanli (4) -initial quintet-. Davies (6), Kuric (12), Jokubaitis (11), Smits (6), Hayes (2), Orihuela (2) and Caicedo (2).

Urbas Fuenlabrada: Novak (11), Armand (2), Emegano (10), Cheatham (12), Alexander (13) -initial quintet-, Ristic (6), Samar (2), Vicedo (5), Bagayoko (-), López (-), Chema González (6) and Macoha (2).



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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