A difficult day to digest for a Barça that remains subdued and sad two days after saying goodbye to the Euroleague against Olympiacos, a wound that will take a long time to heal. In the midst of depression, Grimau’s team was not able to regain its spirits and also gave in to Unicaja, who stormed the Palau to confirm his extraordinary season. The Blaugrana are fighting for third place and the Andalusians for first. That is the sad reality of this Barça.
Nobody dared to reproach anything, neither to the players nor to the bench nor to the box in a Palau that presented more than half an inning and tried, as far as possible, to reach out to its team to help it get up. He didn’t get it.
The first play of the game was a Barça triple, but one of those that even hurts. Jabari Paker invented it with a defender on him, making it impossible not to remember his 0/7 against Olympiacos. Also Brizuela, unprecedented on Wednesday, was a starter and scored 8 points in a flash. More blood.
Barça had started strong, marking the first difference (19-6), but a fired-up Unicaja, recently champion of the Champions League, gradually equalized the forces. A lot of energy came out of the Andalusian side, the complete opposite of the Blaugrana, where there was no lack of desire but there was a lack of success and spirit.
Before the break, Barreiro gave the Andalusians the first advantage (40-42), anticipating the curves that lay ahead for an injured Barça. Kravish led the visitors into the final act (71-75) and Perry ruled with 8 seconds remaining, a period of time in which Barça gave the ball to Jabari Parker, who ended up being blocked by Ejim.
For its part, Baskonia beat UCAM Murcia at the Buesa Arena (94-79) and prevented Baxi Manresa from sealing its place in the playoffs. Pedro Martínez’s men, of course, continue to depend on themselves and if they win in Tenerife on the last day they will get into the fight for the title.
91. Barça (27 20 19 25): Satoransky (4), Brizuela (14), Kalinic (5), Parker (22), Vesely (9) -starting team-, Hernangómez (9), Rubio (13), Abrines (3), Da Silva (2), Laprovittola (2), Parra (0) and Jokubaitis (8).
92. Unicaja (20 24 23 25): Carter (16), Djedovic (2), Ejim (4), Osetkowski (9), Sima (2) -starting team-, Perry (9), Taylor (11), Kalinoski (12), Kravish (10), Thomas (9), Lima (6) and Barreiro (2).
Referees: Juan Carlos García González, Carlos Cortés and Sergio Manuel. no deleted They signaled a technical foul to local coach Roger Grimau (min.30).
Incidents: matchday 33 of the Endesa League played at the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona before 4,476 spectators.
