Barça suffers to overcome Marc Gasol’s Girona

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It was a reunion of friends, the return of many exes to the Palau Blaugrana: Aito, Barton, Eric Vila, Sorolla, Figueras, Oriola (honored despite his poor start) and Marc Gasolmuch applauded. But it was only on paper. The Girona of Marc Gasol demanded the most barca to take the victory and showed that the will is that his status as ACB is not just temporary (72-69). Vesely and Higgins They gave the azulgrana team the consistency so that it would not break in the final arreón of the team from Girona.

The team of Jasikevicius He wanted to dose himself to ensure victory. Barely 48 hours after facing the Fenerbahce, He tried to preserve the energy of his starters and give a lot of minutes to the second unit, and that led him to go through some trouble at the end to secure the victory in a fourth quarter to forget, in which he only added seven points.

the box of Aito faced the meeting with the idea of ​​competing and although the BarcHe opened important margins in some phases (65-47, m. 29), did not lower his arms, in line with all the Madrid coach’s teams, and continued to persist until the outcome was almost a toss-up.

many rotations

The Girona took advantage of his rival’s lack of tension to set the pace with Colom and Marc Gasol already starting. The initial 0-6 and 9-15 after two minutes was the best test of the attitude of each other. until Jasikevicius he did not move the bench, the azulgrana team did not find the necessary extra intensity.

With the output of Abrines and above all of Vesely, Barça’s defense began to work, to close the rebound and the team found easy points on the counterattack, which, together with a good run from the triple, led to a 14-2 run that allowed it to recover the initiative. The Girona it also lost consistency as soon as the rotations began.

Prominence of Colom

With Marc Gasol in command of operations endures comparisons. But the team of Aito he suffers a lot when he leaves the schemes and that drop in tension was taken advantage of by the barca to comfortably dominate, distribute minutes and open up an interesting margin at the break (50-38), with the prominent role of Oscar daSilva, who went to the locker room with 15 points and finished with 16 and 14 rebounds, seven offensive.

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The Girona maintained confidence, from the good management of Colom, one of the players who tried to vindicate himself on the Barça pitch. As soon as the barca took his foot off the accelerator, the dashboard Aito reduced differences (54-46, min.25) and the azulgranas were forced to give a new push (65-47, min.29).

The prominence of Marc Gasol in the final stretch, however, he ended up putting the Girona in the fight (68-63, min.37) and forced the barca to put on the overalls since Higgins and Vesely assume gallons to prevent the surprise from being consummated.

FC Barcelona, ​​72 – Basketball Girona, 69

FC Barcelona: Satoransky (3), Laprovittola (3), Paulí (2), Da Silva (16), Sanli (1) -initial team-, Vesely (14), Kalinic (6), Abrines (8), Higgins (13), Jokubaitis (4), Caicedo (-) and Nnaji (2).

8 of 26 triples (Da Silva, 3), 38 rebounds, 13 offensive (Da Silva, 14), 19 assists (Jokubaitis, 6)

Basketball Girona: Colom (13), Taylor (12), Vila (4), Prkacin (6), Gasol (9) -initial team-, Fjellerup (8), Figueras (9), Miletic (8), Oriola (-), Hanzlik (-), Garino (-) and Sorolla (-).

7 of 19 triples (Colom, 3), 34 rebounds, 9 offensive (Gasol, Fjllerup, 6), 14 assists (Colom, 4)

partial: 23-19; 27-19; 15-12; 7-19



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