The Unicaja coach, Ibon Navarro, assured after drawing the Endesa League semifinals against Barça that “the series does not change much”
“We have maintained some good things and some outside players have appeared. We hope that others will join the next game”, said the coach from Vitoria
The Unicaja coach, Ibon Navarro, assured this Friday after drawing the semifinals of the Endesa League against Barça (79-88) that the series “does not change much”, since that the Barça team is capable of winning the next two games in Malagaalthough for this “they will have to kill them”.
“The series does not change much. We are talking about Barça. They can win both games at Carpenabut to do it he will have to kill us, because we are going to play it with the energy of today. They can beat us because they are very good, but they will have to run with us.”declared the coach of the Andalusian team.
Navarro analyzed that his team had good feelings from the start: “We started the game much better in terms of energy and defense. The sensations until the break were good, better than what the scoreboard reflected, with the feeling that we were playing how we wanted”.
“Barça was going to react”
“They have come out very successful at the beginning of the third quarter. You know that at some point they are going to react. We cannot think of winning at the Palau without suffering, but there the team has shown faith in what we were doing so as not to collapse before the partial and the environment”, He stood out about Barça’s comeback in the third quarter.
Unicaja was able to reverse the trend to take the victory: “We have recovered again and we have finished the third quarter with an important cushion of points that we managed to get an important victory for us”.
Navarro highlighted Ejim’s “spectacular third quarter” and listed some of the aspects in which his team improved regarding the defeat in the first match of the series.
“We have run a little more organized and we have been successful in the three-point shots. Today Carter has appeared and Kravish has been much better. We have kept some good things and some outside players have appeared. Let’s hope that the next game will be joined by others,” he settled.