Barça forgets the defeat against Madrid with a win in Girona (73-84)

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  • The Barça team adds its eighth consecutive victory in the ACB thanks to the success of the trident made up of Laprovittola, Mirotic and Jokubaitis.

Barça left the defeat against him behind Real Madrid in the Euroleague with a hard-fought victory against Girona in the Endesa League (73-84), this Saturday in the pavilion of fontajau and with an outstanding performance by Nico Laprovittola (19 points), Rokas Jokubaitis (17) and Nikola Mirotic (16).

Saras Jasikevicius’s team shifted the pressure to Madrid, who must win in Manresa this Sunday to continue co-leader. the box Aíto García Reneses and Marc Gasol, with 23 points of Kameron Taylor, ended a great streak of four wins. Although he gave a good image and will continue far from relegation.

Barça sought to command from the start. Girona was 59 seconds ahead on the scoreboard (8-6), but only scored four points from minute 4 to 10 and the visitors made the most of their losses (8 in 10 minutes) to gain distance with a partial from 2-16 and a maximum income of 12 points (10-22).

taylor ubiquitous

Jasikevicius’ team was superior both in the paint (6 points for 14 in the first quarter) and beyond the three-point line (0/4 for 2/8, the work of Laprovittola and Mirotic). the duel seemed well on track for the Catalans, and jokubaitis he reached 10 points after 15 minutes of play (21-30).

But Girona staged a reaction that made Fontajau stand up, with a 15-5 lead and under the leadership of a ubiquitous taylor (13 points at halftime, 11 from 10′ to 20′). With a surprised and erratic Barça, Aíto’s team became strong under the basket (12 rebounds to 4 in the second quarter) and arrived to the equator ahead: 36-35.

reaction with triples

The local advantage reached four points at the start of the second half (41-37), but Barça woke up. Y recovered the initiative based on triples (48-56): 2/2 from Mirotic, who made four of his first five shots from three, 2/2 from Laprovittola (10 points from 20′ to 30′) and 1/1 from Satoransky.

Barça closed the third quarter with a nine-point margin (53-62) and opened the fourth period with two triples in a row from Laprovittola (56-68), the fifth and sixth of his personal account, to leave the game seen for sentencing and turn the remaining minutes into a process to distribute minutes.

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73 – Basketball Girona (12+24+17+20): Colom (12), Taylor (23), Garino (-), Miletic (4), Gasol (9) -starting five-; Hill (6), Prkacin (4), Fjellerup (-), Sorolla (5), Figueras (7), Vila (1) and Hanzlik (2).

84 – Barcelona (22+13+27+22): Laprovittola (19), Satoransky (7), Kalinic (6), Mirotic (16), Vesely (6) -starting five-; Jokubaitis (17), Da Silva (2), Sanli (4), Abrines (2), Kuric (2), Nnaji (-), Paulí (3).



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