Barça receives the newly promoted MoraBanc Andorra this Sunday at 12:30 p.m. after the ‘scare’ in Palencia
The Blaugranas won all 17 home games in the regular phase of the Endesa League and ‘Sato’ wants to repeat it
Barça recovered the Endesa League title last season in the second spell of a Sarunas Jasikevicius who left through the more or less big door after a new disappointment in the Euroleague Final Four and a large part of the blame for that success at the domestic level was on an insurmountable Palau Blaugrana.
The Barcelona team knew how to turn their court into a fortress that only failed once to complete an impressive home series of 21 wins and one loss (in the second semi-final match against Unicaja). Nobody was able to win in Barcelona in the regular phase (17-0) and Real Madrid lost twice in the final (3-0) and Valencia Basket once in the quarterfinals (2-0) and the aforementioned Malaga team (3-0).
In fact, Barça already got off to a good start at the Palau under the command of Roger Grimau at the Palau with a clear victory on the first day against Joventut (91-74) and This Sunday they face a new home clash against the recently promoted MoraBanc Andorra after last day’s ‘scare’ on the debutant’s court Zunder Palencia and after losing against Madrid for the second time this season.
Precisely for this reason Tomas Satoransky wanted to appeal to the strength of a Palau that resists upright while facing the Camp Nou changes its face completely. “Playing at home would have to be our strong pointlike last year, when we did not lose any home game (in the regular phase) of the ACB,” stressed the Czech.
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“It doesn’t have to be complicated (mentalize) after our experience in Palencia. The matches in the ACB are all quite difficult and it has to serve as something that cannot happen to us in the next matches. We have to take all our rivals very seriously,” stressed the Blaugrana point guard.
‘Sato’ valued very positively the steps forward that the team is taking after a summer marked by changes and with high morale after Thursday’s resounding victory against the two-time European champion Anadolu Efes (91-74). “The best thing is that we played much better and the atmosphere was also much better. We have to keep working and be aggressive in defense. We have to continue our pace. These games and training help us continue getting to know each other better,” he concluded. the former player in his second season of his second stage as a Barça player after six years in the NBA.