The Barcelona team has authoritatively conquered its second ACB in three seasons after beating Real Madrid in the grand final
Barça, which closed the regular season undefeated at the Palau, has signed an Endesa League to remember
The FC Barcelona has been proclaimed Endesa League champion after surpassing with authority the real Madrid in the grand finale of the competition. The Barcelona team has signed up for its second ACB in three seasons and closes the course in the best possible way.
Sarunas Jasikevicius and its players have had to make the most of it to win back the league title, in one season, in the ACB, marked by the equality and the battle that so much baskonia as Madrid They planted the Catalans throughout the regular season.
In SPORT, we recover the most outstanding moments in the Barça key of a season to remember in which the Endesa League has been reconquered.
Undefeated at the Palau throughout the regular season
It has gone quite unnoticed, but the truth is that FC Barcelona did not know defeat in the 17 games it played at the Palau Blaugrana throughout the regular season. For the rivals, visiting the Barça stadium was something similar to going to the dentist, and despite the fact that Barça suffered in some duels, in the end the outcome of all the matches was the same. In the regularity tournament, Barça made the Palau a impregnable fort.
5-0 in ACB Classics
The certain thing is that the Barça has shown intractable against the white team in the Endesa League, and closes a season in which he has not managed to get Chus Mateo and his players to score at least one victory. 78-87 and 97-82 in regular season, and 97-88, 86-85 and 82-93 in the playoff final. A authority that Sarunas Jasikevicius’s team has been able to extend in this final stretch of the season and that has earned them the Endesa League.
How to tancar a first part (By: @JanVesely24) pic.twitter.com/Px0PfPoJTM
— Barça Basket (@FCBbasket) June 18, 2023
Victory in Vitoria to certify the first place
Before the Euroleague Final Four dispute, FC Barcelona faced a test of maximum demand, visiting the Buesa Arena to face the Baskonia. The match was a lethal duel for first place in the regular season, and with a win for the Catalans, it was guaranteed. Jasikevicius and his players offered a great version and prevailed by 84-91, a victory sealed in a great third quarter (19-28), and in a match in which Nico Laprovittola and Alex Abrines they went up to 18 points each.
Mirotic’s seven triples in the quarterfinals against Valencia Basket
He Barcelona captain started the Endesa League playoff with doubts after his weak performance against Real Madrid in the semifinals of the Euroleague Final Four, but Nikola Mirotic was able to put the bad feelings behind him and find his best game and exhibit a lethal hit. In the first quarterfinal match against Valencia Basket, the Barca ’33’ ‘destroyed’ the Taronja from the line of 6.75, converting seven of the 10 triples who tried.
🔥 NIKOLA MIROTIC’S HAND IS CLEAR
He has already been 7⃣ TRIPLE and is about to make history in the #PlayoffLigaEndesa!
📺 @MovistarPlus#PlayoffLigaEndesa#ReadyToRomperlapic.twitter.com/rUBGYd6BUC
— Endesa League (@ACBCOM) May 29, 2023
Mirotic, an ‘MVP’ performance against Obradoiro
Barça hosted Obradoiro on matchday 32 of the Endesa League, and claimed victory by 94-77 in a duel in which the partials in the second (20-11) and third quarter (33-18) were lethal. Great ‘guilt’ of it had a Nikola Mirotic who before the Galicians went to the 27 points with four triples, 10 rebounds and three assists for a total PIR of 40. With the performance against Obradoiro, the Hispanic Montenegrin was six credits away from his best historical record (46 in 2012 in a Valladolid-Real Madrid match).
Dame Sarr and Kasparas Jokucionis, two more than exciting debuts
The great intensity of a season that has touched on 90 games has meant that Sarunas Jasikevicius has had to rotate his squad, and thanks to this, the debuts of two of the pearls most interesting of the azulgrana academy: the Italian shooting guard give me sarr (2006) debuted before Bilbao Basket at the Palau Blaugrana on January 22. After playing a few seconds, he returned to play a few more against Gran Canaria, and against Fuenlabrada, he took advantage of, and in what way, the six and a half minutes that Saras gave him: eight points in an immaculate 4/4 from the field. For his part, Kasparas Jokucionis, Lithuanian base also born in 2006, debuted on April 19 in Grenade, where he was able to score a triple.
🔥 Debut in #LigaEndesa and put a triple on the board?
This is how KASPARAS JAKUCIONIS has presented himself in society!
At 16 years and 10 months, he becomes the third youngest player to make his debut with the jersey of the @FCBbasket #ReadyToRomperla pic.twitter.com/wgbm9ERHDH
— Endesa League (@ACBCOM) April 19, 2023
The most comfortable victory, +37 against Fuenlabrada
Barça took advantage of the superiority over the Madrid team, which has fallen in category, to sign up the most resounding victory of the season. Jasikevicius’ men had no mercy and took the game by 101-64, achieving a final +37 on the scoreboard. In that duel, the Barca top scorer was a Kyle Kuric who got 22 points.
The reunion with Marc Gasol
One of the most emotional and enjoyable moments of the entire season has been the reunion that occurred between barca and Marc Gasol, after his return to the Endesa League 14 years after heading to the NBA. On his return to the Palau, Marc signed 9 points and captured 6 rebounds, while in Fontajau, the center from Sant Boi repeated the same score. Even so, Barça scored the two wins: 72-69 and 73-84.