The team from Malaga took the victory (79-88) in Barça’s first defeat at home this season
The azulgrana team could not match the intensity and hardness of the people from Malaga who regained the court advantage for the two games in Malaga
Barça lost at home to Unicaja (79-88) who took advantage of their great defensive intensity that Jasikevicius’s team could not match. The people from Malaga controlled the game from the start despite Barça’s attempts to turn it around with flashes from Laprovittola (19)
DATA SHEET
Endesa League
FCB
UNI
LINEUPS
Barcelona, 79
(18+19+20+22): Satoransky (7), Laprovittola (19), Abrines (1), Mirotic (6), Vesely (4)- starting five-, Sanli (7), Sergi Martínez (0), Kalinic (7), Jokubaitis (5), Abrines (1), Tobey (3), Kuric (11), nnaji (0).
Unicaja,88
(25+15+23+25): Perry (13), Barreiro (2), Kalinoski (13), Ejim (7), Kravish (13)- starting five-, Brizuela (5), Díaz (0), Djedovic (0), Sima (7), Osetkowski (6), Carter (19), Thomas (3).
Referees:
Carlos Peruga, Vicente Bultó, Rafael Serrano. Abrines, eliminated due to personal fouls
Incidents:
Second game of the Endesa League semifinal, at the Palau Blaugrana, before XXXXX spectators.
It will be necessary to win at least one game in Malaga if Barça wants to stay alive in the semifinal. It will be another war on Sunday.
Barça had a discouraging start. ORnicaja came out with a very aggressive defense and the blaugrana team couldn’t find a way to score. He failed his first eight pitches while the people from Malaga took a quick lead (1-10)
Saras had to stop the game to put together that horrible start, that led Ibón Navarro’s team to a maximum of 13 (1-14). The entry of Jokubaitis gave the team a bit of freshness, although Laprovittola’s doubts did not help either.
For Unicaja, Tyson Carter was inspired in attack and allowed Unicaja to continue commanding, despite Tobe’s first tripleand another one from Jokubaitis, although the control was from Malaga, very physical in defense and with a constant rate of changes to maintain that rhythm.
They hold on to the game
Barça tried to survive that bad start with points from Sanli, with an ankle injury from Tobeand, although Carter continued to do his thing and led his team to a first set of clear visiting color (18-25).
Laprovittola had a hesitant start but then improved
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Saras completely moved the team and entered better in the fourth, with the Turkish center contributing points along with Kalinicwhich led to the slow reaction of Barça, who got closer to one point after technique to Ibón Navarro (28-29).
But Unicaja continued to adhere to his script with a lot of physical contact and after a technique to Abrines, frustrated by fouls that were not whistled, the Málaga people caught air again with a 0-6 run (30-36). The worst news for visitors is that Perry, much more active than in the first game, committed his third foul.
Satoransky did not start the game well
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A triple by Kalinic, one of the highlights in the fourth (9), along with two actions by Kuric, who also attacked the Malaga hoop, He put Barça back in the game, but could not get ahead at halftime (37-40). We had to keep rowing to turn the game around in the second half.
Barcelona reaction
Carter was still ‘plugged in’ and kept Unicaja ahead (38-45), although Barça raised its defense and woke up Laprovittola from the triple. With two consecutive He managed to put Barça ahead and Mirotic finished off the reaction with a counterattack in the best moments of Barça for his maximum income (52-47) with a partial of 12-2.
Barça had managed to change the dynamics and it was time to deal a good punch to the rival. Although two lost balls allowed Unicaja to command again after Ejim’s triple (54-55) and with Laprovittola on the bench, with four fouls.
The duel returned to the hands of Unicaja who took advantage of the errors and slaps on one side of the field and the other with a 2-13 run (57-61) and Unicaja regained control with Perry finishing off the fourth with another basket (57-63 ). Missed opportunity for the Blaugrana who were going to play it all in the final quarter.
A real ‘war’
Unicaja once again dominated the duel (59-67) and with the fourth from Abrines. Saras had to resort to Laprovittola, and the Argentinian returned to pull Barça with a three-pointer (62-67), although scoring a point required receiving slaps everywhere, and not all pointed out by the referees.
In that guerrilla game, Unicaja felt very comfortable, and went back to 10 (64-74) with great success in shooting. Unicaja’s defense did not give air to Barça’s attack, and the first victim was Abrines, who committed the fifth and lost one of his offensive weapons.
And with so much contact, he was about to get involved with an intentional shot from Vesely to Kravish, which shot Unicaja’s lead up to a maximum of 18 (64-82) that left the duel sentenced many minutes before the end. Now the goal is to win at least one game in Malaga.