Baskonia lost their duel against Joventut, the host team, and was eliminated from the Cup
For the coach from Vitoria, in the second half, his team “neither played fluently nor finely, and we were dominated”
The coach of Cazoo Baskonia, Joan Peñarroya, attributed the defeat against Joventut (94-81) to the “very bad second half” played by his team, although he said he did not know “why” the discreet performance of his men after the match. rest.
The Vitoria coach wanted to “congratulate La Penya on the victory. I’m sorry for the game we played, especially for the fans who have come here.”
For Peñarroya, Baskonia’s performance was “far” from what the game required: “The team disconnected in defense midway through the second part and, in the third quarter, the staging of Joventut killed us”.
“Until now the team was competing well away from home. Today it has not been like that. They have been superior. Parra, who is with 20% in triples, has punished us a lot”, analyzed the coach.
In the second part, the Cazoo Baskonia “He neither played fluently nor finely, and we were dominated” by Joventut, as the Catalan coach lamented. “We gave them too many easy baskets and with those rival parameters it is very difficult to win in high-level basketball,” Peñarroya settled.