Barça wants to transfer all the pressure to Unicaja

Barça and Unicaja meet today with the same protagonists, at the same time and on the same stage. But the game will hardly resemble Wednesday’s. Not because it’s not going to be tight or competitive, but because both teams have learned several lessons from the first game. And whoever best applies them, whoever best adapts, will probably be the winner. In the end, that’s what it’s all about in the five-game series. The weight of the coaches, the tactical variants and the surprises can be decisive.

The Catalans can be very satisfied with their first half, especially their defense and his ability to dwarf opposing outsiders. There was no game there. In static and from the outside shot Unicaja was manifestly inferior. On the other hand, they cannot be happy with those intangibles that almost cost them the game. The fight, the intensity, the rhythm… Unicaja came to have a shot to force overtime when it had been trailing by 17. Those disconnections that have affected Jasikevicius’s team so much were seen again on Wednesday despite the fact that they retained the victory. With the 1-0 there are already 19 ACB games, all played to date, without losing at home. Little joke.

The work of Unicaja in the first game should not be detracted from, far from it. It went wrong, away from his identity and took advantage of the ‘Barça downturn’. But he also provoked it. He was much superior when he was fast, when Sima cut, when they were able to run. It is nothing new, but it is good news in a Malaga key. They lacked very little to take the game. The feeling was that if they had reacted before the break or had been more accurate outside (19 percent in triples) they could have made it 0-1 in the tie.. Perry was also missed, completely canceled out by Barcelona: two points, five fouls and a PIR of zero. He ended up deranged. But the past has passed and nothing needs to be done about it, so it’s time to focus on today’s duel.

Without injuries in the first game, the physical factor can be decisive in the second. Both teams made a great effort, but there the advantage could fall to the Barça side. In the first place because their audience covers them, which is always a plus, but secondly because they have a longer and more prepared rotation. For Barça, playing 48 hours apart is nothing new. They have done it all season.

THIS IS HOW THEY ARRIVE

barca

Unicaja

TEMPLATES

	pos.	Height	Age
twenty-one Alex Abrines	AND	198	29
22 Cory Higgins	TO	196	33
55 give me sarr	TO	198	17
46 james naji	P	208	19
6 Jan Veseley	P	213	33
24 Kyle Kuric	AND	193	33
23 Mike Toby	P	213	28
twenty Nicholas Laprovittola	B.	188	33
10 Nikola Kalinic	TO	202	31
33 Nikola Mirotic	PA	208	32
3 Oriol Pauli	TO	201	29
1 oscar da silva	TO		24

	pos.	Height	Age
9 Alberto Diaz	TO	188	29
6 Augusto Lima	P	206	31
8 Dario Brizuela	B.	188	28
Four. Five david kravish	P	208	30
1 Dylan Osetkowski	TO		26
7 Jonathan Barreiro	PA	205	26
55 kendrick perry	AND		30
17 Mario Saint Supery	B.	190	17
22 Melvin Ejim	TO	198	32
12 nihad djedovic	TO	196	33
4 Tyler Kalinoski	AND	193	30
eleven tyson carter	AND	193	25
10 Will Thomas	PA	203	36