The Barça coach, Sarunas Jasikeviciuswarned of the visit of the ASVEL Villeurbanne, one of the bottom teams in lavEuroleague, recalling that, despite their classification, they have “the best defense” of the competition.
For this reason, the coach of the Barca team believes that this Friday “will not be a very nice game”, since ASVEL “is a team that always compete”.
“There are the veterans of a lifetime, as is the case of (Nando) of colorand then you have two guys who give a lot of war and a lot of personality to this team like (David) Lighty and (Charles) Kahudi”, he highlighted in the preview of the meeting.
In addition, Jasikevicius believes that ASVEL also has in its staff “with very interesting young people that he can make the leap to important teams in the coming years”.
At the already known drop of Sergi Martinez are added, for the duel against the French team, those of Alex Abrines Y Cory Higginsboth due to low back pain, but the Lithuanian coach will recover Sertac Sanli Y Nikola Kalinic.
Oscar da Silva did not train this Wednesday due to a flu process, but the Barça coach believes that they must overcome “viruses and injuries” by putting together a good performance tomorrow: “We have to think about how we should improve our defense and our ups and downs , because after losing the last match (against Monbus Obradoiro in the Endesa League), we have to win”.
for the escort Oriol PauliASVEL’s visit to the Palau Blaugrana is an opportunity “to recover sensations” after the stumble in the ACB and the hard party on the track of SUNRISE the past day.
“In Berlin we won, but it was difficult for us, and we want to continue growing. In situations like this, it’s time to give a step forward“, summarized.
