Satoransky, the total player

This is precisely what Barça was thinking about when they signed Tomas Satorasnky in the summer. At the age of 31, the Czech ended his adventure in the NBA (which lasted from 2016 to 2022). and returned to the Old Continent to strengthen a squad that continues to aim, of course, at the Euroleague. In the background, there is also the domestic championship, which the Barça team now leads alone (20-4) at the expense of what Real Madrid and Baskonia do this Sunday, the other two members of the trio that dominates the ACB with an iron fist. victory in the day of the derbies It came before a Joventut that faded away as the minutes passed. Those of Badalona became smaller, while Satoransky became bigger. And there, the locals finished killing the game in front of their audience, in the Palau, and with the authority that is required of them.

Satoransky scored Barca’s first two points to equalize Joel Parra’s opening basket in a harbinger of things to come. Joventut started unruly and the locals did not hit from the outside and with great insistence on the error (3 of 14 in triples in the first period), but the Barca defense prevailed and became strong until 18-13 with which the first quarter ended. Barça improved afterwards: in the next 10 minutes they attempted half as many three-pointers as in the initial period (2 of 7) and focused on attacking the area (5 of 5 on 2-point shots) and drawing free kicks (5 of 5 on shots free). The result was extended to the break (39-30), but those of Carles Durán were still alive, something that they maintained thanks to Andrés Feliz who multiplied to be the best on his team (15 points at the end, with 3 rebounds and 3 assists).

In the third quarter, it was Satoransky’s time; but before, Nikola Mirotic made his appearance: 7 consecutive points (10 at the end of the match), two baskets from two and a triple, so that the result went from 44-36 to 51-38. First bite. The second was already from the Czech, emboldened when worse came to Joventut, who rowed to 55-44 and was still alive, although always in tow. Two consecutive triples left the issue at 61-46: they were 15 ahead, a slab already too big to overcome away from home and against one of the most complete and fearsome squads in Europe. Barça reached 67-51 in the last quarter and an unsportsmanlike game that Feliz converted with a subsequent triple by Kyle Guy gave the last ounce of emotion to the game: 72-60.

It was a mirage: a well-requested timeout with anger included from an angry Sarunas Jasikevicius motivated Sertac Sanli, the other great man of the game (16 points, 6 rebounds and a PIR of 23 with a perfect 3 of 3 on three-pointers) to score from abroad and deliver a just sentence. The best team won, and the final result could not even be made up by the visitors: 87-71. Satoransky still had time to make an anthological mate. He scored from all sides. He did everything. And he finished with 19 points, 3 rebounds and 5 passes to the basket: a PIR of 27. The hero of the party. The man that Barça needs. the total player.

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Statistics

13 Thomas Satoransky
twenty Nicholas Laprovittola
5 Sertac Sanli
twenty-one Alex Abrines
33 Nikola Mirotic
23 Mike Toby
10 Nikola Kalinic
6 Jan Veseley
31 Rokas Jokubaitis
22 Cory Higgins
3 Oriol Pauli
46 james naji

Statistics

	Min	pts	RT	RO	DR	Ast	Per	rec	Tap	T1	T2	T3	FR	CF	Val
13 Thomas Satoransky	26	19	3	1	2	5	2	2	0	0/0	5/5	3/5	2	0	27
twenty Nicholas Laprovittola	24	5	4	1	3	5	1	0	0	2/2	0/1	1/6	4	1	9
5 Sertac Sanli	19	16	6	2	4	1	1	0	0	1/1	3/3	3/3	2	1	23
twenty-one Alex Abrines	19	7	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2/2	1/1	1/4	2	3	4
33 Nikola Mirotic	fifteen	10	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	1/1	3/4	1/2	2	2	12
23 Mike Toby	24	7	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0/0	2/2	1/3	0	4	7
10 Nikola Kalinic	18	5	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0/0	1/1	1/4	3	0	5
6 Jan Veseley	17	4	4	0	4	2	1	1	1	0/0	23	0/0	0	4	6
31 Rokas Jokubaitis	fifteen	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2/2	2/4	0/2	2	0	4
22 Cory Higgins	eleven	5	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	5/5	0/1	0/2	3	2	4
3 Oriol Pauli	3	2	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0/0	1/1	0/0	0	0	0
46 james naji	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1/2	0/0	0/0	1	1	0

Youth Badalona

Statistics

44 Joel Parra
10 Vladimir Brodziansky
88 Ante Tomic
16 Guillem Vives
9 kyle guy
35 Simon Brigander
22 happy andres
4 pau ribas
1 Yannick Kraag
2 Pep Busquets
13 Leonardo Okeke
14 Albert Ventura

Statistics

	Min	pts	RT	RO	DR	Ast	Per	rec	Tap	T1	T2	T3	FR	CF	Val
44 Joel Parra	30	9	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	0/0	3/8	1/3	0	0	8
10 Vladimir Brodziansky	26	7	8	4	4	0	0	1	1	1/1	3/6	0/1	3	0	16
88 Ante Tomic	22	eleven	5	3	2	4	2	1	0	3/4	4/12	0/0	5	2	12
16 Guillem Vives	twenty	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0/0	1/1	0/0	0	3	1
9 kyle guy	26	13	3	1	2	1	3	1	1	4/4	3/6	1/7	2	4	5
35 Simon Brigander	22	6	9	6	3	0	1	0	0	2/2	2/9	0/0	2	3	5
22 happy andres	twenty-one	fifteen	3	1	2	3	0	0	0	4/4	4/6	1/2	4	4	18
4 pau ribas	16	4	2	1	1	2	1	2	0	23	1/5	0/2	1	2	0
1 Yannick Kraag	6	4	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	2/2	1/3	0/1	1	1	1
2 Pep Busquets	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	0	1	1
13 Leonardo Okeke	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/1	0/0	0	1	-2
14 Albert Ventura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0/0	0/0	0	0	0