The Barça, to by Belgrade via Munich
Jasikevicius’s men want to take advantage of the first of two options to sentence the ‘playoff’ against Bayern for the ‘Final Four’
MADRID, 28 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Barça has in their hands to play the ‘Final Four’ in Belgrade, the semifinal on May 19 where Real Madrid awaits, in the fourth game of the ‘playoff’ against Bayern this Friday in Munich, where they already won on Wednesday to be the gates of the great goal.
Those of Sarunas Jasikevicius straightened the course with the arrival of the series to German lands to put the 2-1. Nikola Mirotic (25 points and a PIR of 31) and Nick Calathes (8 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists) sang the game of a Barça that had not been up to the Euroleague ‘playoff’ in the first two games in the Palau Blaugrana.
Bayern continues to be a fearsome team, with a lot of defense and success, although they will have to take them out now on the brink of elimination and against a Barça that cannot forgive. Despite having the lifeline of a hypothetical fifth game at home, the intention of the champion of the ‘Regular Phase’ is not to give more suspense to the series.
The culé squad, finalists last year, want to return to the ‘Final Four’ and fight for a title they haven’t won since 2010. It is the great challenge of the ‘Saras’ project, in his second year on the Barça bench, but first It’s time to end Bayern’s resistance. In addition to the leadership of Mirotic and Calathes, Barça needs to show off the season’s wardrobe again.
On Wednesday, Exum and Smits were at a high level, but ‘Saras’ also has Laprovittola with a sharp fang, and Kuric, Abrines, Davies or Sanli are yet to exploit the European challenge. Capable of assaulting the Palau, Andrea Trincheri’s team is in great danger, without connecting Weiler-Babb, Lucic and Rubit, plus the power of Hunter, Radosevic and Thomas, with the Audi Dome.
DATASHEET.
–TEAMS.
BAYERN MUNICH: Weiler-Babb, George, Lucic, Rubit and Hunter –possible starting five–; Thomas, Jaramaz, Obst, Sisko, Radosevic.
BARÇA: Calathes, Laprovittola, Exum, Mirotic and Davies –possible starting quintet–; Sanli, Jokubaitis, Kuric, Hayes-Davis, Martinez, Smits, Abrines, and Nnaji.
– ARBITROS: Lamonica, Pukl, Nikolic.
–PAVILLION: Audi Dome.