Baskonia and Fenerbahce start the second round facing their doubts
MADRID, Jan. 8 (SportsFinding) –
Kirolbet Baskonia will start the second round of the Euroleague receiving this Thursday (21.00) at Fernando Buesa Arena at Fenerbahce, another team that has failed to perform at the expected level and that holds more talent than indicated by its fourteenth position in the table .
Baskonia continues to get into its particular carousel this season, which experienced another strong swing last week. After the great European victory against Barça, the Basque team fell at home against Baxi Manresa and said goodbye to their options to play the Copa del Rey.
Marrado the first major goal of the season, Velimir Perasovic can focus on continuing to improve in the Euroleague, where his team is twelfth with a balance of 7-10, but only a victory of the 'playoff' due to the enormous equality it presents the middle area of the table.
One less victory has Fenerbahce, which comes from breaking a run of four consecutive losses in his visit to Olympiacos. The Turkish team is still looking for ways to straighten its poor performance and has just signed another signing, James Nunnally, who already knows the club and could debut in Vitoria.
Among the arguments for the optimism of Zeljko Obradovic, who still cannot count on Jan Vesely, are the good aim of his team in the perimeter (40% in triples, second best success of the Euroleague) and the great performance of Nando de Colo, surely the only one of his stars that is being saved.
The French outside will be the main man to score for Baskonia, who will again suffer the casualties of Luca Vildoza, Patricio Garino and Jayson Granger for this twenty-ninth Euroleague duel against the 'Fener', with balanced balance to date (14- 14).
DATA SHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
KIROLBET BASKONIA: Henry, Janning, Shields, Shengelia and Eric – possible initial quintet – Stauskas, Fall, Diop, Polonara, García, López and González.
FENERBAHCE: Sloukas, De Colo, Kalinic, Datome and Williams – possible initial quintet–; Muhammed, Mahmutoglu, Westermann, Duverioglu, Lauvergne, Nunally, Biberovic and Arna.
– ARBITRATORS: Boltauzer, Paternico and Mantyla.
– PAVILION: Fernando Buesa Arena.