BARCELONA, Jan. 13 (SportsFinding) –
Barça coach Svetislav Pesic said on Monday that on the Maccabi Tel Aviv track they can improve their “pride, concentration and competitiveness” if they achieve a victory that ends the three-game losing streak in four team matches, between Euroleague and Endesa League, although it has qualified that its players are well and prepared for a challenge that “motivates” them.
“It motivates playing in a pavilion where everyone will be against us and our team. It can improve our pride, our concentration and our competitiveness, in one on one and in rebounds. And in doubting and believing in us, we need it now because we have always demonstrated always have good character, “Pesic told the media.
Barça, which in Europe comes from losing against Baskonia and Anadolu Efes Istanbul, seeks to overcome a Maccabi that is fit and more at home. “He has won all his home games so far. He always has a full pavilion, and with fans who have been fighting and helping since the beginning of the game. And they deserve that help from the fans, because this season they play great basketball,” he said. .
“It's an athletic team, with a very clear concept of defense and attack, a very tough game is waiting for us. For us, it was better to go to Tel Aviv with a sense of victory, but we didn't win Efes, although we played well. I hope. Tomorrow we give our maximum to play at our limit, “added veteran coach Blaugrana.
However, he believes that “if you have no health problems and are physically fit, the mentality is fine, too.” “We have to think about improving our game and all the details of the game in defense and attack, but you need to be physically well if you have to play so many games. And with additional motivation and more concentration,” he argued.
For his part, the player Pau Ribas does not consider that the last two defeats, three in four games, affect the morale of the group but should lead them “to work better, to do things better, to be more supportive and have a extra effort, all positive things. ” “We have experience to know that two defeats should not weigh us mentally, but vice versa; motivate us,” he said.
“Nothing better to win again than to show the team and players that we are, and what better than in complicated sections. We want three victories in three complicated fields, starting with Tel Aviv. We must recover the good feelings, from the last four games we have lost three in the last shot, and everything seems to be a disaster, “he relativized.