Bilbao Basket, another boost to celebrate 600 games
They are measured today in Zaragoza two teams that have managed to stop the first blow that the competition has thrown at them in the Endesa League, but they are aware that they have to continue growing to try to move away from the sinking zone of the classification. Surne Bilbao Basket ended a four-game losing streak and looks to the future with a better face, the one that appears when Jaume Ponsarnau You can count on all your players. “We are growing as a team, we have a proposal, what happens is that we also know that what we have shown is going well for us is going to try to cancel it. We have to grow because the moment you stop, any team can beat you”, comments the coach of the men in black.
The next goal of Bilbao basket it is “learning to be competitive also outside without our public”. The departure to Zaragoza is always complicated, although today the Biscayan team will be accompanied by more than 200 followers who want to celebrate the 600th match of the entity in the highest category. “The victory would be a very good recognition to all the people who have made this beautiful, endearing, exciting and solid story possible. With this strength he has many years left”, says Ponsarnau.
The Casa Demont ZaragozaLogically, he does not want to be the paymaster of the party because a victory would reinforce the reaction that he has staged since Porfirio Fisac returned to one of the hottest benches in the League. There were six straight losses, but now the hands have two consecutive wins. “They have found more inspiration, players, success and energy, and it is a team with quality, that makes them more dangerous. We have to do things very well if we want to compete”, warns Ponsarnau.
His colleague Fisac puts on the sheep’s clothing because, in reality, they are two squads with very similar potential. “We still have a long way to go and here there is only one way to win, with maximum effort and sacrifice, and if anyone believes more than what they are for, I am here to tell them”, points out the Segovian coach, who considers that Bilbao Basket “is the better team at the moment. They have more victories, they are playing better and they have been solid games for longer. They are showing on the track that they are superior. We have a major challenge to see if we can get close to them.”
The key to the match will be, according to Fisac, “controlling the pace of the game since they do very well with two point guards like Hakanson and Radicevic. They have the ability to play both at an offensive transition rate and at a static one with very clear ideas and the ability to score easily. They have a very high scoring power and right now they are in great percentages. We know that you have to work very well defensively to reduce that and that they don’t shoot so comfortable”.