\n BarcelonaNot every day is Sunday. Bar\u00e7a could not repeat Thursday’s comeback and lost against Valencia Basket (102-75). The orange team, which managed to lead by 36 points, tied the final with a collective exhibition (1-1). Kevin Punter, who was disqualified, and Will Clyburn, two of the great references of the blaugrana squad, ended up frustrated by the defensive variations designed by Pedro Mart\u00ednez. Between the two of them, they only managed to score 4 points.<\/p>\n
\n “We were not able to react and we collapsed, but we have to get up,” analyzed Xavi Pascual. The coach, who left Juan N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Miles Norris out of the squad, recovered Tom\u00e1s Satoransky, but could only use Juani Marcos occasionally due to an injury. Pedro Mart\u00ednez, for his part, had Josep Puerto available.<\/p>\n
\n The tactical traps introduced by Mart\u00ednez altered the attack of a Bar\u00e7a team that could not score any of the first eight shots it attempted. The blaugrana team took almost six minutes to open the scoring against an inspired Valencia Basket (11-0). The home team used their dominance of the rebound to impose the rhythm that suited them best. Furthermore, Yankuba Sima had a great impact on the game (26-11).<\/p>\n
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\n Valencia Basket’s lead grew to 17 points at Bar\u00e7a’s worst moment (35-18). The difference in pace was evident in a cruel stretch of the game for the blaugrana team. When the scenario had the worst diagnosis, the culer team reacted with a 2-13 run (37-31). Nico Laprovittola’s vision improved the attack of Xavi Pascual’s men, who reached halftime with the feeling that they could repeat Thursday’s comeback (45-38).<\/p>\n
\n The second half was one-sided. Bar\u00e7a conceded a 2-10 run at the start of the third quarter, when the home lead soared again (55-40). Far from speculating with the score, Valencia Basket continued to accelerate their game (69-44). The taronja team accentuated the ball movement to highlight the mobility problems of the culer team (74-52).<\/p>\n
\n Jean Montero strung together several meritorious plays. When Bar\u00e7a’s disadvantage reached 29 points with five minutes left (90-61), the game was decided. Kevin Punter, frustrated after missing eight of his nine field goals, was disqualified. “When we broke the game in the third quarter, everyone gave it up for finished and that’s why we ended up with a difference that isn’t real,” summarized Pedro Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n
\n The third game of the final will be played at the Palau Blaugrana this Monday (8 PM, DAZN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might be interested in All the mysteries (and coincidences) surrounding the deaths of Gaspi and Oliver Tree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[549,19894,2068,95],"class_list":["post-43587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-barca","tag-derails","tag-in","tag-valencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}