Andorra la Vella, December 6 (EFE).- Morabank Andorra, after the break imposed by the FIBA windows, visits the “new” Barcelona led by Xavi Pascual on Sunday (5 p.m.).
Joan Plaza, with the full squad available, this week has his six internationals Shannon Evans II, Stan Okoye, Maurice Udeze, Aaron Best, Yves Pons and Artem Pustovy back, but for much of last week and is only operating with seven first-team players: Rafa Luz, ‘Shumi’ Ortega, Ferran Passas, Justin McCoy, Kyle Coric, Ruben Guerrero and point guard Aaron Ganal. Who plays the most for Primera Catalana II.
The Principality side lost their final ACB league match to Joventut Badalona and broke a two-game winning streak. These two wins helped them catch their breath after a somewhat complicated start in which they were the worst defense in the ACB league.
Since then, the improvement has been significant, especially defensively. Joan Plaza knows that the important match for them is the following weekend as they host Coverin Granada, one of their direct rivals for continuity.
Of course, against Barcelona, they know the difficulty of the game and even more so against an opponent who has improved significantly after the arrival of Xavi Pascual to the bench and in the period in which David Orellana was interim coach.
In fact, the Blaugrana entered the match having lost only one match with the Java coach coming off the bench and that was against Anadolu Efes Istanbul in the Euroleague. The rest of the matches, including the last match against Red Star on Friday, witnessed victories with a lot of defensive solvency.
Last season, Barcelona and Morabank faced each other, and the team of Joan Benaroya, at that time, won 105 to 79 over the team of Natxo Lezcano with 20 points from an old man known as Joan Plaza, Tomas Satoransky and Ferran Basas from the Andorran side with 15 points.
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