40 minutes of work

Básquet Girona will play tomorrow in Fontajau (7:00 p.m.) against the third ranked team, CB Villarrobledo

| Friday, 01 February 2019

After last week’s defeat at the Azuqueca track, the Girona team will once again play a match against a Manche team, with the clear intention of achieving a valuable victory to be able to drag it into the second phase.

The team coached by Quim Costa lost the first leg by a narrow 90 – 83 in overtime after leading the score for more than thirty minutes and playing a good game. Therefore, the concentration and work throughout the 40 minutes of the game must be maximum against a Villarrobledo that has the fourth best attack in the league (73.3 points per game) and a positive balance away from home – five wins and four losses – .

Although the team from Girona controlled very well the most dangerous players of the team trained by Manu Jiménez, they could not stop the rival star in the final stretch of the match, the American Jalen Nesbitt. The winger finished with a rating of 31 and currently leads the league in scoring (15.7), fouls (4.47) and rating (22.1). In addition to him, those from Castilla-La Mancha have the Senegalese pivot Pa Mor Diene (13.1 rating per game) and their new signing: the Nigerian Godson Eneogwe who made his debut the previous day.

*Quim Costa’s assessment:

“We have nothing to worry us, we must have the ambition to want more. We have already done the work, everything that comes from now on is one more thing to try to play basketball well and enjoy it.”

“It is one of the best teams in the category. After Alicante and Murcia, it has the most potential. It will be a game where we will have to push ourselves to the maximum “.