Defeat at the Palace

Basketball Girona falls to the Palau Blaugrana by 3 points, competing until the last moment (72-69)

| Saturday, 11 June 2022

FC Barcelona and Bàsquet Girona faced each other today in very distant positions in the classification: Barça, leader with 5 victories, prevailed thanks to success and defensive solidity.

The match started with a score of 0-6. The Girona players set the pace and intensity at the start, knowing how to hold the momentum for the first 8 minutes. From that moment on, Barça reacted, with a great partial, to be ahead on the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter (23-19).

Blaugrana’s dominance increased in the second period: the locals knew how to run more and better and found success from practically all areas of attack, achieving a maximum advantage of +15. The second half started with a score of 50-38, and had a very similar tonic, only broken by a good half that put Aíto’s men under the 10-point barrier.

In the last minutes of the third quarter, Barça again found all their success to break the game and decide the derby in their corner, but the reds managed to get involved again, competing until the last moment. In the end, 72-69.

This next week the competition will stop to make way for the FIBA ​​window. Basketball Girona’s next game will be on Saturday, November 19, against Gran Canaria, in Fontajau.

POST-PART ASSESSMENT:

Aíto: “It was an irregular match. In the first half there was a moment when we lowered our arms quite a bit and didn’t fight as we should have and, in the second half, Barça did the same with the difference that they play three or four games a week. I’m unhappy in this first half where we didn’t work and much more happy with the beginning of the game and the second half where we worked more. If we want to keep improving, it’s not worth working now and not working now: we must always work.”