Looking for continuity at home

Básquet Girona receives Juaristi Iraurgi in Fontajau on Sunday (7:00 p.m.) with the aim of achieving its second consecutive victory in front of the fans

| Friday, 29 March 2019

Important match for Basketball Girona against a rival that is not at its best and where victory will be key to stay in the fight for the promotion play-off positions. After Àlex Formento took charge of the first team in place of Quim Costa during the week, the team is ready for the next match.

The Gipuzkoa team is ranked last in the league with a record of one win and four losses for a total of 4-11. In addition, the visitors have not managed to win since January 26 (at the Marin Peixe Galego track) and have accumulated six consecutive defeats between the first and second phases. However, the team led by Lorenzo Encinas has competed until the last moment in all the games – it has not lost any of them by more than nine points. And this, which has the second youngest squad in the LEB Plata with an average age of 23 years – only exceeded by that of Grupo Eleyco Baskonia -.

The Azpeitia team has physically powerful players in its ranks such as the centers Volodomyr Orlov (9 points, 4.4  rebounds, 3.6 fouls received and 14.2 rating) and Iker Salazar (8.8 points, 6 rebounds and 11.6 rating) and with scoring outside players like Jah Powell (13 points and 12.4 rating) and Spencer Reaves (15.2 points, 47% in percentage of success in three-pointers and 12 rating).

*Alex Formento assessment:

“They are a very dangerous team. They are not going through their best moment in terms of results, but they have been close to winning in Alicante and Villarrobledo, this means that their game is being good and, therefore, we will have to play to the maximum” .

Schedule and classification of the 6th day

PHOTO: Sergi Geronès