The Arena as a pillar to extend the series and shake up the Playoff

The Arena as a pillar to extend the series and shake up the Playoff

Ukrainian center Artem Pustovyi crushes Barcelona's rim in the first game. / acb Photo - V Salgado

Granca seeks to knock down Barca this Sunday (8:00 p.m.) to force the third game. The yellow tide will play a transcendental role to counteract Barça's potential

The hour of the brave. Now or nothing else, it's over. Win to dream and believe. The Playoff does not let up and the time has come to demonstrate and claim. The Gran Canaria Basketball Club receives
this Sunday (8:00 p.m., Movistar Deportes -dial 53-) Barça in the second match of the quarter-final tie for the Endesa League.

After falling in the first game by
93-82 at the Palau Blaugrana,
the Claretian team entrusts itself to the fort of the Gran Canaria Arena to tie the series of quarters and force the third match, which would take place this Tuesday, starting at 8:30 p.m., at the Ciudad Condal venue. The mission takes on epic overtones due to the solidity and reliability of the Barça team, while the yellows cling to their
signs of identity and to the strength of his fans to carry out the feat.

The campus of Porfi Fisac,
who ruled out the game director from Gran Canaria Javi López at the Palau Blaugrana and will have to do the same today as the 13 available players continuewithstood the pulse of a transatlantic until the halfway point of the last quarter in the culé fort (72-70), at which time Barça punished the imbalances in the insular zonal defense, while the Claretians also collapsed in attack.

For its part, Sarunas Jasikevicius's squad,
that he did not move the Turkish pivot Sanli to the island -he was already discharged after spending the night in hospital for observation after a blow to the head by Shurna- nor to the Balearic foreign Abrines -absent in the first match also due to a sprain in his right ankle that occurred during the Final Four of the Euroleague and still has discomfort-, but the North American forward Hayes was part of the expedition -he will have to carry out an extra-community discard -, he does not want scares and has the purpose of finishing the crossing on the fast track.

«
We have to close the tie. It will be a tough game away from home. Gran Canaria is a very talented team, but we have to continue playing as we know how”, assured former Granca player and Barça shooting guard Kyle Kuric upon landing on the island.

Undoubtedly,
a new opportunity to make history and knock down an unreachable entity in Playoff time. The team-fan communion seems decisive to pursue the feat of extending the series and dream of new semifinals.

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