“If the team competes, it will be in the fight for both the ‘play-in’ and the ‘playoff'”

The Barça Basketball coach, Joan Peñarroya, has opined that if his team “competes” in what is missing to set the regular Euroleague season, “he will be there in the fight both to enter ‘play-in’ and for the ‘playoffs'”, despite his defeat this Thursday for 96-91 against Real Madrid during the day 27.

“The team competes; and if the team competes, it will be there in the fight both to enter ‘play-in’ and for the ‘playoffs’. We have three games at home and three outside of what is left of Euroleague. But we are not going to look at the Euroleague, the most important game is that of the weekend against Breogán,” he said at a press conference from the Movistar Arena.

Thus, the coach Culé described this classic as “another game played, another matching match and another game that is decided at the end.” “It is evident that we have done wrong things, but it is a day to be proud of the team. I think we have competed well, we have fought until the end and we have had real options, real options,” he said.

“It is a day to be proud of how the team has been, but at the same time we need to be demanding to be better. The nine losses in the second part have punished us and in some tactical situations, especially in defense, we could have been better,” he admitted.

Then he praised “the determination” with which they had played their pupils in the conclusive minutes. “We entered in the absence of 30 seconds with the ball and two down. Fucked because we have escaped a very matched match against a great rival, but with the head very high,” he reiterated.

Peñarroya later valued the four times that the faces have already been seen in this 2024/25 campaign. “The feeling at the end does not matter. The four games have been very similar, perhaps less the Super Cup … one with two extensions, and has known them better Real Madrid,” he resigned.

“It is clear that there may be ups and downs, but we have reaches the end of the game in order to win it, which has competed.

However, he identified “many things and statistical details to improve” and advocated “trying to improve those details that are depriving us of getting many victories.” Meanwhile, he bit his tongue about a possible fault in the minutes of Walter Tavares about Jabari Parker, rebuilding a lance resulted in a jump between two.

“I went from the first sanctioned in the competition [por protestar] And I don’t feel like being sanctioned again, “he replied sharply, but visibly angry for actions that loaded his squad, including a technique, and gave Real Madrid free shots.

Finally, he pointed out that it had been “tactical decision” the little minute of the pivot Willy Hernangómez during this decisive match in the fight to access the ‘play-in’ of the tournament, thus enlarging the rumors of a difficult relationship between coach and player.