The FIATC Girona seeks to recover the sensations in Europe

ByDavid Mitchell

He FIATC Girona, leader of Group B of the FIBA ​​Europe Cup (3-1) in his continental debut, receive this Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Patrioti Levice Slovak, third (2-2), with the need to recover the sensations after two consecutive stumbles.

He Moncho Fernández team ended last week a streak of four wins in a row, losing the undefeated status in the FIBA ​​Europe Cup with a defeat against NHSZ-Szolnoki Olajbanyasz Hungarian, in a match in which they only trailed in the initial 2-0 and in the final 81-79.

And this Saturday he added another stumble as visitor in the Endesa League on the Casademont Zaragoza court (107-78), the third in three trips in the competition.

The ascending and exciting dynamic has suddenly stopped and now the Catalan team returns to the heat of Fontajau with the aim of take a step forward in their evolution as a team.

And it has been at home where he has won the three days of the ACB and the two matches of the FIBA ​​Europe Cup and has demonstrated his best version, collective and individual.

The Levice, instead, it has lost both European games as local and has cattle their two movements: last week he won at the bottom team’s home, Bucharest Dynamo Romanian, by 76-78.

Its greatest threat is base American Tony Hicks (18.3 points per game in the competition) and also the power forward Nigerian Chuba Ohams.

Girona has one of the players in the ideal quintet of the FIBA ​​Europe Cup of the month of October: the base United States Mac McClung (20.7 points), triple winner of the NBA dunk contest and G League’s all-time leading scorer.

Your other main danger is he eaves Dominican Jassel Pérez, second best player in the entire Endesa League in points 21 and rating of 23.

Both were the best in Zaragoza-Pérez (19 points) and McClung (16), but the team suffers when it has no one else to accompany its two top scorers, especially when defense fails, as it happened in Prince Philip Pavilion.

For him match against Levice they are still out base Isaac Vázquez and the Pep Busquets forwards and Maxi Fjellerup, and Moncho Fernandez must discard a player for this meeting, because heto FIBA ​​Europe Cup demands a minimum of five places and must include the young Sergi Juher and Enric Sanmartín.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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