Barça visits this Thursday, at 5pm and live on DAZN and Movistar+, at Unics Kazan in what will be matchday 22 of the Euroleague. The azulgranas, who beat Anadolu Efes in the last European match, but did not play the weekend after the suspension of the match against Valencia Basket, visit a Unics team that is in Playoff positions.
The rival
He has a balance of 11 wins and 7 losses and, before the break due to different cases of Covid-19 in his squad, he was in a winning dynamic. The team coached by Velimir Perasovic has Isaiah Canaan and Mario Hezonja (14.5 and 14.2 points) as their top scorers.
Point guard Lorenzo Brown (13.2 points and 5.8 assists) masterfully leads the team and on the defensive side John Brown is the one who marks the line (10 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.7 steals). Nor should we forget center Tonye Jekiri, Vorontsevich, Marco Spissu, Brantley or Mayo, among others.
The Barca
He is aware of the difficulty of the match after the great match lived less than a month ago at the Palau Blaugrana. The Catalans won 111-109 in extra time in a crazy game.
Barça faces the match with a great novelty: the return of Nick Calathes. The Greek base trained at the same pace as his teammates and Sarunas Jasikevicius commented in the preview that “I think he will have minutes and we’ll see how it goes.” On the other hand, Pierre Oriola and Álex Abrines are still low.
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