After losing this Thursday by 70-64 at Unics Kazan, the Barça coach Conversation Jasikevicius He lamented that shooting guard Cory Higgins, author of 17 points, and center Brandon Davies, with 16, were the only “solid” players in the Barça team.
“(Cory) Higgins was excellent. (Brandon Davies) solid. But I can’t find a third player who was solid. Two players isn’t enough to win in Kazan, with the great defensive numbers the Unics have. We weren’t the good enough”, lamented the Lithuanian coach at a press conference.
Also, Jasikevicius was satisfied with the integration of the recovered Nick Calathes y Cory Higgins: “We are very happy that they are back and some of them played a great game today. We will suffer with them to get them back up to speed because they are very important to us.”
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On the Greek-American base, the coach valued that “He was excellent in defense” although in attack “he needs time, something normal with players recovering from injury”.
On the other hand, Jasikevicius said that the absence of the team’s star, power forward Nikola Mirotic, “cannot be an excuse” to explain the defeat since “Barça have a great squad even without Mirotic.”
Likewise, the azulgrana coach declared that Unics Kazan “was a better team, more physical” in a very even match defensively and regretted the unforced errors made by his players.
“When we tried to run in the last quarter, we made a lot of avoidable mistakes. We also have a lot of problems fouling shooters, which is unacceptable. Today we fouled shooters four times. Easy points make the difference in big games,” lamented the coach. Baltic.
By last, Jasikevicius acknowledged that Barça is “a little out of our rhythm, so we need to keep working, that’s all.”
