Lolo Encinas applauds his team during a game this year in Illunbe. /
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The Balearic Islands have won their last two home games reaching 90 points and Acunsa Gipuzkoa will try to reduce those numbers
The LEB Oro faces another week of three games and the Acunsa Gipuzkoa Basket will start it on Sunday at 12:00 in Palma, where “all eleven of us hope to travel”, Lolo Encinas wished this Friday. “Mikel Motos has been able to train for half of the week and with these next games it will be important that we are all healthy to be able to play and maintain a high rhythm”.
The Balearic Islands are penultimate with four wins, three from safety, but in the words of the coach from San Sebastian “they are at their best moment of the season. Our week has been very normal, without thinking that Palma is down. The two victories he has achieved at home against Coruña (91-88) and Lleida (98-90) have come in handy to show us the level they have. They play to 90 points and that tells us where the game will go. I am not very interested in the game being crazy, we have to lower those numbers to some figures in which we are going to have more options.
Despite the departures of Fjellerup and Lundqvist, the signing of Elijah Brown, son of NBA coach Mike Brown, has contributed to a more individualistic and vertical team along with the quality of Van Beck. “They are two tremendous scorers, along with Pol Figueras, they carry responsibility in attack behind their backs.”
Lolo Encinas has transmitted that «we have to defend above all the first ten seconds of his possession. They get points out of nowhere and if we are good there and we make them play longer, it will be harder for them to reach 90 points and our chances of victory will increase. If they don’t score quickly and quickly, it’s hard for them.”
Even Acunsa Gipuzkoa Basket, like Real Sociedad, has not forgiven against the teams in the lower part of the classification and “if we take out these two that we have away from home, the one on Sunday in Palma and the one on Wednesday in Huesca, It will allow us to take a cool jump. I sign the same result that Real got in Mallorca », which was 0-2 a week ago.
