Basketball Girona came down from the cloud last Sunday, after conceding a hard defeat against Real Madrid (74-93) in a game in which the team of Salva Camps was not recognized. “We haven’t been able to compete because we haven’t put into practice what we train. We cannot invent and think that we are skilled enough to do things that we have not put into practice. I’m not worried about losing, but not being competitive. I haven’t seen the Basketball Girona on the track”, said the visibly annoyed technician. The Girona team ran out of options in the second quarter, with a final score of 11 to 22, conceding a defeat that will have to be analyzed and forgotten so that it does not affect the spectacular dynamics of this start of the season.
“Is the Real Madrid, a very good team with a good coach and good players. This, however, is no excuse. We didn’t compete the game with enough energy. We are experts at doing that, as we had shown in the first three league games, and yet we couldn’t sustain the pace of the first few minutes throughout the game. We missed playing as a team. We have to stop to see what has happened and fix it for the next day”, he commented Ike Iroegbu after the match is over.
The American base was the top scorer of the duel, with 17 punts, and the one who got the highest rating (23) of each and every player who entered the court, but, just like the rest of his teammates, his magic was missed. The people of Girona succeeded 6 of 24 triplesagainst the 16 of 29 which brought in the white set.
“We lacked energy”, insisted Iroegbu. California’s received an unsportsmanlike foul fromAbandonedwhich caused a strong blow to his nose, for which he had to be attended to by the assistance and he needed to apply ice to reduce the inflammation.
For his part, James Sorolla he also tried to find an explanation for the defeat: “Seeing us down the scoreboard has affected us mentally. Maybe we shouldn’t dwell on it so much because in a basketball game you can be down -20 and come back. The difference in points has hurt us a lot.” And he continued: “We wanted to propose an energetic game, but when Madrid took off, we lowered our arms and could no longer do anything about it. We must learn from this defeat. It’s just the beginning of the season, the team is still not at 100 percent and we have to keep working. We will get up, for sure.”
“It wasn’t us. I think we were punished a lot by mistakes in defense… We didn’t agree on which player should help. They’ve given us a triple or smacking that they can’t afford,” he added.
Learn from defeat
Winning the first three league games, placed the Basketball Girona at the top of the classification with better records than, for example, teams like Barça or Baskonia. After finishing the fourth day of the ACB, the Salva Camps they have dropped to third place – still above Blaugrana, who are sixth.
Only Madrid can with Girona this season
“We have had a very good start to the season, achieving three consecutive victories, which has allowed us to trust the work we do in training. The game against Real Madrid was different. We have to remember that they are the best team in Europe and it is very difficult to compete with them, but collectively we did not play well. We could have done better… Basketballs didn’t go in, we lost balls… Mistakes penalized us a lot against a team like Madrid. We have to make a full stop, continue working and be focused so that defeats like this don’t happen to us again”, he assessed Yves Pons.
The French wing-pivot was optimistic and self-critical: “We have a very good team. The basics are there. We want to win and so far we’ve competed every game as if it was our last. The image we had against Madrid cannot be repeated.” The next challenge will be this Saturday against Tenerife.
2023-10-09 17:07:45
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