Málaga, Oct 27 (EFE).- Unicaja coach, Ibon Navarro, praised the spectacle of the match between Unicaja and Barça this Sunday at the Martín Carpena and summarized his team’s 103-96 victory by “the little ones details”.
“It is decided by small details, like Kendrick Perry’s triple [a dos minutos del final para el 93-86] and having improved the percentage of free throws in the second half,” the coach summarized after “a great basketball game with two teams that defend well.”
“We have had many ups and downs and so have they, there were changes in the energy of the game,” he stressed, contributing as keys the power to “control Kevin Punter and Justin Anderson” and the adjustments at half-time, which “have gone very well to change the chip in many things.”
With five wins in five league games, Ibon Navarro resists excessive praise and prefers to maintain his usual speech: “Now, thinking about Manresa, people have to enjoy themselves, but we will lose because maybe it will be good for us.”
“When defeat has to come, it will come, and now we have a month away from home ahead of us due to the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King,” he warned, adding that it is the people who “get freaked out, as long as we don’t Let’s freak out.”
“We are all in love with a player because they are all very good,” he noted, without wanting to personalize the praise on any player, although he mentioned the names of Kendrick Perry (22 points), the defense of Yankuba Sima or the +16 with Killian Tillie in basketball court.
Regarding the tribute to the retired Will Thomas, a player on his team until July, he said that Martín Carpena’s ovation for the former American player “has been super nice” for a player “who has taught us all a lot, having him here these days has been wonderful and now he has to find something that motivates him.” EFE
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