Azu Muguruza gives orders during training this week. /
The women from Donostia welcome Spar Girona tonight at Gasca, one of the roosters in the league, with the aim of approaching fourth position
IDK Euskotren has an opportunity to go further in its remarkable season. He is two wins away from equaling his best mark in the regular league, fifteen, while he wants to add fourteen this afternoon-night against Spar Girona (8:15 p.m.), one of the roosters in the competition. Assaulting the fourth place that Girona owns has to do with not lowering the piston in recent weeks. The challenge is enormous, but seeing the whiplash that the Catalans bring, it is not impossible.
Girona comes from playing and losing on Wednesday in the Euroleague in the first leg of the quarterfinals against Perfumerías Avenida (77-63), so they will barely have 48 hours of rest. In the IDK Euskotren an ambitious goal is expressed, such as playing European competition next season. It’s no longer scary to mention it. “We have to be strong because we risk everything. The objective is to enter Europe and for this we have to be intelligent, manage the intensities… and for everything, ”said Azu Muruguza. In the event that the team from San Sebastian finish fourth, they will play in the Eurocup for sure, while finishing the regular league in fifth or sixth position seems to also have a prize this season.
The Eurocup has invitations to distribute that could go to the aforementioned positions, so it does not seem unreasonable to start dreaming that Gasca will see European basketball next season. In spite of everything, we must finish closing the objective in the remaining seven days. It won’t be easy, since in addition to facing rivals who will fight not to be relegated, there is still a direct duel against Cadí La Seu, who have to visit Donostia. In the first leg the Catalans won with a tight 60-57.
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Friday
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Zaragoza-Valencia 18.45
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IDK Euskotren-Girona 20.15
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Saturday
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Students-Ferrol 18.00
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Perfumeries-Araski 18.00
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Gernika-Ensino 18.30
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Gran Canaria-Campus Promise 19.00
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Cadí La Seu-Leganés 19.30
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Sunday
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Bembibre-Tenerife 18.15
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Classification
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JGP Team
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1
Valencia Basket 24 20 4 -
2
Perfumeries Avenue 22 21 1 -
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Cadí La Seu 23 16 7 -
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Girona 21 17 4 -
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IDK Euskotren 22 13 9 -
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Casademont Zaragoza 22 13 9 -
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Gernika Bizkaia 23 10 13 -
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Spar Gran Canaria 23 10 13 -
9
Movistar Students 22 10 12 -
10
Campus Promise 22 10 12 -
11
Kutxabank Araski 22 9 13 -
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Durán Maquinaria Ensino 22 8 14 -
13
Leganes 23 6 17 -
14
Tenerife23 5 18 -
15
Baxi Ferrol 23 5 1 -
16
Bembibre 21 6 15
Those of Azu Muguruza, before tonight’s complicated duel, have “hope, illusion and ambition, although we are aware of the great team that Girona has, but we have to aspire to everything,” declared the coach. Plan “a tough and physical match to balance the talent they have.” We will have to roll up our sleeves to stop the two American outsiders Kennedy Burke and Rebeka Gardner, two of the top scorers in the league with 15.7 and 14.6 points per game, while the tireless and historic Laia Palau also plays in Girona, who At 42 years old, he continues to distribute game on the courts.
