Barça's enormous anger with the referees and the ACB: Amaya Valdemoro, appointments and "this is not the NBA, kid". Mario Bruno Fernández, Juan Carlos Navarro's right-hand man in Barça's sports management, shouted through Martín Carpena's guts at the end of the final.

"This can't be endured! "It cannot be that the referee refereed for the microphone and not for the game," he said. The defeat, precipitated in a final quarter in which Real Madrid evidently raised the bar, hurt the Barça expedition too much.