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Coral game against figures. That was the key to the overwhelming triumph of Unicaja in the Palau Blaugrana. But what bothered Svetislav Pesic the most was his poor performance in defensive tasks. "The defense is basic," the Barca coach lamented as soon as the game was over. Not surprisingly, 105 points had just fit in, a score that made the 95 points earned by the locals useless. A result that, in addition, forces Barcelona to go down one more step with respect to Real Madrid, whose consolidation is already the solo leader of the ACB. [Narration and statistics: 95-105]

Barcelona paid this time the rotations imposed by Pesic, who did not fly to Mirotic until he finished the first quarter and to which he offered the responsibility of the comeback in the sunset when that perhaps no longer had a remedy. The Montenegrin, who ended up adding 23 minutes, stayed this time in 17 points, thanks in large part to his 10/10 of them scored from the free kick. He only found the power forward this time in Tomic (20 points), given the constant mistakes of those who had to hit from the perimeter.

Carlos Suarez was one of the players who stood out in the Unicaja game symphony in the Palau, with Adams , his top scorer (19 points), as a soloist at the times when his people needed him most. His best success rate in the three-point shots (14 of 31, four of them Waczynski's work) compared to the poor figures of Barcelona (6 of 30) also explains very clearly how the first defeat of those of Pesic at home in the ACB, the second of the season after the correction also imposed by the CSKA in the Euroleague .

Chained Errors

Launched Unicaja from the third quarter and happy to have a player who is changing his good adventure, former student Brizuela (15 points), Barcelona chained too many errors in the shot when he thought he could approach his rival. Hanga, Delaney, Higgins or Kuric never found a way to sharpen the aim.

Unicaja did not tremble at any time the pulse as soon as it was clearly ahead on the scoreboard and he managed, again and again, to condemn the attempts of reaction of the Barcelonaists to failure.

The ASVEL Villeurbanne, the next opponent of Barça in the Euroleague, will surely have to pay the broken plates of the coup on the table of a Unicaja that has already been able to win in Valencia, in Vitoria and in Barcelona.

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