• Chronicle: Baskonia, an extraordinary champion: knock out Barcelona and win the Endesa League

There are strange elements, hesitant by themselves, that well mixed flow without knowing very well the reasons. Dusko did it again, just like the old days. Of the 10 titles that, without counting the Super Cups, Baskonia has conquered in its entire history, six have been with Ivanovic on the bench. In the Balkan's record as a coach - as a player he was twice European champion with the legendary Jugoplastika - he only wears the 2007 Cup with Barça as a dazzling trophy (he previously won with Limoges in France and Freiburg in Switzerland); He achieved everything else in Vitoria, his fetish city, to which he returned to wake up in a big way, to achieve absolutely unexpected success.

Because no one would have bet on a resurrection again, he went as a firefighter. Back when the Perasovic team was completely adrift at Christmas, Dusko came to the rescue. Today, incredibly, a decade later, he once again boasts of being the Endesa League champion.

Josean Querejeta went back to his old guru then, in what would be the third stage of Dusko. It wasn't just a matter of nostalgia. Because few were already betting that the sergeant would once again be able to impose his old methods on a broken squad, out of position both in ACB (and no time to get a ticket for the Cup) or in the Euroleague. And the last times of Ivanovic did not predict anything good (Khimki, Besiktas ...), as if his star was fading. And yet ... «Dusko's soreness sharpened our ambition. We know his history in this club and I think we can write new pages, " Lucas Vildoza warned these days, while Baskonia recovered the tusk and energy, defense as a hallmark -28 points awarded in the entire second look last night before the luxurious Barça- and direct play in attack as a declaration of intent.

"Everything changes. Basketball, the world, but Ivanovic's philosophy continues from one year to the next: They play with intensity, pressure on defense, they look for the offensive rebound and they have enough experience, ” Pesic praised in the previous, old rival of so many battles (he does 17 years, for example, he won a Cup with Barça in this same Fonteta).

The advance of what he was going to get was also pronounced in the days before. «I came to enjoy and the truth is that I am enjoying these players who work and play so well. When I arrived I had faith in them and, luckily, we have been able to change their mentality and character, which was what most failed them when I came. They were very good, but they needed to fight during the 40 minutes to win the matches, ”he announced.

And the break gave Dusko the perfect chink to sow in his pupils the seed of ambition, to make him forget all of the above. He reviewed his martial slogans and convinced the collective. There are no excuses, no pain. Everyone has to be and will be. The physical problems that anyone may have should be forgotten, "he proclaimed these days. And last night he remembered his main warrior, a totally exhausted Shengelia : "We had to win for Toko, he had to win something here." And so his warriors left both in the semifinal against the host and in the outcome against the favorite. To dog face. Dusko's law.

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