Barcelona just needed a brief and accurate squeeze for the afternoon at Santiago Martín to be so pleasant that, except for those opening minutes, there was nothing to indicate that it was the first official title of the season.

Very soon everything happened to be what the Endesa Super Cup is, one more preseason tournament.

Joan Peñarroya's

new Valencia

, devastated by casualties, could only follow the rhythm of

Jasikevicius

from afar

like a dog breathless to its owner.

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Barça will look for this Sunday (6.30pm), against Real Madrid or Tenerife, another reconquest in their return to the titles.

Nothing comparable to the last Endesa League.

Not even with the return to that Euroleague final that Efes deprived of.

But everything counts.

Strike psychologically first, get off to a good start, prolong your love affair with success.

16-0 partial

He had a stumble at the end of the Catalan League and with the resignation of

Sertac Sanli

, one of the powerful reinforcements of this already powerful squad that Saras manages, despite the financial difficulties that put it in doubt. And Barça found a rival so diminished that with only its automatisms, with that fierce defense that is a hallmark, it knocked out a Valencia that was already unable to get up at the first change. "We have seen the seams. But it suits us," his technician was going to conclude later.

Taronjas inaugurate an era. Outside the Euroleague, but with his ambition intact and with Peñarroya, one of the fashion technicians of Spanish basketball, replacing

Jaume Ponsarnau

. And with interesting new faces, although only

Víctor Claver

appeared in Tenerife. Neither

López Aróstegui

, nor

Jasiel Rivero

nor

Dimitrijevic

. Neither did

Labeyrie

. They woke up with a 3-8 which was a mirage, because then they broke like a newborn fawn.

A flagrant 16-0 partial in which an impossible problem was revealed.

Valencia lost balls in an unacceptable way (10 in the first act, several in a row), on the front line, pure suicide, and the Catalans put on their boots, also hurting from the offensive rebound.

It was a sangria.

Barça came to command by 20 (43-23), led by Higgins and Davies, and with Nigel Hayes, Laprovittola and Jokubaitis, the new ones, already contributing.

There was no reaction in the second half, with Valencia pulling several homegrown players (

Ferrando, Bellver, Bressan, Millán Jiménez

) and with the youngsters in power (

Pradilla, Josep Puerto ...

).

It was an extension of pure torpor, a mere pre-season test, with rotations, just intensity and quite boredom.

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