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Lenovo Tenerife

Barcelona has stripped the daisy of the season’s titles without any success, a season that threatens to go blank while Madrid links one alirón after another. Derailed from the Super Cup and lost in the Cup final -both challenges against the archenemy-, blurred in the regular phase of the Endesa League because they finished third and dropped out of Europe before the Final Fourthe Barça team refers to the playoffs of the ACB so as not to shipwreck with the new project, lowered in any case economically and in the names, Mirotic already forgotten and the supposed great signing of Hernangómez was misguided – this Sunday he did not play until midway through the third quarter; 8m 28s in total – because Vesely has not given ground. The first step towards recomposition was taken at the Palau against a Tenerife team that was the Guy Basketball Clubsince the guard added 34 points, a delicious spectacle that, unfortunately for him, was left without a prize, supported by Barça, above all, by Parker.

Adapted to the Barcelona ecosystem and applied in tactics – there are many hours that the staff has dedicated to absorbing European basketball after a life in the NBA – Parker is the right eye of the Palau and the locker room due to his continued effervescence. He, with the everlasting smile and sometimes shocked face – mask of his internalized competitiveness – takes on the honors. As at the beginning of this series in which Barça, slapped in the face, plays everything in red or black. He grabs, jumps, wrists and goes in. Three triples to open their mouths and another basket of two, 11 points in the quarter to explain that Barça can no longer be small. And even less when Kyle Guy is in front, the gunfighter from Indiana, the focus of Tenerife now that strongholds like Shermadini, Doornekamp, ​​and Jaime Fernández are in the mix. But Guy offers a better version with a greater challenge, a player with an electric hip and a golden doll, a feast to plug. It happened that Lenovo was not enough at the beginning with just Guy, as he paled before Barça’s range of resources, moments of rapid circulation and clean passes after leaving the pick and rollthree-pointers at a time (6 of 9) except for a Ricky Rubio who is struggling with the rim to correct it with assists.

Vidorreta scolded his players because they paid no attention to the board, to what they had worked on during the week, ignoring that Marcelino could be the lever that moves the world. When they accepted the slogan, Lenovo took the pulse of the challenge, directed by Marcelinho and catapulted by a burning Guy, capable of scoring triples from the corners or from his home, unbalanced or with a jump on one leg, a Show irrepressible that reminded again that Guy is a player of playoffs, since previously he had played six games and in four he exceeded 20 points and in another two, 30. At the Palau, he scored 23 at halftime, a record that was enough for the Tenerife team to get into the fight. With Barça disoriented, only Abrines was able to reply from the periphery, even forces at the break (50-46).

Guy had more, of course. His one on one decomposed the rivals and loaded them with personnel, a machine that the Catalans could not decipher. Nor contain. Two plus one here, triple there, oh my god everywhere to put Lenovo ahead for the first time in the clash (55-57). Seeing Guy’s abrasive basketball, Barça made an effort to provide help, in two against one, a capacity of attraction that freed its teammates; Vicedo and Álex López from the outskirts. Again, only Abrines protested from the triple and finally Hernangómez played and explained that he is the Hulk under the hoop, arms raised to ask for the Palau’s encouragement in the absence of the coach’s affection. And Parker, at the horn, in an impossible shot from the corner, invented a basket to put the tables (72-72) in the absence of the last chapter.

In the hot room the coldness of Laprovittola finally appeared, steals, assists and baskets, good balls. But he found no chorus or echo, the blaugranas out of tune, fighting with the hoop. Until a dunk and then a jump shot from Parker, also a dance by Parra in the bottle, unblocked Barça. Guy, already with his tongue hanging out – he played all but x minutes – lost efficiency and the Lenovo stayed in the middle. Or less. Jauja in the Palau, as Vesely, Satoransky and, again, Parker (23 points in the stake), closed the duel and the victory despite Guy. One to zero in the series, which will resume on Wednesday in Tenerife.

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