Lawal fractures his meniscus and loses the Copa del Re
With this scenario, the meeting was strange, stuck and with very tough defenses. It was dominated in the light by Barça -which had a 9-19 maximum income- for more than 36 minutes. And when Zenit turned him around in the final stretch, he no longer let the victory escape. Xavi Pascual, with his variants behind with a defense that was gradually increasing in strength, did not let the Catalans feel almost never comfortable on the parquet and optimized their resources. Five players finished in double-digit scoring led by Poythress in the paint (16 points and 11 rebounds) well supported by Thomas, who showed that Barça needs a reinforcement in the area since Pustovyi does not count. On the outside, a Pangos eager to claim (15 points) topped the list completed by Rivers (11) and Baron (16).
At Barça, only two players (Abrines and Mirotic) surpassed ten points in a pulse in which Barça had to break a stone to maintain short incomes throughout the duel (16-19 at the end of the first quarter, 35- 38 at halftime and 54-55 at the end of the third period). Lower in the rebound (33 by 25), the Barça team allowed second shots that allowed Zenit to cut off the take-off threats of the Barcelona team in the light.
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Everything was doomed to a heads or tails outcome after Barça had reached a 63-68). At 3’42" For the end, a triple by Rivers put the Russians ahead on the scoreboard for the first time (71-68). Barça, playing those minutes with Smits in the paint would still keep the type. Until 2’10" from the end a childish unsportsmanlike foul by Calathes began to mark the beginning of the end. Zenit no longer let the opportunity slip and endorsed a duel (culminating in a 11-2 partial) marked by a context to which we are going to have to get used to.
Zenit San Pertersburgo has made official this Sunday the hiring of Spanish Xavi Pascual until the end of the 2020-21 season, and that he will take the reins of the team from tomorrow, Monday.
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Pascual replaces the Spanish Joan Plaza in office. The Catalan coach had not trained since December 2018 when he left the Panathinaikos bench, after winning two Greek league titles with the greens, one in the Cup and being present in the Euroleague play-offs in 2017 and 2018.
Before that, he spent eight seasons at Barcelona in which he won one Euroleague, four ACB Leagues, three King’s Cups and four Spanish Super Cups.
Pascual has won 71.3% of the matches he has led in the Euroleague, 206 out of 276, with Barcelona and Panathinaikos.
Zenit Saint Petersburg coach Xavi Pascual has recalled the Euroleague he won in 2010 with Barça in Paris, in an almost perfect season in which he thinks they wrote a "beautiful page" in the historical book of the maximum continental competition.
Apr 16, 2020 at 6:08 pm CEST
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"I feel part of one of the best seasons, I think, of the Euroleague. I remember that we played great basketball, with speed, aggressiveness in defense and attack. I think that in that book that the Euroleague will write one day, we are on a beautiful page", said in ‘The Crossover by Endesa’ in conversation with former player Joe Arlauckas.
Pascual won the ‘Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year’ award for best coach in the competition after leading his team to a 10-0 balance in the Regular Phase, 5-1 in the ‘Top 16’, a 3 -1 against Real Madrid in the ‘Playoffs’ and two victories in the ‘Final Four’ in Paris-Bercy; for a 20-2 aggregate in the Euroleague. In the final, Barça beat the mighty Olympiacos 86-68.
However, in 2016 and following an advice from Ettore Messina, he chose to end a successful stage at Barça. Between February 2008 and until the end of the 2015/16 season, Pascual was synonymous with success and conquered four ACB Leagues, four ACB Super Cups, three King’s Cups and that Euroleague in Paris.
"I remember once with Ettore we had a conversation and he said to me: ‘Okay, now in Barcelona everything is perfect for you, but you will really feel like a great coach when you leave your country and win something. In that moment, you will really feel: ‘Okay, I’m a great coach.’ And really, he was right", recognized Pascual, who went to Panathinaikos (two Leagues and a Cup) and, in February of this year, he took Zenit de Saint Petersburg after the cessation of Joan Plaza.
Reaching that top, located on that beautiful page in the Blaugrana color in the future historical book of the competition, was not easy for the Catalan coach. He wanted to make a career in engineering but, paying attention to his surroundings, he took a turn in his life to dedicate himself completely to being a basketball coach.
"I am a coach because I need to feel every day that I am part of the game, that I can help my players, that I can help my team win. And after that, feeling like the work we did was good", Gavà’s technician was honest.
For Pascual, the special thing about basketball is having a rival in front of you that you have studied to win. "I have two, three or four days to prepare. I start to watch games and feel what I can do, how I can help my players win. It is something that is within me. When I think ‘Okay, this is the way, this way we can probably win’, that’s why I’m a coach"he explained.
And, starting from the base and going through CB Gavà, Cornellà, CB Santfeliuenc, CB Olesa and CB Aracena, he arrived at the Barça subsidiary in 2004 and after being an assistant in the first team he took over the reins, provisionally in initially, when Dusko Ivanovic was sacked in the middle of the 2007/08 season. But, from his past as a base coach, his advice is clear.
"What I have to say to young coaches is, well, you have to put your feet on the ground and you have to think about every decision you make."explained about it.
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Pascual recalled that he began to be a basketball coach to pay for his university studies, he recalled the moment when he went from being second coach to first coach at Barça with the dismissal of Ivanovic, and detailed how is his current day of confinement because of the coronavirus.
Shane Lawal stopped being a Barça Lassa player this Friday. The Barça club announced in an official statement that it had reached an agreement with the Nigerian center for the termination of the contract that united both parties until June 30. Barça, as usual, thanked the player for his professionalism in the aforementioned note and wished him luck in his future both personally and professionally.
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Shane Lawal (2.08 and 30 years old) arrived at Barça in the summer of 2015 from the Italian Dinamo de Sassari with whom he had been proclaimed champion of the Lega. That season, the pivot played 26 games in the Endesa League with an average of 4 points and 3.1 rebounds. In the Euroleague he signed an average of 5.2 points and 4 rebounds in 17 games.
A trajectory that was interrupted by the injury he suffered on February 14, 2016: a tear of the external meniscus of his left knee that left him KO for three months. After recovering, the player was preparing to face his second season at Barça, now under the command of Georgios Bartzokas. But on August 8, 2016, in the first match of the Rio Games, Lawal suffered a serious injury in the duel that his team, Nigeria, played against Argentina 1xbet is safe.
Specifically, Lawal suffered a complete rupture of the patellar tendon in his left knee that forced him to undergo surgery. After recovering in the United States, the pivot returned to Barcelona where, since then, he had been covering the various stages of his recovery, remaining, of course, unprecedented throughout this period.
Lawal fractures his meniscus and loses the Copa del Rey
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Now it will be necessary to see if Lawal faces his sporting future in another club, although it all depends on how he has recovered from his second important setback in the same knee. Meanwhile, Barça Lassa has been evaluating in recent weeks the option of reinforcing its inner game with a new pivot for the Endesa League play-offs. Remember that in this sense, the deadline for making signings in the ACB competition will expire on Friday the 19th at 8:00 p.m. a day before the series for the title begins.
It’s official now. Brandon Davies, until now the center of Zalgiris Kaunas, is already a FC Barcelona player. This was announced this Thursday by the Barça club on social networks, just one day after the incorporation of Corey Higgins was known and waiting for what happens with Nikola Mirotic and Álex Abrines.
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Davies, 2.08 and 27 years old, signs for the next two seasons and will be presented this Thursday at the Palau Blaugrana from 1:30 p.m.
The American player, powerful in the paint and with a very athletic profile, is part of the ideal Euroleague five, sharing privilege with Calathes, Sloukas, Clyburn and Vesely. This season he has registered 14.2 points on average and 5.5 rebounds, with an average rating of 17.
Trained at Brigham Young University in Utah from 2009 to 2013, Davies tried his luck in the NBA in the ranks of the 76ers and Brooklyn between 2013 and 2015. In January 2015 he made his European basketball debut wearing the Chalon-sur Saone jersey . The following year, Davies signed for Italian Varese, where he only lasted one season. He returned, in 2016-17, to French basketball. He was only in Monaco for a year, as Zalgiris took him, where he has shown great progress.
Svetislav Pesic (Novi Sad 8-28-1949) turns 70 this Wednesday.