The Barcelona achieved on Friday night the pass to the final of the Endesa League after defeating by 60-63 to the Joventut in an intense fourth match of their semifinal series. those of Jasikevicius they came down twelve points, but recovered to get through to the final.
The controversy came at the press conference after the game. Carles Durán, Joventut coach, did not hesitate to paint the face of Sarunas Jasikevicius.
Durán charged hard against Sarunas in public: “The Barça coach does not value us. He only talks about his team and him, his team and him. Just as we value them and think they are wonderful and that they have shown that they are better than us, we have lacked respect. But they have collided and collided and collided with us. And when they come again they will collide again. He and everyone who comes. Honestly? A rude man. But well, he doesn’t respect us, nothing happens. We’ll do it again attempt.”
Regarding the game and the tie, Durán highlights his team’s effort and recognizes that Barça was better: “We have fought as hard as we could, but there is a rival who is better than us. Congratulations and now is the time to rest, but above all thank the people who have made us vibrate”.
Duran also underlined the merit of the Badalona team in this campaign: “Thank the team, which has had a season… Being third in this league is very difficult. Now I’m screwed, but grateful to the team.”
“We feel lucky, because we have generated an environment between the fans and the team, which those of us who have been from Penya since we were little, know that it is not easy to create”, continued Duran, already from the press room of the Badalona Olympic Palace .
The technician of the verdinegro box valued that in “the second part we were very tired and on top of that some shots that we needed did not enter” and, although “the effort has been ten, we have not reached the fifth game because Barça is better than us”.
