The coach of the Herbalife Gran Canaria, Porfi Fisac, has warned that the game that his team plays at home against him UCAM Murcia Sunday will be “important” for the final stretch of the Endesa League, if they want to materialize their options to play the “playoffs”.
“Murcia he is playing an extraordinary basketball, with an important energy and level of success. It is a club that has known how to react to its losses, with the arrival of players such as James webb and Isaiah Taylor“, said this Friday the Segovian coach.
Fisac has recognized that his rival has players whom he admires and appreciates, “such as Radovic or lime“, and predicts” a very difficult game “, because it is a team whose” degree of concentration is very solid. “
In short, the coach considers that it will be a “very important” clash, although “it was also going to be the one in Bilbao” on Friday, postponed by positive covid-19 in the Basque team.
“So much Murcia What Bilbao they have clear objectives. There are certain details that you modify and now we have had to change or rectify it, “he explained. Fisac Regarding the change of strategy due to the postponement of the game this Friday.
In that sense, the coach of the Gran Canaria team acknowledges that he would have “liked to play today” against the Retabet Bilbao Basket, given that “they had everything very planned” and, with the last minute changes, “that week the dynamics of training and the structure changed”.
Fisac has stressed that the final stretch of the league “has an extra motivation for everyone”, both in the lower-middle zone of the classification and in the fight for the “playoff” and, therefore, “there are usually surprises”.
The coach has acknowledged that “it is not easy to square the calendar” and that all teams and players “are at ease.” However, he believes that now the objective should be “is to finish the league being the most competitive, without distorting it.”
“We have to save this year together for the future of basketball,” he added, to also explain that there are some complications in the squad, specifically with Balcerowski Y Albicy, Besides that Kilpatrick He has had to travel to the United States for personal reasons.
The clash between Herbalife Gran Canaria Y UCAM Murcia, corresponding to matchday 35 of the Endesa League, will be held this Sunday, May 2 at 6:00 p.m. (Canary time) at the Gran Canaria Arena.