The Copa del Reyanother year, returns the festive atmosphere to Spanish basketball. The tournament is seen as a unique opportunity, a maze in which anyone, regardless of budget or dynamics, is three games to be crowned as a new champion. At least … That is the reality of seven of the eight participants in the 2025 edition, as the Barcelona He has arrived in the Canary Islands with a great slab on his back. The Catalans are obliged to play a good role, almost to lift the trophy next Sunday, to prevent their project, after months of swings on the courts and in the offices, explodes definitively. Today, in his debut against Tenerife (21:30 hours, Movistar Plus), It can be seen which of its versions has reached the island.
It should be remembered that the Catalans were very close to running out of a cup for the first time in the last 58 years. Two consecutive losses against Girona and Joventut in the first week of January were close to the precipice, although finally their wide quality allowed them First league round. In fact, it was a reality that, if the team did not get the ticket for the Canary Islands, its coach, Joan Peñarroyait would be dismissed. Tarrasa’s managed to cross the Rubicón, but since then he lives with a target on the back, aware that a new draft stumbling could mean fulminating dismissal.
Something does not roar as it owes in the bowels of the club, which has a large template, well reinforced in summer with up to five category signings, but lacking its own soul and pride. Barça is able to chain four consecutive wins against several of the best teams in the Euroleague, as made a month ago against Paris, Monaco, Panathinaikos, and Epes, or to lose 17 points in their own home against Manresa . A duality in which the entire campaign has been stagnant, and that threatens to make an appearance in the Cup again, where a bad room can be an irreparable wound.
«We are going to Gran Canaria with the intention of winning the competition. From here, the only focus we have is in the game against Tenerife. We are sure that we can win any rival, as we can suffer against anyone. Last week against Maccabi, Olympiacos and Valencia we gave a good tone. Now we have to keep giving it, ”he said Peñarroya Before the debut of yours.
It is true that not all evils arise from the team’s nucleus, since the leaders of the sports section, Josep Cubells and Juan Carlos NavarroThey have not been exempt from controversy. It all started on November 24 in a duel against Baskonia, when Nicolás Laprovittola, one of the nuclear pieces of the Peñarroya scheme, broke the knee ligaments, a mishap that would leave him out of play what remained of the season. Of course, Barça was obliged to go to the market to replace the long -term decline of one of its headlines. However, once again, fiction surpassed reality.
First, Raul Neto was hired, but the Brazilian was prey to two serious muscle injuries, which only allowed him a player eight minutes with the Barca elastic in the two months he was in Barcelona. The experiment failed, the surprise jumped and the big flat Thomas Heurtelan old acquaintance, also with turbulent past, who seemed to fit with the needs of the Catalans, in addition to starring in a beautiful second chance after his departure in 2020. However, the Frenchman was abandoned at the El Prat airport and, then then , it was decided that no one else would be signed. Even Peñarroya has requested in public reinforcement for the base position, but their regrets have taken the wind.
«The equipment is built throughout the year, with the day to day. The idea is not to use injuries as something motivational, I will not set up a 300 -type movie. The equipment is growing, assimilating. If the team channels the problems well. Not that a reset has to be done, we are in a special week. The team thinks you can do a very good week. With that idea we go, we and surely the other seven teams, ”concluded the coach.
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