By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
FC Bayern Munich forced Barcelona to a playoff scoring low to take the win in Game 4 and force the series to return to Barcelona with exceptional defense for 40 minutes.
Barca head coach Sarunas Jasikevicius did not take the defeat lightly, especially in such a manner. “I hope the players are ashamed. I’m ashamed”, he told the media following the game. “The culprit is not the coach, nor the referee, nor the opponent, the culprit is you”.
Jasikevicius further commented on the officiating crew, expressing his discontent about certain calls. “If you look at the situations, there are a lot of ugly fouls. Not a lot, sorry, but once or twice per game, a lot of ugly fouls have been missed that could injure our players,” he said, as adapted by basketnews.com.
“Rolands Smits could be out for a while in Game 3. Dante Exum could be out in Game 1. After his amazing dunk, watch the next play. It hasn’t been reviewed and it hasn’t been called a normal foul. Okay, it’s a playoff basketball and that’s not why we lost today”.
“It’s very difficult to understand how this team can change so much in 48 hours. To change from this wonderful basketball-playing team to completely unrecognizable. I already said we’ll have a lot of ups and downs like this with this personnel. We must get through them and find a way to play better basketball,” Jasikevicius further stated.