By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
With Barcelona players having their backs on the wall once the second half started, needing to recover against Monaco after already wasting a 15-point lead, Dario Brizuela took over, finishing with 17 points.
Drawing fouls, attacking the basket with ease, and banking in from beyond the arc, the former Unicaja‘s guard happened to be one of the inspiring assets to provide the 79-72 victory in Game 4 to Barca.
With only nine players from the first-team roster stepping onto the court, Joan Penarroya’s team was still able to get away with the win. “Very tired, but very happy. Now we enjoy what we can, and the next week it will be a final. We need to prepare it,” he said in the team’s locker room to Alex Molina.
🫡 Sin contar a “el gorila Willy Hernangómez”, Darío Brizuela lo tiene claro: “Quizás sí que tienen más calidad física… Hay que ponerse al nivel del partido, los árbitros han permitido algunas cosas y otras no. En general, hemos hecho un partidazo” pic.twitter.com/G6lmrGmETa
— Alex Molina (@alex30mp) May 2, 2025
“You need to play smart, it’s clear that they have more physical quality than we do. That’s basketball,” Barcelona’s #8 commented to draw a line between the team and their opponents.
Speaking about the criteria decided by referees in Barcelona’s defeat, commented on by Vassilis Spanoulis too, he was clear. “We need to put it at the level of the game, at he end, referees permitted certain things, and not others. You need to adjust to how the game is.”
“We had a hell of a game,” he added. A partidazo, as they say in Spain. Hopefully for Catalan fans, they will have another of these performances in the Principality.
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