An improved Unicaja visits BAXI Manresa
This Saturday at 20:45 the Nou Congost will live the 17th matchday. The Manresa team want to continue improving and competing, now at home, even though they have sick players affected by a virus.
BAXI Manresa will close the first round of the Endesa League 2022-2023 at the Nou Congost with the visit of a complicated rival, an Unicaja which has in its ranks former Manresa players David Kravish, Yankuba Sima and Ibon Navarro. The match will be at 20:45 and can be followed live through Movistar+ Deportes.
The team from Bages will start a marathon of matches as a home team tomorrow, with four duels in just twelve days. After starring in moments of great collective play on a Euroleague court like that of Valencia Basket, the team will look to keep improving to try to face the Malaga team side and fight for an expected fourth victory of the season that will allow them to get out of the positions of descent.
Unicaja will arrive in Manresa in a very good dynamic, winning 8 of the last 10 matchs in the top state competition, and with the need to add another triumph to have options to be the leader of the serie in the Copa del Rey of Badalona. Malaga are a very cohesive team, with seven players scoring 8 or more points in each math. One of them, Darío Brizuela, has stayed in Malaga, as he has just become a father. However, dangerous men like Tyson Carter, Dylan Osetkowski and Nihad Djedovic will play.
In the pre-match press conference, Pedro Martínez explained that "there are 2 players who have not trained due to a viral illness and I doubt they will be there tomorrow, but we will play with the others and we will do everything in our control; it's good news that we had 2 weeks to be all there, except for 'Tunde'; they have better players and a better team than last year, this year everything has fit very well for them, they have signed very well and they have a good coach, I really like the way they play, they are dynamic and aggressive in defence».