Pre-Christmas visit to Bilbao with BAXI Manresa looking for the 7th
This Sunday at 17:00 the Manresa team will visit a court where they have not won since 2021. Cameron Hunt will travel with the team despite the inconveniences it entails and Guillem Jou is already working with the rest.
This week, BAXI Manresa faces the 12th round of the Endesa League at the Bilbao Basket court. The Basques are eager to add points, immersed in a streak of several defeats in the Endesa League. The Manresa team wants to continue adding points so as not to lose momentum with the leading group.
It has been an intense week in Nou Congost. Victory and comeback in the Basketball Champions League and Christmas events before preparing for the trip and this week's match in Bilbao. Diego Ocampo has Cameron Hunt and Guillem Jou, who has already trained with the team but according to the coach is not yet fully ready to play. The Bagencs are looking for their seventh victory on a court where they last won in 2021.
Jaume Ponsarnau's Bilbao Basket needs to break a bad streak. The 'men in black' have lost their last 5 games in the Endesa League and want to add a 4th victory. This is already the 3rd season of the Tàrrega coach in Biscay, where he has a team where the pair formed by the pivot Tryggvi Hlinason and the point guard Melvin Pantzar, who played 1 game with the BAXI Manresa shirt, stand out. One of the good additions this season has been that of the point guard Harald Frey, who has joined a team with experienced men like De Ridder, Jones or Dragic.
Diego Ocampo spoke before this matchday 12, saying that «they play with a lot of confidence and energy against all the teams; it will be a tough, difficult and very demanding game for us; Hlinason is a player who takes steps forward and dominates the paint: rebounding on offense, intimidating, occupying spaces... We have to continue working with mentality, going action by action».