BAXI Manresa also faces a key month of March in the Champions League

Pallacanestro Reggiana is BAXI Manresa's next opponent in the BCL. The Catalans travel to Reggio Emilia on Tuesday to visit one of the contenders for the Champions League quarter-finals. A team with quality and a desire to be a protagonist in the competition. A difficult visit.

BAXI Manresa is preparing for the BCL match after a defeat - but playing a great game in Malaga. The players available for Diego Ocampo will travel to northern Italy with one man to be discarded. This is the third matchday of the Top16 phase, and each match is crucial for the chances of qualifying. The Italians and Catalans have a tied 1-1 record, and this match will decide who follows Tenerife closely, currently the leader of group K.

The Italians lost on the first matchday in Tenerife but on the second, despite playing away, they achieved a valuable victory in Turkey, on the court of Petkimspor. They have players of great quality and statistical productivity, such as the ex-NBA player Kenneth Faried or the outside scorers Winston and Barford. A total of 5 American players, including Kwan Cheatham, last season in Granada, or the shooting guard who was in Andorra, Michele Vitali. A team with plenty of quality and very focused on having a good Basketball Champions League.

The assistant coach Carlos Flores and the power forward Marcis Steinbergs appeared before the game. Flores explained that Reggiana «is a very good team, very well-worked, with offensive dynamism, an outside line -Winston, Smith, Barford- with scoring capacity and a lot of outside threat and many different ways of scoring; we will need to be a solid team in defense and try to reduce these individualities.» The Latvian said that «I think we are doing well, still adapting a little but improving every day; Every game is important at this stage because there are no weak or bad teams. This week we have a tough game ahead of us and we have to be ready from the start.»