BAXI Manresa has one last shot in Tenerife

The BCL Top 16 round ends this Tuesday. To advance in the competition, BAXI Manresa must win in Tenerife and hope Aliaga Petkimspor wins at Pallacanestro Reggiana. The Group K final will be played this Tuesday at 8:00 PM.

After Saturday's visit to Vitoria, it's time to put on their European competition gear again. BAXI Manresa travels to Tenerife this Monday for the final matchday of the BCL Top 16 group stage. Diego Ocampo's team will be without Cameron Hunt, still recovering from a hip injury, and Armel Traoré, who is injured in a knee injury.

La Laguna Tenerife, meanwhile, will be at the top of the group stage no matter what. They have not lost a single match (5-0), and no one can catch them. Although they have significant absences, like BAXI Manresa, Txus Vidorreta's team remains one of the competition's top teams and one of the most solid units on a continental level. Marcelinho, Shermadini, Kramer, Scrubb, and Doornekamp are all familiar faces. A very difficult team to beat.

Before the trip to Tenerife, assistant coach Carlos Flores and Bodian Massa made statements. The Barcelona coach noted that "the team is doing well; doing things the way we've been doing them this season will go well. Tenerife plays extraordinary basketball, is one of the best teams in Europe, with players of a very high level, and surely the best pick-and-roll team in Europe. They know how to play their cards very well, tactically they are extraordinary, it will be necessary to be able to take things to our field." Bodian Massa, for his part, pointed out that "the key will be to go out and play our game and compete, what we can control to put the best ingredients to win this game, we need to base ourselves on our principles; this is a team that plays with great experience, we can base ourselves on stopping Marcelinho or Shermadini, but every team tries and does it well equally."