Restart after break for BAXI Manresa with a complicated visit to Unicaja
The team from Bagencs faces Unicaja at the Martín Carpena. It is one of the most in-form rivals on the continent, which has just been proclaimed champion of the King's Cup. The novelty in BAXI Manresa is Armel Traoré, who could make his debut.
After 2 weeks of the FIBA window with post-King's Cup matches, BAXI Manresa resumes the competition by visiting one of the most difficult courts in the championship: that of Unicaja. The Malaga team, brand new Cup champions, will receive Diego Ocampo's team, which could debut the new signing: Armel Traoré.
Matchday 21 of the Endesa League brings BAXI Manresa to Malaga. A team that has won titles in recent seasons (2 King's Cups, Super Cup and Basketball Champions League). The Reds want to continue with the same competitive rhythm that has led them to compete in the Copa del Rey and to be one of the surprises of the season. In addition, they want to do so by adding to the squad a very recent signing: the power forward Armel Traoré, a 22-year-old Frenchman with a height of 2.03 who has arrived in Nou Congost from the Lakers.
Unicaja has maintained a very stable group of players for a few seasons now and this has translated into results. The former coach of Bàsquet Manresa Ibon Navarro has achieved continuity that has brought titles to the club and that has the team in a very sweet moment. In the last match they played, they won the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid. The Carpena team are second in the standings with 15 wins and 5 losses.
Diego Ocampo appeared before the media, declaring that "Unicaja will not be out of the loop, since Ibon Navarro has been there they have enormous competitiveness, in all tournaments: they are a very complete team where the coach manages the players he has very well; the rebound will be decisive, and also the control of the ball; we must know how to play with rotations of a few minutes and a lot of intensity".