GameLab G24: Joventut Badalona - BAXI Manresa

BAXI Manresa visits Badalona with the aim of putting an end to the good moment of the team led by Carlos Duran. The Badalona team have 6 consecutive games with victories and are eighth classified with a balance of 14 wins and 9 losses. The Manresans, led by Pedro Martínez, will seek to regain victory after being defeated in the last two ACB games, against Barça and UCAM Murcia.

Who contributes the points to Joventut?

Joventut Badalona's average score is 81.8 points per game. In the team led by Carles Duran, the most outstanding man in this aspect is Andrés Feliz. The point guard born in Santo Domingo scores an average of 14.2 points per game, which makes him the seventh highest scoring man in the Liga Endesa.

Despite having this great figure in scoring, Joventut have other players with a lot of capacity to score points, such as Andrew Andrews (13.4 pts), Ante Tomic (11.9 pts) , Shannon Evans (10.7pts) or Tyler Cook (8.5pts).

The duel: Tomic vs Geben

Ante Tomic (217cm) and Martinas Geben (208cm) are two of the most outstanding figures on their teams, especially in their dominance under the basket. We are talking about two pivots with great height who have great dominance in rebounding and a lot of danger in the interior zone. Ante Tomic is among the 10 men who get the most rebounds in the competition, occupying 8th position in the ranking with an average of 5.8 rebounds per game. For his part, the Lithuanian center from BAXI Manresa is the second player on Pedro Martínez's team with the most rebounds, an average of 4, only behind Devin Robinson (5.6 reb).

Thanks to their physicality and dominance in the paint, both centers maintain a high percentage of success in the 2-point shot, where Martinas Geben dominates, with 54.3% effectiveness, over Ante Tomic, with 53.7%.

This success in the shot of two places the two pivots with the following score averages per game: Ante Tomic 11.9 pts and Martinas Geben 7.3 pts.

With his performances and statistics, the center from Manresa finishes the duels with an average of 7.8 rating credits, while the Joventut Badalona player does so with 13.3 credits.

The shooting %

The 3-point shot: Joventut Badalona 36.4% / BAXI Manresa 32.3%

The shot of 2: Joventut Badalona 51.3% / BAXI Manresa 52.7%

The free kick: Joventut Badalona 75.1% / BAXI Manresa 74.5%

Background

BAXI Manresa has visited the difficult Joventut Badalona track a total of 45 times in the ACB, from where it has only been able to obtain 8 victories.

The last visit of Pedro Martínez's team in Badalona ended with a 73-65 defeat, in the match corresponding to matchday 19 of last season.

The most recent victory of the Manresans at the Olímpic de Badalona was on December 14, 2019, where after extra time, those from Bages defeated Joventut by 104-106 .

The Old-known

Aleix Duran : He was part of the Manresa staff in two stages: from 2003 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2018. In the 2017-18 season he served as first coach.