Valencia Basket-Barça post-game quotes: Álex Mumbrú

29/10/2023

“I think the most important thing and what needs to be highlighted about the game is Fonteta. Thank you for coming, for being, for supporting us. For suffering, living, for rejoicing with us. I think it has been the totally differentiating factor and it has been the sixth player. The seventh, the eighth. They have been incredible throughout the game from minute 1. They have gotten us into the game when our start was not good. And they have put us in the game and we have to thank them. I commented a week ago that I wanted them to come and the response has been incredible. Thank you from me, from the Club, from the players and the coaching staff. We have noticed them very very close. Of the game we were good in the second quarter, not very good in the first in the first three minutes. In the third quarter we were not good, there were moments in which we were not very fluid, and it was difficult for us to share the ball. We have not been able to score, Barcelona has changed its defense and it has taken us a bit to find better options. But we have stuck to our defense, which has once again been at a very high level. We have led Barça to score 68 points and with moments in which in the last second of possession they have scored a triple or some basket of merit totally from Barcelona. In Zalgiris, all 12 players scored, today they scored 11. In the team, we are 15 plus two players who go up and down like Marí and De Larrea. There are almost 17 of us and these victories are important because Kassius was not there today. It is important for Martin, for Ferrando, for the people who climb. It is a victory for all of us who are improving every day in training. Sometimes some are left out, other days are different. But it is a victory for the 15 or 17 of us who have been training every day since August.”


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