Inveready closes the regular league this Friday night (9:00 pm) in Amenabar Arena against Ourense with the playoff in … Game for Guipuzcoans and Orensanos. Mikel Odriozola has taken the calculator, but the accounts are clear for the blue and white squad. If you beat the Galician team, you will be in the playoff.
We will have to see what happens in the match between Tizona and Obradorio, to see if the GBC is eighth or ninth. Even losing, Inveready has options to sneak into the qualifiers for the ascent: if you tied only with Ourense, six points are worth it. If there were a triple draw with Tizona and the Galician painting, which would find the defeat of the Burgos against the Obradoiro, it would even be worth losing for 30 points. But Mikel Odriozola only wants one thing for this Friday’s game. “What team does not want to end the regular season winning at home?” Asks the Aiete coach. “We all know the accounts, but we want to win the game, the goal is to win the game.”
It is already palpated that one of these season end of the season evokes what are Playoff meetings, and a great entry in the Donostiarra pavilion is expected. “I have no doubt that people are going to help us and we have to assess that people have continued to support us throughout the season,” Odriozola certifies. “All help is welcome, and we are aware that we have made them suffer, hopefully we can enjoy them, and enjoy the game with us.”
The Gipuzkoa Basket coach reflects on what a match to sneak into the ascent playoff. «Looking at the classification, on day 23 we were tied with the descent. Ten days later everything has changed, ”says coach Donostiarra, who comments that“ if you tell me on that day 23 that we would have been here, because I would not have believed it. We are happy for this, but above all knowing that we have taken that out with a lot of work and that we want to try to finish it out, because for us, with the season it is, it would be a great joy and an important prize to get into the playoff with the dynamics that we are now, but we will have to row us ».
Among other things because his rival on the track, the Ourense, also looks for the playoff, although he must win the GBC for seven or more points. «It will be a very hard match, as they have been throughout the league. I think Ourense was one of the teams that best played in the beginning of the season and then he was doing things very well, taking games, but they also had themes of injuries that have changed the dynamics, having to restructure all the time. Now with the incorporation of Charles Barton they have achieved that stability ». Odriozola has no qualms about recognizing that “if it were in the stands I would look at what the other teams do (in reference to the Tizona or Cartagena match) but the players and the staff are clear that we must concentrate on winning, that is the goal.”
Odriozola assumes not having any preference for the three possible rivals they can touch. Students, Betis or Fuenlabrada. “The preference is that we have any, that would be the best,” says Odriozola. “I know how the draws go, I have taken them out, but I have not taken out who touches us if we stay in one place or another because I am not interested.” If that happens, tomorrow would not be the last game of the season at the Amenabar Arena.
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