BAXI Manresa wants to take advantage of the visit to Cluj-Napoca
The Reds face their seventh Eurocup match away against Romania, a team with the same record in the standings. Diego Ocampo has no players unavailable for the game.
BAXI Manresa travels to Cluj, Romania, this Tuesday for their Eurocup Round 7 game. The Bages team has an even win-loss record and aims to improve it. They visit a team with a strong roster and all players available for coach Diego Ocampo and his staff.
After a challenging week with two away games at Nou Congost, BAXI Manresa will play another away game in the coming days but will finish the week at home against Lleida. Now, they face a tough away game against U-BT Cluj-Napoca, a team tied with Manresa in the standings. The team has traveled with its full roster for the game.
The Romanian team boasts a roster that may sound familiar to fans, including Jeffery Taylor (formerly of Real Madrid). They compete in the ABA Balkan League, alongside teams like Partizan and Dubai Basketball. In the EuroCup, they have won two away games and one at home. In the EuroCup, Daron Russell is statistically outperforming his teammates, averaging 24 points and 6.7 assists per game. He is well supported by Dusan Miletic (13 points and 8 rebounds), Mitchell Creek (15.8 points and 4 rebounds), and Iverson Molinar (15.4 points).
Assistant coach Marc Estany said before traveling to Romania that «Cluj is a typical team in the competition, with very dangerous perimeter players with the ball, generating a lot of offense through Russell and Molinar, difficult to defend one-on-one, and dangerous in the pick and roll; in the paint, they have great balance and play very quickly: they are especially dangerous in the opening seconds of their offense.»