BAXI Manresa wants to continue the good momentum in Bilbao
Diego Ocampo's team travels to the Basque capital this Friday to face one of the best-performing teams this season. Dani Pérez and Louis Olinde are included in the squad, while Hugo Benítez and Retin Obasohan will miss the match due to injury.
After a revitalizing victory against Joventut, BAXI Manresa now packs up for its penultimate trip of the regular season. It's time to visit Miribilla, a complicated track where not many victories have been achieved in recent years.
BAXI Manresa is still smiling on this 27th matchday, after a home victory against Penya that has renewed the spirits of the team and the environment. Now it's time to play away from Nou Congost, against a very good team. A new challenge for the Manresa team to confirm that they can continue to be competitive against big teams. Retin Obasohan and Hugo Benitez are out, while Louis Olinde returns to the squad after weeks, also with Dani Pérez, who could get minutes again.
Bilbao Basket is another team that has an important European commitment in the coming days: Jaume Ponsarnau's team faces PAOK from Thessaloniki in the final of the FIBA Europe Cup, a final that is played over two legs. The "men in black" are having a great season: they are ninth and aspire to be among the top 8 and to play in the play-offs.
Coach Diego Ocampo, in the press conference with the media, said that «they have a very good position in the standings, many victories at home because they are playing very well; they are playing the final of their European competition, they have had close matches that they have played very well with cool blood; they have a lot of merit in what they have done, building a team with new players; we know the difficulty of playing in Miribilla and against them».