GameLab G20: BAXI Manresa - Río Breogán
BAXI Manresa receives a Río Breogán team eager to get away from relegation after winning on the last game.
After the narrow victory achieved in Palencia, BAXI Manresa receives a visit from Río Breogán that increasingly sees it as possible to get out of the relegation positions. The Galician team, coached by Veljko Mrsic, has won two in its last three matches, both at home against direct rivals such as Granada and Girona. Those from Lugo are the seventeenth classified in the ACB with a balance of 6 wins and 13 losses, barely tied with the two rivals above them in the standings, and they have only managed to win twice as visitors.
Who contributes the points to Breogán?
Breogán's average score is the lowest in the entire competition, 75.2 points per game. The man who is the key scoring figure of the Galician team is the American guard Ben McLemore, with an average of 10.3 points per game. The men from Velko Mrsic's team who stand out the most in scoring are Stefan Momirov (9.9 points), Sergi García (9.6 points), Matas Jogela (8, 8 points) and Juan Fernández (8.7 points).
The duel: BAXI Manresa vs Río Breogán
Despite the difference in position in the classification, BAXI Manresa and Río Breogán maintain some equal statistics.
The maximum equality can be found in offensive rebound, where the Catalans are the leader of the statistics, with an average of 13.32 offensive rebounds per game, while the Galicians are the third most dominant team, with 11.42.
We also found great equality in the blocking statistics, where Breogán maintains a higher average than Bages. The Galicians are the third team with the most blocks per duel, 4 blocks. For its part, BAXI Manresa is the fifth team in the statistics with an average of 3.53 blocks per game.
In overall statistics, BAXI is more superior.
As for points in favor, the Catalans are the 5th team with the best score in the Endesa League with 84.4 points per game, compared to 75.2 for the Galicians, which places them as the worst team in the statistics.
Finally, in terms of rating, BAXI Manresa obtains an average of 89.8 credits per game, while Río Breogán obtains 78.6.
The shooting %
The 3-point shot: BAXI Manresa 32.7% / Río Breogán 30%
The shot of 2: BAXI Manresa 52.7% / Río Breogán 48.5%
The free throw: BAXI Manresa 75.1% / Río Breogán 72.6%
Background
The Breogán River has a total of 28 visits to the Nou Congost, of which it has achieved 9 victories.
In their last visit to the capital of Bages, the Galicians managed to beat the Manresa team with a large score of 70-106, on matchday 6 of the last Liga Endesa.
BAXI Manresa's last victory against the Lugo team was on November 14, 2021 with a result of 86-75, on the tenth day of the 2021-22 ACB season.
The Old-knowns
Martynas Sajus: He was a BAXI Manresa player during the 2020-21 season.
Sergi García: He was part of the BAXI Manresa squad on loan during the 2018-19 season.
Jordan Sakho: He arrived at BAXI Manresa in 2016 and left the club in 2021.