Pınar Karşıyaka, who established one of the most costly and ambitious squads in its history at the beginning of this season with the goal of a trophy in basketball, said goodbye to her dream of championship in Europe early, without even seeing the Play-Off stage in the FIBA Champions League, and angered her fans with her performance in the league in the last weeks.
In the Basketball Super League, where it rose to the top at the beginning of the season, Karsiyaka, which has experienced a great decline in the last period, took its third consecutive defeat at home, after Bursaspor and Türk Telekom, with a 78-70 defeat to the lower-ranked Büyükçekmece.
One week before the end of the regular season, Karşıyaka lost its field advantage in the Play-Off, with 17 wins in 29 matches and largely throwing the towel in the first 4 races, as well as the possibility of being matched with Fenerbahçe Beko or Anadolu Efes in the first round. Fans were harshly criticizing the transfer preferences at the beginning of the season and the performance of the high-cost squad established in the period when exchange rates were rising on social media. Coach Ufuk Sarıca, who has given the team historical success before, said, “This is the squad we have, we need to be close to each other. Such difficult situations can happen. We have been losing consecutive losses for the first time in a long time. However, the Play-Off time is different.”
Ergin KARATAŞ / İZMİR, (DHA)
