Pınar Karşıyaka will host the Italian team Happy Casa Brindisi in the final week of FIBA Champions League Play-Off Tour Group I, tomorrow with the goal of putting her name on the 8th Final in Europe.
The jump ball will take place at 19.30 at the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sports Hall. Hapoel Holon, the leader of the group, where the first 2 teams will continue on their way to the Champions League championship in the final of 8, guarantees the top round, while Karşıyaka has 2 wins in 5 matches and Brindisi has 3 wins before the last matches.
If the green-red team defeated their opponent, which was defeated by 83-79 with a difference of 4 points in the first match in Italy, by at least 5 points in the rematch, they will take the double average advantage and write their name in the finals. For a defeat or wins less than 4 points, Brindisi will be the winner. In Pınar Karşıyaka, which has determined its goal in Europe as the finals and then the cup, the status of M’Baye and Kennedy, the important names of the team with injuries, will become clear. Pınar Karşıyaka had risked the next round by losing the last 2 games she played in the Champions League.
FENERBAHÇE DISCUSSION CONTINUES
Following months of debut in ING Basketball Super League, Pınar Karşıyaka lost her third consecutive defeat by a 117-59 defeat to its closest rival Fenerbahçe Beko and missed the chance to take back her place in the scoreboard with 3 games remaining, the echoes of the management’s decision to play with the young team. progress. Pınar Karşıyaka, who decided to go to the match with the majority of the injured, and Mahir and the infrastructure in the squad are patented, except Arca, Çağatay, Yalım played with young people. In Karşıyaka, his assistant Recep Şen directed the team instead of Coach Ufuk Sarıca.
Pınar Karşıyaka, who started the fight with 5 locals and then gave a chance to foreigners, lost 58 points to Fenerbahçe, one of the heaviest defeats in the league’s history, falling 2 points behind his opponent for months and losing his second chance with 3 matches before the end. In Karşıyaka, which lost its last 5 games in the league and in Europe, many fans criticized the management’s decision to play a very important match with the youth and reminded that Fenerbahçe also came out of the double match week in the Euroleague and faced Barcelona 2 days ago. The fans argued that the tour was put at risk due to the surprise defeats before Holon and Tofaş in Europe, and when the request for postponement was not accepted, they emphasized that it was against the sportive spirit to go out with the young people. Some supporters criticized TBF’s attitude and supported the management decision. Karşıyaka was attacked by Greek fans on the road with Apoel in the Eurochallenge Cup in Southern Cyprus in the 2010-11 season, after which the Beşiktaş match was not postponed.
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