The data and sensations leave no room for doubt. Willy Hernangomez He signed his best score in his second season as a Barça player, in the defeat suffered by the team of Joan Peñarroya, ante Paris Basketball, by 87-103, in a duel in which the Gauls were superior and deserved the victory.
The Madrid center contributed 12 points, three rebounds and three assists for 21 rating credits. A Euroleague, Willy returned to the court after two consecutive absences: on matchday eight, before Baskonia discarded by Peñarroya in the roster of 12, and after not having had any minutes in last Wednesday’s game against Partisan. Two duels in which Barça scored the victory.
His best score of the season
The 12 goals scored exceed the limit so far, which was 11, ante Olympiacos and Red Star, the same as in Endesa League, ante Leyma A Coruña.
After finishing the game, Willy kindly attended the SPORT microphones to comment that he had failed in the match against Paris, as well as explain the feelings he had had on the court, in a Palau that applauded his good performance.
“In the key minutes and moments they knew how to play better, we had mistakes and they knew how to take advantage of them. I have tried to give everything, give my all in every possession and every play to try to help make a comeback. It has not been enough, and we will try to be better in the next one,” he commented.
Willy Hernangómez scored 12 points in the Euroleague game against Paris / ACB Photo – Marc Graupera
A terribly evenly matched Euroleague
A Willy who, like the rest of his teammates, sees how Barça has fallen to the bottom fifth position of the classification after having started the day as the leader, the result of the tremendous equality that is being experienced in the first third of the championship.
“We are in a very even Euroleague, everyone is very tight, and after each game, the classification table will change a lot. We have to approach each match as a final, and we have to give everything, being aware that each match adds a lot to us. “Paris played better during the 40 minutes and the victory is for them.”
Hernangómez did not shy away from the question about his participation in the team, being one of the most ‘affected’ due to the rotations that Peñarroya has been announcing throughout the course, and that have left him without minutes in several matches in these first months of the season.
Willy Hernangómez, ante Breogán / ACB Photo – Carlos Castro
Willy’s words about his minutes
“I accept anything that benefits the team. I am another teammate, one more player. Whether they make me rest or not play, in the end a teammate is playing with the same shield on his chest and we have to support him. The only thing I can do is control my attitude, control my training and try to be better every day, be prepared for when the opportunity arrives, as it happened against Paris, and to move forward,” he commented.
We must not forget that in the Euroleague, Willy has not played two games due to the coach’s decision, and that in the remaining eight With difficulty he overcomes the quarter of an hour on the track. Before Paris, 13 minutes and 45 seconds what They fell short for Peñarroya, as he assumed at a press conference.
Willy Hernangómez, in a match with Barça this season / SPORT
This coming Sunday, starting at 6:30 p.m. (CET), Willy will have a new opportunity to vindicate himself and help Barça achieve a necessary victory in the Endesa League. Valencia Basket They will not make it easy, arriving at the Palau with only one defeat and five victories. In ACB, he registers 14 minutes and 12 seconds on average per match, and as the player acknowledges, it is within his power, with his attitude and performance in training, to have more minutes on the court.
