By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Baskonia ranks 9th in the current standings and Granger breaks down the options on his EuroLeague blog. Take a read below:
If you look at the EuroLeague regular season standings, you will see that we are ninth overall, one win away from playoff territory. We have won our last two games, but so has Maccabi! We still have five games left to play, but four of them are at home and one of those is against Maccabi, in Round 29. Of course, that game will be the most critical in our fight to make it to the playoffs, but there are three games to be played before that one. If we do things right, win our home games and get a road win against Barcelona, we will make it to the playoffs.
It is easy to say, but of course winning five games in a row is a whole different story. I wish we could have easy wins in the EuroLeague. It is never easy! We may play against some of the teams that will not be in the playoffs, but any of them can beat you and we have a lot of examples. Milan just beat Khimki last week. Not so long ago, Valencia downed mighty CSKA at home. We have to play against Zalgiris, Bamberg, Maccabi and Efes at home, in that order and will visit Barcelona in Round 28. All of them will be very competitive games, but we will work hard to win them all.
Some people may think we have an advantage because we will not leave Spain until the end of the regular season. Well, that means we have traveled a lot during the season, right? We only played three of our first nine games at home. Playing so many games on the road led to a bad start to the season. Luckily, we are reaching the final games of this stage in good shape with a lot of home games to be played. We will see!
Read the rest of Granger’s blog here.