Grimau should pay close attention to the examples of Jasikevicius and Pesic

of We suffered a loss against Armani Milan yesterday. (86-90) Confirmed what became an open secret: Roger Grimaud’s Barça are in crisis.

blaugrana Chain three consecutive setbacks Even worse, The last two had arrived at the fort in Palau’s Blaugrana a few days ago.

A “horrible week” for Barça started last Sunday Casademont Zaragoza Track (101-99) And just when it looked like a return home would help the team get back on track; Two unexpected defeats (82-83 against BAXI Manresa and 86-90 against Armani Milan already mentioned) they have All alarms were activated at the Barcelona club. And just a few days ago, the people of Grimau were thrown into a completely unexpected situation.

This is definitely This is the Curé team’s worst losing streak since Roger Grimaud went to the bench. but This is not a new situation in the recent past of the Barcelona club.

In fact, the previous tenant of Barça Bench was Sarnas JasikeviciusI’ve already experienced a similar situation several times…but in all of them, Know how to win the next match and never chain four consecutive losses.

This is the first time a Lithuanian player has failed to win three matches. There were frightening similarities with the current situation.: After the away loss to Baskonia (94-75) Palau Blaugrana suffered a setback for the second year in a row… They faced the same rivals, Manresa (95-96) and Milan (73-75).. can’t believe it.

In the next match, Salas’ team won against Efes (82-77), but then lost again against UNICS Kazan (70-64), equaling the Blaugrana’s current record.

The second time was in March last year, after winning eight consecutive games. Jasikevicius’ team lost to Zaragoza (85-83), Olympiakos (77-70) and Fenerbahce (81-73), just six days apart.

The big difference with this incident is that at that time, Barça He signed every defeat as a visitor..

For Pesic, the more common situation

Before the arrival of Salas Jasikevicius, the tenants of Barça’s bench were legendary. Svetislav PesicHe is Barça’s first ever Euroleague manager, but he is also… experienced some unpleasant moments As director of the Curé Project.

December 2018, Barça He managed to add 5 losses in 6 gamesafter losing to Fenerbahce and Buduknost in the Euroleague, they defeated Tenerife in the Endesa League, Three consecutive losses against Real Madrid, Unicaja and Olympiacosbefore returning to winning ways.

May 2019, Barça Lost to Joventut, Efes and Baskonia. Before winning against Gran Canaria…and losing again to Valencia Basket.

And at the beginning of 2020 he was alive Circumstances dating back to the current situation: Loss against Baskonia, victory against Burgos, then three consecutive losses against Efes, Bilbao and Maccabi, then a win again.

Thus, Grimau’s two predecessors on the Barça bench experienced very similar situations, but They knew how to reverse the situation in time and not chain four consecutive losses That would be a huge blow to the team’s morale, which has already been somewhat affected.

Sito Alonso and his embarrassing bad record

And to finally find the truly worst period in the basketball department of the Barça club, you have to: Go back 6 yearsuntil the (short) period when Sito Alonso was on the local bench of the Palau Blaugrana.

After starting the season well with 5 consecutive wins, Barça experienced a chain reaction at the beginning of the 2017/18 season… up to 5 consecutive losses!

Azulgrana was collapsing chronologically. Against Red Star, Estudiantes, Zalgiris Kaunas, Armani Milan and Murcia.

But if that’s not enough, a few months laterduring a fateful two weeks in December 2017, the people of Sito “Mark” got even worse and extended his losing streak to 6!

The pilgrimage of shame began with home games against Fenerbahce (68-83) and Tenerife (91-93), followed by Real Madrid (87-75) and then Gran Canaria in Palau (77-88). . Unicaja (83-90) ended this set defeat on Baskonia’s court (85-82).

in fact, The end of Sito Alonso’s time at Barça came amid a run of poor results, with eight defeats in ten games.However, with all due respect to the truth, the engineer He was fired for his seventh setback in nine games.…and Pesic completed his latest loss in his bench debut.

As for curiosity, Cito Alonso says he has ended his tenure as Barça manager with more defeats (21) than wins (19) During the 40 games he was on Barça’s bench.

Bartzoukas and Xavi Pascual couldn’t get past three wins in a row

Before the arrival of Greek Sito Alonso Georgios Bartsokas He is the former manager of Barça and despite the fact that the results were not as expected and he managed to add 5 losses in 6 games and 7 losses in 10 games. I have never lost more than 3 times in a row..

as Xavi Pascual didn’t bother them either After winning the Euroleague in 2010, Barça fans suffered the worst losing streak in memory. 201 Euroleague Quarterfinal Playoffs2, exactly against Olympiakos of Bartzoukas, and 2015 and 2016 Endesa League Finalsboth against Real Madrid, who lost the final three games of the series, giving their historical arch-rival the league title.

Will Grimau learn from the example of Jasikevicius and Pesic? Or Bartzokas or XP’s…or will it continue? Sito Alonso’s bad path?

The answer will be after this Sunday’s game against Baskonia.