“You can’t remove a player in three minutes”
Barça coach, Roger Grimau complained about the refereeing criteria, especially in the last quarterfrom the final of the Copa del Rey basketball match in which his team lost to Real Madrid 96–85, hinting at elimination due to personal fouls by Jan Vesely.
“In three minutes, the great player Veseliy is sent off, but this cannot happen.”Maybe when you watch the video they will tell me this or that action, but the truth is that another player committed three fouls in 34 minutes. I like the way he plays, his intensity and the way he presses, but “It’s also incomprehensible that Willy Hernangomez is being given technical advice and told him this isn’t the NBA, kid.”– he remarked in a critical tone.
The Barça coach, who insisted that he did not want to make excuses for the refereeing when assessing Real Madrid’s victory, added that perhaps his players “didn’t know how to play in those moments in the face of such harshness.” Grimau, who was “very proud of the players’ efforts throughout the weekend”, praised his team for making a good start to the game, “with a very complete first half, control of the game and moving the ball well”.
“But in the third quarter they found us with two or three threes, opened the game, Then strange things happened and it was difficult for us because we had to row a lot.”“, said the Barça coach. The Catalan coach expressed confidence that this defeat in the cup final could help “the team unite even stronger than it is now and grow in the future,” concluded Grimau.