Porfi Fisac: We have an obligation to win” against Lenovo Tenerife

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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 25 Mar The coach of the Gran Canaria Basketball Club, Porfi Fisac, considers that his team has “an obligation to win” against Lenovo Tenerife in the island derby of the Endesa League this Saturday. In his opinion, the victory of Gran Canaria is “an obligation”, because otherwise they would move away “from the upper part”, that is what worries him, as he indicated, and not the history of defeats against the Tenerife team. The ranking “forces you to win”, he said at a press conference. “If they play better than us we will congratulate them”, but on a personal and professional level “I don't allow myself to think that the favorite is the rival playing in Gran Canaria”, because the yellow team “does not enter the Arena to lose”. Lenovo Tenerife “has been making templates with great judgment for years, getting it right for many years,” he said, so “they are doing very well in terms of workforce planning”. On this occasion “it doesn't matter who wears the shirt” because “he has to know that our fans need to win these matches”. Regarding the player Giorgi Shermadini stressed that “he is very good, an excellent player” and a “compensated” professional. Regarding the signing of Kenny Chery, he confirmed that “he will debut yes or yes” because “there is no time to lose, and more with the minutes of some players in EuroCup”. It has “different characteristics, with more offensive verticality, superior shooting range” and that “needs to be adapted”. With Chery “he has signed, in addition to being a good player, a good person”, that is very important for the locker room and “he has to play at the best level from day one”. Regarding A.J. Slaughter's septum operation, he pointed out that the mask has already arrived and we will have to “see what feelings he has with it” because, “although it is not the best situation, “it is a match where the help of all players is vital”. He explained that in this match, “the degree of success will be key, which will define with more or less rhythm who takes the cat into the water”, within two “different” game concepts, since while Lenovo Tenerife has a “structured and organized game, and they know how to take basketball maximum control with important game knowledge”, the Gran Gran Canaria “proposes a basketball with more errors but also with more dynamism”. The team is “mentally prepared to play this game” because although there are many games a week in the coach's opinion “difficulties lead us to become more mature and more solid”, and that implies that “something good is going to happen”, according to the coach.