Qualifying for the final phase of the African Basketball League was the most important, regardless of Petro de Luanda’s performance in the Kalahari conference, according to the club’s president, Tomás Faria.
“The most important thing was to get through. If that didn’t happen, then it would be a disaster”, he stressed.
Speaking to the press, in Pretoria, South Africa, at the end of the fourth and final game in which Petro lost to the host Cape Town Tigers, 78-84, he pointed out the weak internal competition as one of the impeding factors for the increase in the competitive level of your team.
On the competition stage since Saturday morning, Tomás Faria said it was a situation known to the entire management of his club, given that in the last four years Petro de Luanda has been a regular in the competition.
“This has influenced our performance. We had some difficulties in almost every game, where we conceded over seventy points,” she noted.
Until qualifying for the final, Petro lost in the first round against Fus Rabat from Morocco (73-82), beat Cape Town Tigers from South Africa (100-88), and triumphed again against Moroccans from Fus Rabat ( 89-86) and on Saturday a new defeat against the host Cape Town Tigers (78-84).
In turn, the Angolan ambassador to South Africa, Rui Xavier, said that in sporting terms, Petro was unable to achieve the victories that all Angolans expected.
“The team is still not well integrated. There are difficulties in three-point shots,” he explained.
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