New season, and with it, renewed illusions for this next campaign. This is how the season faces Leyma Básquet Coruña, one of the “roosters of the category”. After a last season suspended due to the COVID-19 crisis when the team was better (3rd classified only behind Carramimbre Valladolid and Delteco GBC), Leyma Básquet Coruña will have their revenge in one of the LEB Oro more open in recent years.
The division of the competition into 2 groups and the reduction of promotion places only one has caused panic among the teams that are candidates for promotion, among which is the Herculine club. Leaving the situation of the competition behind, we are going to focus on what concerns us, the analysis of the squad that the Galician team will have in this 2020-21 season.
The beginning of the preseason has been good, although we still need to get a little more rhythm and finish establishing the roles within the template. This will not be easy for Sergio garcia, and is that the Gipuzkoan coach has a extensive squad full of quality players that can be decisive in the different phases of the game.
DIRECTION OF PLAY: We begin the dissection of the template with the base post, where compared to last season the club will have two bases and not three. Augustas Peciuckevicius y Gaizka Maiza will be in charge of having the team baton, repeating position compared to last season, and thus demonstrating the confidence of Sergio García in both. The great novelty in the base position came with Pablo Ferreiro. At the beginning of summer, Leyma Básquet Coruña announced the renewal of the Lugo base, a player much loved by the Coruña parish. However, a few weeks after Ferreiro’s renewal was announced, the club announced the termination of contract of the player, who was heading to Liberbank Oviedo.
OUTDOOR GAME: In the outdoor posts (guard and forward) we find an overbooking of players who have many points in their hands. If we talk about escorts we have to refer to Zach Monaghan, American player who returns to Coruña after passing through Hungary, and will live his third stage in the Galician city. As for the rest of the outside players, it would be difficult to specify whether they are guards or forwards, so we will talk about the players in general. Osvaldas Matulionis, Romaric Belemene, Dagoberto Peña and Taiwo Badmus make up the outside posts along with the aforementioned Zach Monaghan. With these five players we will see a very physical outside game, led by Romaric Belemene, and a very scorer, where Dago Peña is called to have the leadership of the team in this sense.
INDOOR GAME: To close the staff of Leyma Básquet Coruña we have to talk about interior positions, positions that are not badly covered either. The Perris Blackwell and Abdou Thiam continuity Compared to last season, it was good news for the Herculean public, but the signings are also exciting. Javi Vega, Mouhamed Barro and Rolandas Jakstas they were the three signings undertaken by the Galician club as a finishing touch to the summer and to create an aspiring squad. The trio of players named above have LEB Gold experience, something that in seasons like these is very important due to the mentality you have to have to face such a tough competition as the second division of national basketball.
THE BET: JAVI VEGA. The great bet of Leyma Básquet Coruña is called Javier Vega Merayo, and it seems to me that it does not need much more introduction. The Madrid power forward arrived in Coruña this summer from San Pablo Burgos, and for the A Coruña team it is a luxury to be able to count on a player as decisive as Javi Vega. After a stage of more to less in Burgos, Vega chose to go down a step and return to LEB Gold, competition in which the current BCL champion, San Pablo Burgos, was left. Much is expected of Javi Vega this season at Riazor, and if all goes well, the herculean public will be able to fully enjoy their team and the mega bet that Vega’s incorporation has been.
