Bàsquet Girona plays this afternoon in Huesca in a match of the fourth day of LEB Or that has been hanging by a thread all week. A positive for coronavirus in the coaching staff of the Aragonese team forced the suspension of last weekend’s Canoe – Huesca and, at the outset, it seemed that it would also prevent today’s game. The new tests, with all the negative Huesca staff, and the change of day from yesterday evening to this afternoon (19.00, laligaesports.tv), have ended up giving the green light to a match where Bàsquet Girona will meet a player who will bring back, if some discomfort in the ankle does not prevent it, the nostalgia among the old fans of Valvi: Ignacio Rosa. A pivot winger 2.07 tall and 21 years old and more fond of throwing triples than fighting under a basket that remembers, inside the track, his father. Juan Rosa played in the ACB with Valvi in two stages between 1989 and 1995, with the help of the now new coach of Uni Alfred Julbe, who took him to Girona from the Youth, where he had already been working on converting pivot to high eaves. In his five seasons at Valvi, in between he played one in Murcia, Juan Rosa still holds the record for his good from the three-point line with a plant that, for example, allowed him to be runner-up in the competition. shattered 1989 behind Rickie Winslow and the feeling that injuries prevented him from ending up being a major player in state basketball.
If Juan Rosa trained in Badalona, where he reached the age of 16, his son Ignacio did it in the Unicaja base basketball, which took him from the teams of Los Barrios, a club where his father retired playing at LEB in 2002. European Under-20 runner-up with the Spanish national team, Ignacio Rosa left Unicaja after two transfers to LEB Oro, Oviedo and Castellón, to begin his third year in the category with only 21 years old. Their “open four” game fits perfectly in the style of the Aragonese because, as Carles Marco pointed out yesterday, “Huesca is a team with very dynamic players, with players smaller than Castellón and Alicante, with five open and talented to look for the 1x1s that play more by concepts and not as structured as Alicante or Castellón ».
A game that fits well with the way of seeing the basketball of Ignacio Rosa who, playing four starters in the two games that Huesca has been able to play, has shot more three-point shots (1st) than two ( 8). With 11 points and 3 rebounds per game, Rosa is one of the important pieces of the Aragonese next to the Catalan pivot Ramon Vila and the three little ones who play outside: Cubilan, Parejo and the American Carter. For today’s match, Huesca coach David Gómez is also recovering winger Jorge Lafuente, who was unable to play two weeks ago against Murcia because he had been in close contact with a coronavirus positive. So far, Huesca has lost the two games it has played: on the court of Granada (89-75) with 21 points from Carter and 16 from Vila; and in his pavilion against Murcia (69-82) with 11 points from Vila and 11 more from Rosa.
“I don’t know if they will be anxious to win the first game, or how they will react after being confined and having to stop training, but we are focused on making the best possible game looking at the things we are not doing well.” explained yesterday Carles Marco, who tried not to magnify the concern at the club for the performance of Davis Rozitis in this start of the League. It worries us all, but we must try to relativize it; he had always had good percentages near basket and in those three games he has not had them. We have to give him confidence and he has to give it to us so that his teammates keep looking for him. He is training well and things will work out for him.
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