The new coach of Casademont Zaragoza, Sergio HernandezHe stressed that it had been “difficult” for him to give up continuing to direct the Argentine basketball team but that in life you have to make decisions.
“It was difficult. It would have been easier if the regulations that exist in ACB had allowed both things to be combined, but it is not like that. It was a great pain to finish with the National Team “, has indicated.
To this aspect he added that he has a mixed feeling, the joy of taking on the challenge of a historic team, but with the difficulty, which made him doubt, of leaving the position of coach.
“In life you have to make decisions and I made the one I thought was the most correct”, He stood out at the presentation press conference as the new coach of the Aragonese team.
In addition, he assured that he was “very happy” because being part of the ACB League was an opportunity that he had been waiting for “a long time”.
In the same way, he pointed out that I had had other offers but that they had not seemed interesting to him: “Life is made of moments. He had been with the national team for many years and he is fine but sometimes you spend eight or nine months in the office and the coach is like the player, he needs rhythm. I was in need of action. “
El Oveja pointed out that the hand set is a historical team and that it is part of the culture of the city, something that attracts him a lot.
“Years ago I followed León Najnudel, that he was a coach in Zaragoza and that on his return to Argentina he created the National League. He was born because of what he lived here. From then on, everything that was Zaragoza was part of our basketball ”, he explained.
The coach born in Munro (Argentina) commented that when he received the offer from the Aragonese team, he did not pay attention to whether he was classified well or badly, but rather to the fact that there was a historical team that was thinking about him.
“I know almost all the ACB squads peror in which there are more Argentines because it was my job. I have seen the eight Casademont Zaragoza games and it still seems to me that it has a greater potential than it has shown and that for the coaches is always a great challenge ”, he reflected.
Asked about what type of basketball he would like his team to practice, he revealed that he hopes it will be vertical, without falling into haste and precipitation and that this leads to mistakes.
“You have to try to increase the speed of the game, be more aggressive, knowing how to use the first ten seconds of possession to score points but at the same time intimidate the rival and not allow them to take the initiative defensively and in defense have a very strong balance ”, he indicated.
“You have to focus the team on the game and whether it wins or loses it does so with the same idea in addition to the fact that when it plays, it is not aware of the score and of the game,” he added.
On the presence of the Argentine forward Nicolas Brussino in the team, which he knows well because he was runner-up in the world with Argentina with him on the bench, stressed that he loves him “very much” and that he is a “great” boy.
“I directed it in Peñarol. He was our most decisive player and he went directly to the NBA. It was something strange, the normal thing is to play in Europe first, but it does not surprise me because he is a player in his purest form. I hope that my arrival will help him to continue growing, but fundamentally what any player has to do is do things so that the team wins ”, he mentioned.
The already ex-technician of the albiceslete team mentioned that his objective is to be “up” in the classification and that, for this, he wants to “help the team play well.”
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