Coach changes always have that point of injustice that the rope is usually broken on the weaker side. When a team doesn’t quite reach the expectations created around them, it may be the demerit of the coach, but usually the players have something to do with it as well. Now, the coach is the one who usually pays for the broken plates … On Monday, just before his first contact with Alfred Julbe, the players of the Spar Girona heard, through the mouth of the sports director Pere Puig, that of them also n ‘they expected more. And they seem to have caught the message. The arrival of Julbe has raised the level of demand towards a squad that, for the moment, seems to have captured that, no matter how much there is no public in Fontajau and the rival is inferior, it is necessary to defend each rival attack as if it was a question of recovering a ball to him to the Perfumerías Avenue. They began to understand it on Tuesday in Bembibre, in front of a rival, much inferior and they have put it better in practice in front of an Ensino Lugo that, to the despair of its technician Carlos Cantero, has seemed to be much smaller than it really is activity in defense of a Spar Girona that has left the game resolved in the first half (45-21). Twenty-four points difference that, and this has been the best news of the day, did not end the team’s hunger until the final 88-53.
It didn’t take long before the players of Alfred Julbe came to terms with the score. The veteran coach has no mania when it comes to moving off the bench. Waiting for time to make big changes in attack, Julbe focuses his attention on the back. A very choral defense, trying to occupy the spaces well to reach the aids, and for that reason it often changes his five in track to maintain the intensity. Today, for example, in the 6th minute of the match, and with the team doing well (13-4), the new coach of Spar Girona has made four changes at once. Palau, Ferrari, Labuckiene and Júla Soler entered the track and, a minute later, Elonu replaced Araújo. The whole team changed in the first quarter.
With the team defending two points above what it did before the change of coach, Uni has more opportunities to run. And when he runs, he scores like never before (88 points scored have not been seen in Fontajau for a long time). And without depending on any particular player. Six points from Labuckiene opened the first big hole at the start of the second quarter (24-13) and, five minutes before the break, the visiting coach broke the silence of the Fontajau gap in a relentless boo. His team was already losing by more than twenty points and could not see the basket by far: 34-13.
María Araújo’s great form moment is nothing new now. Today he finished again with 13 points and 9 rebounds in 20 minutes. And five points in a row from the Galician pivot have left the difference at 24 points at halftime (45-21). Julbe’s few mortgages when it comes to thinking about how his team should play make Uni a more unpredictable rival. Julia Reisingerova and Giedre Labuckiene, two big five, can both match on the court and play with Sonja Vasic and Adaroa Elonu inside. Playing with two bases or without Palau or Gray, Júlia Soler having a few minutes in every quarter, Ferrari with more prominence than she had had so far … And, all in all, not losing face in the game until the end despite the clear differences in the marker. 88-53 and Alfred Julbe’s second convincing victory in his two matches with Uni.
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