Lolo Encinas, in the Illunbe press room. /
LEB Oro
Acunsa GBC receives the Catalan team on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. with the very probable loss of Mikel Motos
Acunsa GBC receives Lleida in Illunbe on Sunday (6:00 p.m., LaLiga Sports TV) and Lolo Encinas has appeared this Friday to assess the work that has been done during the week and to analyze the match of the eleventh day of the LEB Oro.
The main news is that Mikel Motos’ ankle is not healing in the way expected and, except for a major surprise, the San Sebastian guard will not be available either. «Today he is not going to train either and I am almost sure that he will not be able to almost make it, it is going well, but it is a little more than we thought. He has been working all week but it will be very, very difficult for him to arrive ».
The defeat in Oviedo made clear the two main problems of the team: the rebound and the turnovers. Regarding the first aspect, Encinas has transmitted that «the first-line balls punish us a lot. I do not know if we will get in or not, but you have to shoot. If you fail it is another thing, but what we cannot do is lose balls that become easy points for them and that they do not work to score. We have insisted a lot on that during this week.
On the rebound, he has stressed that it is a job of the five. “It cannot be that we leave our pivots against those of the rival, because Badji and Carrera’s physique is excellent and all five of us have to go after him. When we have the rebound we can run, because if we don’t have it, it doesn’t matter how fast you are ».
Steinarsson said Tuesday that the team “lacks a fight,” and the manager is heading in that direction as well. “The team breaks down too quickly when it loses several balls or loses several rebounds in a row. We lose our activity and we must be clear: we have to go to each ball as if it were the last, and that is what we try to convey to the boys.
Del Lleida stressed that «he is playing very well, I call him Manresa de la LEB. He knows very well the roles that each player has, he plays very well with spaces, they are very clever without the ball and they have a complete team ».
In the ranks of the Catalan team, the competition’s top scorer, Michael Carrera, plays with 18.5 points per game. “It does a bit of everything and can put it in many different ways.” In the inner game are Badji and Shaquille O’Neal (not the NBA guy, another who is Bahamian and measures 2.06 meters), “two super powerful fives on the rebound. They give them a lot of bounce and strength near the rim. They are doing very well.
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