Nacho Galán, coach of Círculo Gijón, highlighted as a key aspect in last day’s defeat against Basket Navarra “the little success in the free-throw shooting”, 13 out of 24, no less than 11 failures in the only play in the that there is no opposition from the rival. It is not the first time this season that errors in this facet of the game deprive the Gijon team of a victory.
The defeat against the Navarrese team was produced by four points of difference, 72-76, so that if they had scored only half of the missed shots, the victory would have stayed at home. Something similar happened on the second day, in which Círculo Gijón lost on their court against Ponferrada by 3 points, 77-80, in a game in which the Gijón missed 9 free throws, 4 out of 13. In other games the Errors did not influence the result, since either they achieved victory, as against Cantabria, or on the contrary the defeat was much more extensive (Ourense and Morón).
Círculo Gijón has the second worst percentage in free throw shots in the West Group, with 63.3 percent. Only ahead of Marbella, which has a 59.9. Counting the two groups of the LEB Plata, the Gijonese would only have two other teams behind: Zentro Madrid, which shows a 56.5 percent success rate, and Canoe, also from Madrid, with 56.6.
In the individual aspect, the players who have attended the free throw line the most times are Mendikote, Greenaway, Libroia and Lucas. The first of them is being one of the most prominent players so far, but he has his main must in this section, since he only scored 26 of those 43 shots (60.4 correct). For Javi Lucas, his 11 hits from 25 pitches represent a meager 44 percent. “Free throws are penalizing us a lot this year. It was a pain to see the success of the Navarrese and how we were doing it “, said Nacho Galán, who does not want to blame anyone:” The players arrive at the free kick with a lot of tension and that ends up being noticed “. The technician advocated “continue working” to improve in this regard.
And this is supposed to be the case throughout this week, in which the team prepares its visit to the Algeciras field (Sunday, 12 noon), a team that has the same balance of three wins and five losses as the Gijón. The technicians hope to have point guard Obi Megwa, who could not make his debut last Saturday due to lack of an international pass.
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