Argentinian He already enjoyed reaching the goal of saving the category and began to think about planning the next season. Marcelo Velazco He took the floor and recounted his feelings from the last tournament, apart from clarifying what may come.
Regarding Chiche Japez, the vice president was clear: “We have already had a talk with Chiche for its continuity. He asked us for a few days so that we could meet again. We have to evaluate everything because Cavallin, Filipetti and Montemagio are still under contract, nothing more”.
In the last season Juan Varas was fired and Velazco said: “Juan’s work was not bad in my opinion. Sometimes not winning some games creates uncertainty and that has a lot of repercussions on the squad. We believe that a change of air could do the team good and luckily it happened. Chiche knows the club, his DNA and that was a plus to save us”.
Making a balance, the juninense said that “We are happy because the objective was to maintain the category and it was achieved. At some point we thought we could qualify for the playoffs, but then it got complicated. It’s been a long time since we qualified for the playoffs because each season the competition becomes more difficult for us. Especially the logistics, because you cannot foresee anything due to the country’s own instability”.
He expressed the desire to continue with the same base: “Cangelosi and Slider are two benchmarks. Let’s hope that Juanchi wants to continue one more season”, he concluded.
League Award
Yesterday the ball began to bounce again, but on Friday night the ceremony that rewarded the best of the 2021/22 National Basketball League regular season was held. For the first time, it was broadcast live on Twitch, from the official Argentine Basketball channel, hosted by Elías Mauro, Lucas Flossi and Pedro Pérez Disalvo, renowned streamer on the Argentine scene, fanatic and basketball player in La Liga Federal. . The voting of the winners was in the hands of journalists from the main sports media and the field of basketball.
The MVP of the season, chosen with 72.7% of the votes, went to the American Eric Anderson, Quimsa’s power forward, who also won the “Best Foreign Player” award, in this case with 77, two%. He was the offensive leader of the Fusion and one of the secrets by which the Santiagueños dominated the results level throughout the regular phase. The 29-year-old player, who returned to La Liga after a previous experience in Obras, averages 15.3 points and 9.0 rebounds, numbers that speak for themselves of his interference.
Nicolás Romano, who occupies the same role at Instituto de Córdoba, was chosen as the “Best national player”, gathering 54.5% of the votes. MVP of the past Super 20, since the beginning of 2021/22 he is a key piece in the structure of Glory, standing out as part of a very renowned team. The 34-year-old from Junin, who was champion with San Lorenzo last season, shines in his return to Instituto with numbers of 14.0 points and an average of 7.2. His current level earned him calls to the Argentine National Team.
Franco Baralle, Quimsa base, gathered 68.2% of the votes to be chosen as the “most outstanding U23”. Another of the great values in Santiago del Estero, owner of a notorious maturity in his personality and game, in constant evolution and still with a long way to go given his youth. With Selection news and an interesting projection, the young Cordovan emerged in Athens is the successor of other great values that knew how to win this award in previous years (Fernando Zurbriggen in 2021, José Vildoza in 2019, Gabriel Deck in 2018). Part of the factory of young talent born in La Liga, he is currently averaging 13.3 points and 2.5 assists per game.
Bruno Sansimoni, from Boca, took the award for “Best Progress” thanks to 22% of the votes. The 26-year-old player achieved a notorious maturation in his game, being one of the leaders that the revelation team of the season had: Peñarol. Chule, with steps through League clubs such as Quilmes de Mar del Plata and with a past Boca as well, proved to be a luxury driver for Milrayitas, cerebral and complete, from the intangible but also in what their numbers reflected (10.6 points and 4.7 assists).
Joaquín Valinotti, from Peñarol, was left with the “Sixth Man”, thanks to 27.3%. If we talk about bases, the young man from Santa Fe from Las Rosas was another of the great drivers of the Mar del Plata team. He was very regular and carried the team on his shoulder on several occasions, despite being only 23 years old and with the responsibility of providing solutions to a leading team throughout the season. He averaged 10.3 points plus 3.3 assists per game.
Andrés Jaime, from Unión de Santa Fé, thanks to 77.3&, was chosen as the “Revelation”. As a rookie, for years he was already an important project and longing for his chance to play in La Liga, and he was finally able to do so this season, reaffirming all his conditions. He played and made his team play, and regardless of the fact that Tatengue played the series for Permanence, the 22-year-old guard showed level, talent and personality, especially in the hottest moments of the season. He continues to make progress, having closed 2021/22 with an average of 9.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 5.0 assists.
When choosing “Best DT” there was a tie. Sebastián González, from Quimsa, and Leandro Ramella, from Peñarol, shared the award, both gathering 27.3% of the votes. Equal in votes but with different realities in their respective projects, it is the recognition of two DTs who knew how to manage two important teams, one being one of the top candidates from the beginning and the other emerging as one of the surprise teams of this campaign. González from Córdoba continues to accumulate distinctions in this category, remembering that he was also chosen in 2018 and 2020, while for the man from Mar del Plata it is the first award in this category in the highest division.
Fabricio Vito, who announced his retirement in the international arena in 2021, was chosen as the “Best Referee” of the season, with 72.7%. Since 2017 he has received this recognition, now being the fifth time in a row that he has been awarded. Born in Punta Alta but adopted by La Plata, the city of the diagonals, he has a recognized career that he continues to enrich.
The “Ideal Quintet” of the regular season of the National League was made up of Franco Baralle (Quimsa, 36.4%), Melvin Johnson (OTC, 50%), Sebastián Vega (Gymnastics, 45.5%), Nicolás Romano ( Institute, 68.2%) and Eric Anderson (Quimsa, 95.4%). Three of them had their respective and already mentioned individual distinctions, while Johnson showed enormous versatility and game dynamics (he averaged 19.9 points) being one of the great leaders that Oberá had and Vega was once again one of the most complete players (he threw figures of 13.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists) that another of the top entertainers in La Liga had, Gimnasia de Comodoro.
The public, through the vote made from Twitter and Instagram, was in charge of choosing the “Best dunk of the season”. The chosen one was that of the American Brandon Moss of Hispano Americano before La Unión de Formosa.
