Evans says yes to Betis Basketball

The soap opera of the summer in San Pablo comes to an end. Happy ending for many, since Shannon Evans will play one more season at Betis Baloncesto. The player has already said yes and only the exchange of the signed documentation is missing. An option that last May and June seemed impossible and that is now realafter many negotiations and almost infinite patience of the entity’s managers.

To this must be added the significant financial effort to retain the MVP of the last month of competition and a key player in Betica’s permanence in the Endesa League. and without activating levers. It would be impossible with the current number of subscribers. Saving elsewhere, the club managed to raise its first offer, with which it included the player in the score and that at the time it was already “the limit” that the section could afford. A subsequent effort was made and Evans was told that from there the offer could not go through. And he waited. Because either by the player, active on social networks with enigmatic messages, or his agents, the truth is that something better was expected both sportingly and economically from a club that played European competition.

But Evans’s name didn’t ring a bell. Few rumors around him beyond the possibilities of continuing at Betiswhich were increasing week by week as they could not find accommodation anywhere else.

Although it is true that his debut was not good with Joan Plaza, with numbers well below expectations, with Luis Casimiro his role changed and began to work. The manchego coach hit the key from the first moment, gave him the role of captain-general, made him understand that assisting is as important as scoring and Evans became, with more than 30 minutes on average per game, the philosopher’s stone of the Betis Basketball on the way to a hard-fought permanence.

Now he will become the leader of the team and around him will revolve the game and the possibilities of a team that has lost physicality and presence insidestill waiting for an interior player, but who has managed to retain a decisive player who can team up well with Nzosa and Sylla to put baskets on a plate.

with Evans the Betis Baloncesto, which is still pending the renewal of the Coosur sponsorship contractyou do not have your template closed yet, since an inside piece is missing, either in the pivot position or in the power forward position, it depends on what the market offersgiven the versatility of Sylla, who opens the range for the latest Betis incorporation with which to close the squad for the 2022-23 season, which will start on August 22 with medical examinations.