Lolo Encinas, this Thursday in the press room of the Angulas Aguinaga Arena. /
The LEB Gold begins
Lolo Encinas expresses that this new team “is very supportive and has more character than last year”
First suitcase of the season to travel to Ourense. Guuk Gipuzkoa Basket travels to Galicia this Thursday after training to play the first day of the LEB Oro this Friday at 9:00 p.m. (LaLiga Sports TV), and Lolo Encinas appeared in the Angulas Aguinaga Arena press room to assess the state in which your team arrives at the starting gun.
The main news is the addition of Adam Sollazzo to the squad, who trained for the first time with his teammates on Wednesday after the stitches were removed from the blow he received to the face in training two weeks ago.
The one who will continue to be out is Rauno Nurger, and the San Sebastian coach has explained what his situation is. «He came with an overload from the Eurobasket, where he received a blow in the first game. We thought that he was going to recover, but every time we put a greater load of basketball on him, he was worse. We have changed the approach and it seems that we are succeeding doing the physio in another way. This week he has finally done something five against zero (exercises without opposition), but I can’t tell you when he will be there ». Therefore, waiting for the Estonian to recover and adapt to his new team, Maxime Carene will be in the dynamic of the first team and will be Mario Delas’ rotation center. Iñigo de la Hera also travels to complete the eleven-player roster.
Encinas has transmitted that «since Monday it has been seen that the group wants to compete», and has pointed out that «the team is very supportive and I see that it has more character than last year, it has more spirit. I have to recognize it. Those of us who have stayed know what we experienced last year and we have talked about it a lot. We all know each other better and we will see if it helps us to compete better.
Regarding the game on the first day, he expressed that “the group has trained very well throughout the preseason, it has been different from the previous one because Eugenio and I have applied what we have learned.” Ourense is a newly promoted team, but considers that circumstance an anecdote. «For me, Ourense is a LEB Oro team», and he has warned that «it keeps players and they have made very interesting signings for the league».
