More than the defeat of his team yesterday at the Palau, Txus Vidorreta, coach of Lenovo Tenerife, lamented the type of basketball that could be seen yesterday at the Barcelona fiefdom. A trend and “an insufferable tostón”, as he described it. «Do you think that this game and this basketball may have been liked by someone who has seen it on TV. On the field yes. There is aggressiveness, contact, emotion… On the pitch, anything goes. But we have to do something with the game without the ball. A tostón like today, for someone who is not from Barça or Lenovo Tenerife, is insufferable. And don’t let them tell me milongas”, the aurinegro coach expressed forcefully.
A style, admits Vidorreta, that his team has had no choice but to accept. “Each time we are also able to adapt to the environment, to this style that prevails and that forces you to play poorly in order to compete,” he stated in this regard, before intensifying his complaint. “Either we clean up the game and go back to doing what was already done in ACB 10 or 12 years ago, and we signal all the contacts that generate a disadvantage for the attack in the game without the ball or there is no way to find advantages when we all tend to collapse. , use your hands a lot and change in all the blocks, “said the Bilbao coach. For Txus, this game is “in line with handball”.
Vidorreta stressed that yesterday, between Barça and Lenovo, was not an isolated case. «Like this game there are a lot of games in the Euroleague. You have to change. Basketball has to change. Basketball has to be basketball again, not basket catch », he commented, to ratify his argument based on the offensive numbers of his team and the Barça team. «Without Laprovittola, Barça might score 49. And if Salin hadn’t had the success he showed, we 45… It’s about to fall that those numbers are beaten by any of the teams», he put on the table. “If we are playing the first and the third and the basketball we can offer is this… Either those in charge sit down or it is very difficult to find ways to find advantages,” he added, by way of request, to finish.
