Tomorrow, it’s time to visit Cazoo Baskonia. But before that, Básquet Girona, new to the ACB the club and also some of its players, has already faced Lenovo Tenerife, Real Madrid, Barça, Gran Canaria or Unicaja, among others. All of them, installed at the top of the classification. The balance, a 2-6, can be improved, leaving the team third in the queue, when the month of December is about to open. Aíto García Reneses is not worried. He has lived so much and seen them in all colors, in addition to knowing what goes on in Fontajau on a day-to-day basis. He gathers enough ingredients to take it easy, being faithful, for one more week, to the philosophy he has shared since his arrival. Winning or losing is of course important, but it is secondary because the priority is to “get better every day”.
He explained, yesterday in the annex of the pavilion, during the preview of the next match, that “I am not worried about the situation” in the classification, with only one victory more than the leader, Betis, and tied with the two accumulated by the penultimate , the Manresa. “It is possible that, if instead of having played against the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, we had faced the eighteenth, seventeenth, fifteenth, fourteenth and twelfth, then maybe we would have won some more. I say it is possible, because in this sport nothing is certain. This means that it should be given relative importance in the ranking. He will have some at the end of the season. We have to think about what we have to think about. Not whether we won or not, but whether we will win or not. By playing better and better”.
Only if it improves, if it continues to rise, will it be possible to go ahead with matches like tomorrow’s in Vitoria. There, Básquet Girona expects an “expert opponent, with many players who have been competing in the elite for a long time and who are versatile, so it becomes more difficult to defend them”. A Cazoo Baskonia that comes from losing to Nou Congost, eight days ago, but at the same time the second best attack of the ACB. “Is there a chance of victory? Yes, but the percentage is small. The important thing is to improve, and we’re looking forward to it, because if we do it this way we’ll have more and more possibilities». You can always go further, but Aíto does see a progression from when he takes the reins of the dressing room until now. “We have improved a lot. The motivation has been changing, of course. On the first day, the debut day, we played very well. Then we went a little lower, and then went up again. Technically we are fine, getting better and better”. He therefore asks for more stability and regularity, also to strengthen the idea of rebounding in attack, one of the team’s shortcomings. Above all, do not give up, focus on working and reinforcing concepts, rather than “thinking about whether we will win or not, or whether we have won or lost”.
And a proper name. In one of the answers, the coach talked about Marc Gasol and the need that Girona has to enjoy the best version of the pivot in order to perform at a certain level. “There is dependence on him, yes, but at the same time you need to dose him the minutes he can last on the court. The rest of the players are improving enough to play decently in the moments when Marc is not there».
