Trifón Poch, coach of Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto, spoke before facing Lleida this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. in Pumarín, one of the best LEB Oro teams.
Training week: “It has been an entertaining week, for several. On the one hand, we have had several players affected by the flu that has made them miss some training sessions, three specifically. In addition, Arteaga has a muscle problem in one leg and we are waiting to do a MRI to have a more concrete diagnosis.On the other hand, the players who started training last week, Craig and Shaquille, have been training, even though Shaquille has had this flu, and Romeo has been slowly coming back after missing everything until We are waiting for the last training sessions to see how his hand assimilates the load to see if he can be there or not for this weekend”.
Too many problems: “We have been dealing with many problems from the beginning. We are trying to recover players, we have several with temporary contracts to cover these problems. Let’s see if in the next few weeks we finally return to a normal situation. After the break that is going to be after this game we have the next two or three weeks to have the full team. That’s the goal right now.”
Some more reinforcement: “In principle, the idea is that with the players who have arrived, everything is covered until the entry of those who are injured. Romeo is the first of the long-term players that we expect and Thorir believes that after the window he can join the team. Basically, that’s the plan.”
Better to have these problems at the beginning: “Obviously we have the whole season ahead of us, this has just started. As I usually say, there are only 29 games left. We have many months to progress, grow and recover our situation. We need to see if we have the whole group as soon as possible, have our 12 for the first time to be able to work as a team, with what we had thought and from there to grow”.
Lleida: “It is clear that after the start we now have a very demanding phase of the calendar. They are teams in the playoff zone or that aspire to it and it gives us an added difficulty. Lleida is coming at a good time, it is a very competitive team. They have a very special structure, with very mobile players, which allows them to generate game situations that are difficult for rivals to defend. In addition, they currently have players who are numerically outstanding in many facets, such as the best scorer and rebounder in the category. a complicated team, they are going to demand us, but I hope to be prepared. Until now we have given a very different response in the home games, we want to be competitive and solid as always in Pumarín, and be at the level of the team that comes to visit us” .
