the new age of Miguel Mendez in the women’s basketball team started in the Eurobasket with a shock: a defeat in the debut against Latvia. But after spain has passed through tournament with the direct set, chaining solvent victories against Greece y Montenegro and an exhibition at the collective level in the quarterfinals against Germany (67-42) with the prominent role of Laura Gil (13 points, 11 rebounds, 21 PIR) who has emerged in the tournament as the spirit of the group.
After a brief hiatus away from the fight for the medals (seventh in the Eurobasket 2021out of the last World, eliminated in the quarterfinals in the tokyo games), the team returns this Saturday to the semifinal of a major tournament facing Hungary (5:45 p.m., Teledeporte), a team that just a few days ago defeated her in one of the two friendlies that they played in preparation and that has the ceiling of the competition, the center Bernadette Hatar 2.08 and 28 years old.
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– Basketball Spain (@BaloncestoESP) June 23, 2023
The renaissance of the national team has coincided with the best version of the 31-year-old center from Murcia and 1.91 meters tall. Laura Gil He is living a splendid moment and has recovered all the passion on a basketball court after overcoming a serious Achilles tendon injury. His work with Raquel Carrera has given the national team a lot of internal solvency, well supported by Paula Ginzo and Lola Pendandethe two recent incorporations of the Barca CBSto minimize absences such as those of Astou Ndour, Irati Etxarri and Maria Araújo.
The team of mendez He has also stood out defensively with the work of Queralt Casas or Maria Conde and he has also shown extreme care in turnovers (he only accumulates eight per game) on the way to what would be his sixth continental final.
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“In Spain we are not the tallest or the strongest but we have a way of defending that makes the opponent feel uncomfortable, it is the defense that the interiors do but also what the exteriors help us. For the rival, every day it is difficult to do the ‘scouting’”, he assures Laura Gil, that this summer has committed to the Perfumeries Avenue, in which he has already played five seasons and from which he said goodbye in May 2020 in the middle of the pandemic to go to Valencia.
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– Basketball Spain (@BaloncestoESP) June 23, 2023
In March 2022, in his second season in Valenciawas when she suffered an Achilles tendon rupture, which has kept her away from the slopes for nearly a year to experience the final part of her recovery in the Basket Landes French, where he has enlarged his palmares (a French Cup) and where he has recovered his best version, to return with a much stronger body and with much more influence in the group.
“I’m enjoying it a lot. 2021 was hard for me, after Achilles. I have come back to help the team and I am feeling very comfortable”, he assures Gil, which highlights the importance of the team not lowering its head after the defeat against Latvia. “In the end there is a very good vibe on the track, so we are going to give everything to get the medal”.
2023-06-24 06:31:04
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