The cold and hard news is that the Argentine basketball team was left out of the Pre-Olympic and thus said goodbye to the only chance it had left to try to reach the Paris 2024 Games. The defeat against the Bahamas 82-75 decreed an incontrovertible reality: for the first time since the 1982-1984 cycle, the albiceleste team did not get a ticket to the World Cup or the Olympic Games. After two decades in the elite, the Argentine basketball went back to the step it was in before the Golden Generation or even a few more steps.
At the time of the balance, a series of factors combined for sports frustration, from managerial aspects to the absence of important players, such as Nicolás Laprovittola, Leandro Bolmaro, Marcos Delía or Juan Pablo Vaulet. With their contribution and experience, perhaps another would be the story.
However, the loss of these key pieces and the idea of modernizing the style of play by coach Pablo Prigioni accelerated the development of the replacement, which with the final result and the lack of big goals until the 2027 World Cup preview will be strengthened in the next times. And perhaps in that aspect you can find the most positive of a process that will inevitably carry the crosses of two very painful eliminations.
“It was easy to come to the National Team when there were six or seven players in the NBA, when you were a power. Now that is not the situation,” Prigioni summed up, in a mixture of billing for those absent and realism in the face of basketball. national. “Our reality is this, without players in the NBA, with good players in Europe. We have to focus on that, on that transformation, on the growth of young people, focus on them improving, on those who come even further down,” he completed his Coach analysis.
The names of the youngsters Juan Fernández, 20 years old and 2.10 meters tall, and Francisco Cáffaro, 23 years old and 2.16 meters tall, lead the list of players with a present, but above all with a future. Faced with an established NBA center like DeAndre Ayton, the two showed that they were up to the task and exhibited credentials to become important pieces in the reconstruction that will have to take place in the next two years. Behind them are Gonzalo Bressán, 21 years old and 2.07 meters tall, and Tomás Chapero, 22 years old and 2.08 meters tall, with less participation but with good references for what is to come. They will have to be added to the members of the U19 that finished fifth in the World Cup, with names of Lee Aaliya Dylan Bordón, Santiago Trouet or Lucas Giovanetti as the most outstanding of the litter.
Due to the present, commitment and leadership, it is inevitable to think that Facundo Campazzo and Gabriel Deck will command these young people to transmit the legacy of the GD. But it will remain to be defined whether the commander of the process will continue to be Prigioni. “I would like to continue, but there is a long time to go. I have a season in the NBA, my current team lets me do both jobs, but I don’t know if in a year or two I’ll continue with the same team, I don’t know if the The next team will leave me or they won’t leave me”, explained the coach, who has the two worst results in four decades behind him, but was the one who was encouraged to start the inevitable replacement.
2023-08-22 03:01:00
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