Badalona Youth Coach. / Andrew Dalmau
At the time I write this, I do not know if a committee of various crisis cabinets has been convened on the cajista defeat against Joventut in Badalona. I don’t know if the bar counter sports directors (thank you, Ettore Messina for having called us at the time) have come to fix the shot on the dominant centers that they have found in the market to incorporate into the Malaga squad, or if the point guard who controls the attack with an iron hand, preventing Kendrick Perry gets out of hand, is already looking for an apartment near our beaches, or if that cloned shooter among Reggie Miller y Stephen Curry He has already chosen where he is going to have the mixed smurf and half breakfast.
Now seriously, although it’s a lot of fun to keep winning games, always talking about how well the team plays and counting one victory after another, I don’t think anyone in their right mind could think of perpetuating the famous streak of victories in the ACB League, which in the month of June more than one saw itself with the title of the Copa del Reythe FIBA BCL and the League ACBbecause we are so great that we deserve everything.
The important thing this week? That with tomorrow’s game against Tofas Bursathe second phase of the European competition begins and we must attack it directly to prevent the rivals from believing something that harms the cajista interests, because at first glance of Turks, more Cholet y StrasbourgI think that just as Unicaja could finish the group 6-0, they are capable of losing against any rival. I say the resounding 6-0 because despite the defeat in Badalonathis current Unicaja has been in second position for 11 of the 19 days of the best national league in Europe, behind the champion and current leader of the Euroleaguehe Real Madrid. It was the first team to defeat the whites, something it has also done with 3 of the 4 Spanish teams that play in the best European competition, it is the best defense and the second best attack in the ACB.
Regarding Saturday’s defeat, it was an option as valid as another. What’s more, I don’t think the coach is particularly upset about falling to a team that is now becoming a recognizable entity. Statistical data speaks of his own bad day and another’s good day, as can be seen by looking at the ratio of assists+recoveries-losses. , which in the match remained at 9 by Unicaja, when his average was 17, with 6 more turnovers than usual. Or the 3-point shot data, which was 5 of 17 (poor 29%), far from what he has averaged until Saturday: 9.7 of 25.3 (38.2%, the second best ACB).
If we add to this that the black-green individualities headed by Ante Tomic They were brilliant, we now have something clear briefly to face a week in which, in addition to the start of the FIBA BCL against a Turkish rival with interesting players like Austin Wiley, Caleb Homesley, Cassius Winston or the known Luke Mayethe next ACB rival is Valencia Basketballa rival of Euroleagueone of the important ones and who already made it clear in Malaga that being part of the first continental competition requires a different effort than that which Unicaja is subjected to, something that the new Levantine sports director was in charge of expressing, Luis Arbalejowho, evaluating his team’s season, relied on Unicaja y UCAM to say that both would have more defeats in the ACB if they played Euroleague.
Totally agree with him, not in vain, the FIBA BCL It has only involved 6 games Unicaja in its first phase, for the 22 that have been played in the best league outside of the NBAbut other data would also have to be included in the equation, such as the detail that, by the mere fact of not being in Euroleague, there are teams that have certain players banned. I don’t see the current Unicaja or other important teams outside the Euroleague orbit opting to Semi Ojeleye, Brandon Davies or register the Kevin Pangos. And another question, how many teams would do without Bojan Dubljevic for not being valid enough for the club’s objectives?
What has been said is completely right, but if watching football matches Euroleague I have moments in which I think that it is another sport, it is clear that what is put at the service of those who direct those teams are different pieces, therefore, and without ever forgetting what our most immediate past was about, let’s enjoy what we have Furthermore, the horizon is magnificent.
2024-01-23 05:59:24
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