The forecasts were not optimistic when in the month of October, the starting signal for the 2023-24 NBA season, only three national players started the course: Santi Aldama (Memphis Grizzlies), Usman Garuba (Golden State Warriors) and Ricky Rubio (Cleveland Cavaliers). It was the lowest figure in 18 years. He didn’t change things much on the court and beyond the point guard. El Masnou, whose case is totally different and cannot be assessed from a sporting perspective, the ÑBA closes a disappointing course soon.
With the elimination, at the first opportunity, of the Warriors against the Sacramento Kings in the first phase of the Play-In repechage, none of them are left in play. The only thing missing was Usman Garuba, who signed an ordinary contract to play in the post-season, and after two minutes on the courtwith an assist and a block, he said goodbye to Golden 1 of the campaign.
Santi Aldama, green shoots
In strictly sporting terms, Santi Aldama was the best Spanish in the NBA. He landed leaving positive feelings after a World Cup in which Spain was eliminated early, but the Canarian assumed responsibility with flying colors. At the team level, his Memphis Grizzlies were a disaster, marked by the absences of Ja Morant (sanction for his ‘fooling around’ with weapons and an arm injury), Desmond Bane and Jaren Jackson Jr. But Aldama contributed and showed better feeling. He finishes his third year with 61 games, 26.5 minutes on the court, 10.7 points (43.5% TC and 34.9% T3), 5.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists.
Santi Aldama makes 6 triples in the first half in one of his best games in the NBA
Improve and take on more, with a ceiling yet to be discovered. And it will go through an important summer, with the Valencia Pre-Olympic and the Paris Games. “I want to recharge my batteries. We have a very important objective with the Pre-Olympic. We have to be in the Games no matter what.”. It’s a dream,” he said. The FEB is counting on him, Scariolo will continue working on his figure and the federation work has forged a great relationship with Memphis so that Aldama is there.
You have to be in the Games no matter what
Santi Aldama
Usman Garuba, it is fu in fa
Usman Garuba was the second Spaniard in the NBA in 2023-24 and the one who ‘went the furthest’. Although his signing for the Warriors cannot be classified as a success. He decided to continue in the United States, signed a ‘two-way’… and the tastelessness is notable. In the Development League he averaged 13.6 points and 11 rebounds in 22 games, although it is not a measuring stick. The players pass, there is no real competition… and Garuba performed, although the Warriors did not give him the alternative.
Because it has only formed in six games, with three minutes on average and 0.5 points per game at 16.7% TC. The Warriors considered taking him on a tour after his physical improvement, although it was not until the short post-season stint. His future is in doubt, and it should be expected that he will be important, as in the last two summers, for the Spanish National Team.
Garuba’s best performance at the start of the G League playoffs
Ricky returns to Barça
In that month of October too Ricky Rubio was an NBA player, although he did not play a game after fighting mental health problems that left him without the World Cup. Shortly after, he would return to Barça and the Spanish National Team, regaining his rhythm at the helm of the culé team and ‘La Familia’ in that Window for the EuroBasket against Latvia and Belgium. He will go to the Games if everything follows a normal course.
The future…
Spain and its ÑBA must wait for the future. At some point he experienced an exceptional moment and it was even said that up to four Spaniards would enter the Draft after an incredible summer. The advance of the year throws a bucket of cold water on them… although it is totally logical since they are extremely young.
Be Almansa He is the best placed and will come out in the first round after a year in a strange Ignite. Candidate Mara He has disappeared after his little participation with the University of California-Los Angeles. Daddy Miller changes university. And Juan Nuñez He has not yet announced what he will do this summer.
2024-04-17 10:00:57
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