“The attack is nice, but the defense hurts,” said a famous coach and he was right. Shooting series, even in movement and with interspersed exercises, are liked. Standing with your back against the wall for two minutes in a defensive position is an ordeal.
This introduction would be perfect as an introduction to what happened on Friday at the Palau in the umpteenth league defeat for the Catalans against a Unicaja team that won 91-92. with only 15 minutes played by Willy Hernangómez.
After the game there have been events, on social networks criticism against Roger Grimau with a common message. Why didn’t he play more? Luckily, in basketball and despite the so-called intangibles, data and statistics serve to justify decisions and to reveal facts.
Willy did not have the day in attack despite trying again and again to finish with nine points after a bad series of 3/11 in shots from two, although he grabbed four rebounds, received four fouls and was good in the free throw with 3/4. Anyway, It is not the attack that condemns the man from Madrid.
His big problem comes in defense and this time the feeling of fragility that Barça conveyed with him on the court has been reflected by an important fact that basketball incorporated years ago in the slipstream of the most modernized sport in the world, ice hockey.
Willy has not felt comfortable all season / DANI BARBEITO
This is the +/- or, in other words, the team’s result in the minutes in which a player is on the court. Well, Willy ended up with a bleeding -19. And the numbers don’t lie. With him in the quintet, the penetrations of Carter and Taylor followed one another, who were waiting for a false block to penetrate, taking advantage of the blaugrana’s lack of opposition.
With Willy, Barça accumulated a -19 and with Jan Vesely, a +18. These data are not coincidental. He is a master at completing alley-oops, but then he is not able to withstand that defensive pain, a victim in part of his lower body problems that sometimes cause him to receive blocks in advantageous positions in attack.
Another detail is the James Nnaji theme. If Grimau has done well by ‘punishing’ one of his theoretical stars with the bench on many occasions, It is not understood about the Nigerian center despite the fact that he is not evolving almost nothing at a conceptual level. If Vesely needs a rest and doesn’t want to play the Spanish international… why not try the African?
2024-05-11 15:55:05
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