Trifón Poch was saddened by the defeat against Burgos, but once again happy with his team and with the effort they put in, especially in defense in the first half. “Right now the fact of having lost weighs on our minds, but coldly, with perspective, we have to say that the team has done a good job,” said the coach of Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto.
The Cordovan coach was especially proud of the work that was done to dry up the score for San Pablo Burgos in the early stages of the duel: “In the first half we made a fantastic defense.” He also recognized that, due to the absence of so many players due to injury, it is difficult for the team to add in attack: “With this average number of points it is impossible to play to win.” Key in the development of the match were “the rotations, the accumulation of several losses in a row that allowed Burgos to score on the counterattack,” he added.
The effort of the first half was difficult to maintain in the second and that ended up paying off. “We have arrived tired, in the last quarter Burgos scored five triples and managed to make a gap that as we are it is difficult to overcome, and we still tried”, valued the coach of the Asturian team.
But Trifon wanted to insist on the good things, like the fact that in the first quarter they were “perfect in defense.” “With that effort under normal circumstances you go to 40 points,” he said. The slump in the second half is attributed to “tiredness”. Once again, four team players added more than 30 minutes and Oliver Arteaga brushed them. As for the new ones, Trifón hopes that for the following week they will be integrating more: “They lack training, in the game you send a system and they go to the opposite side.”
In spite of everything, he assured that “we have to be positive, honestly giving more with what we have is impossible, we all make mistakes, but we are giving everything”. For this reason, he crossed his fingers so that “more things typical of an Iker Jiménez program” do not happen and they can have a quiet week, in which they train five against five: “On Tuesday there were six of us training and only one day we did a five against five”.
“It is necessary to value the return of Martí”
The coach of Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto left this week to assess whether Marc Martí will be able to return in the next Blues match against Iraurgi. “We have the issue of Marc Martí pending, we have to assess him, see what we do, to see if his leg finishes taking sensations; we don’t want to take risks, we’ll see how he assimilates this week if there are more training sessions with more players,” Trifón added. . Martí missed almost all of last season due to a serious knee injury and is now awaiting the timing of his return.
