Valuation. “Well, I think it’s a match in which, first of all, we are very satisfied with the victory, because, as we get to this match in which neither Edu nor Antón can play, with the first minutes of Fares, who is still very far from their level, to get the victory against a team that we know is tough and tough, well, it is to be satisfied. It is the second in a row at home. A derby, for what that means for our fans, well, in general terms satisfied or very satisfied. Not so satisfied with Pablo Marín’s blow, the thing with Iñaki Ordóñez has been a muscle issue in the calf, which a priori is not serious, but having to finish the game like this is not what makes us most satisfied, especially having a game against a great team like Cáceres on Saturday. But hey, I think it will be time to analyze it and the balance can only be positive.
I don’t remember the last time I saw our team win and the losing team whistle goodbye. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Did you find the game especially tough, tough…? “I would like to answer this question tomorrow, when I have taken a shower and slept, I will be calmer than I am right now. I think we have dominated playing basketball and that there are other sports that we do not know how to play nor do we train for. I think that the level of contact that they have put in, and I think that the refereeing is very correct, they have been called 29 fouls, apart from some type of specific situations in which someone agrees or not, I think there is one thing that is to increase the level of intensity, there is Another thing is to pass a line that I think stops being basketball. The fans are sovereign, for better and for worse, maybe it’s a derby and that influences, maybe a team other than León does it and people can care a little more when you win by 15 at the end. It’s clear that the last quarter has been very long for us due to the lack of players, but well, at the same time I don’t think the game has been in danger. The feeling has not been jeopardized. the game, the ‘damn that something else doesn’t happen with one more or that they kick another one out’. I think that the game has not been in danger. The feeling from within is very bad. That eternal second half, that game that does not end, that shit after shit, for me that is not basketball, but there are things that go to the limit of what sport is. Absolutely random shock. I don’t think there was any kind of bad intention, but I think we were trying to play basketball.”
At various times you have spoken with the referee, what did he say to you? “Nothing, they were trying to do their job and I think it’s true. The only thing we asked of them, apart from some specific request, is that they try not to allow the intensity level to rise above what I saw as logical, which in the end is the fourth game in ten days, we have another one on Saturday and I think that increase in the level of intensity did not make any sense. I think they have controlled it quite well, I think there is no problem. And then in Pablo Marín’s action, regardless of whether they shoot or not, the player He doesn’t listen to Luis ask him to stop, Luis Castillo asks him to stop. I say it very clearly, there is no type of bad intention on the part of Luis Castillo, I think they are in a dangerous area. In the end, what the regulation dictates is not just under the basket. So I ask him why. “We get angry or when I get angry it is because of the behavior of certain members of the visiting bench. First of all, according to the regulations, they have no reason to address us. And then I think that we are a team that behaves at all times, we are a staff that behaves at all times. So to me, members of the visiting staff, and I reiterate, I never talk about their first coach, Luis Castillo, but we believe that it is something that we cannot tolerate.”
To prepare for the game against Cáceres, is it more a matter of training or recovering people? “Tomorrow morning, for those who are healthy and can get out of bed, we are going to do a recovery session. In the afternoon we are going to give them free time. On Friday we will give them a video, a massage and train a little, because we cannot stop our legs completely either. And with that we are going to go against a great team against Cáceres, but it is what it is. We are also going to see the positive, that both Antón and Edu can play and they will be fresh. We are going to try to get Fares, being very far, at least he has played his first minutes and has not had a brutal load. We are going to see the positive, but much more recovering than training. We know it is going to be a very tough game.
Did you expect this level of difficulty in the match? “The same thing happened to us on Cup day. We had a very good first half and in the second half they overpowered us with that level of intensity. I think we had controlled the game much better than in the Cup, but that level of intensity has made us suffer. It has made us suffer at the level of contacts, stoppages, playing a rough game. As we have said, we respect León a lot, because it is a team that last year made the playoffs with this type of game, that has won in Seville, in San Pablo, it is the only one team that has won in San Pablo playing this type of game, and that never give up. There are things that I don’t like when it comes to basketball, in terms of not giving up the fight, the spirit. I take my hat off because it doesn’t matter if they are down 29, I think we have gone 28 or 29 up. I don’t remember exactly and they don’t give up. The first thing we told them was that the game was not over. of Cup’. We have been talking about it all week.”
How are Fares, Marín and Iñaki? “You’re slowing down little by little. The fracture is healed. He’s okay after the last MRI, after some podiatry tests. He’s fine, but of course, a guy as big as him, until he comes back, even though he’s done work, he’s done non-impact work, he’s done work with the bike, with the pool, with everything that Mario de Ana has been able to do with him. But he hasn’t played basketball until this Monday, when he trained for 10 minutes, yesterday 15, and today he can help us. It’s an intelligent guy, but he has a long way to go to be well. Let’s hope that in January we will see something similar to the Fares that we need. A priori, it’s a muscle issue, but it’s cramps. We’ll see, but a priori there shouldn’t be anything serious, in the end it’s a matter of minutes and everything. Pablo Marín is concussed, but let’s hope that he’ll be better in the next few hours, because it’s still a blow and we’ll have to see how he is. Yes, yes, he was a little shaken. In the fall, a blow to the neck and then the fall. He was shocked, that’s why he didn’t come back to play. It’s not that he didn’t go out to play, but that he can’t be on the bench because of the pain he has in his neck and head.
