The ACB plans to provide the championship that opens this Wednesday with a Girona-Real Madrid match with more rhythm and spectacle
The controversial quick serve, the great novelty in Spanish basketball that was officially inaugurated last weekend in the Super Cup to speed up the game, marks the development of the Endesa League 2022-2023 this season. With defenders and opponents of the rule that a player may take the ball from the sidelines or deep without the referee touching or holding it, the regularity championship kicks off this Wednesday with a match-up between Girona and Real Madrid between one of the two newly promoted , chaired and led on track by Marc Gasol, and the league title defender and newly crowned Super Cup champion.
While the echoes of the incredible Eurobasket conquered by Spain have not yet faded, the Endesa League is raising the curtain on an innovation that has provoked a lot of reactions immediately after its release. “The serving rule seems redundant to me. They want to reinvent basketball,” Sergio Llull, the active player with the most League titles (seven), launched Sunday night. ago asked for it to be applied. I’ve played with this rule and I can’t be for it anymore,” said Aíto García Reneses, who returns to the ACB as coach of Girona and with nine league titles the most successful coach in Spain. basketball, surpassed only by Pedro Ferrándiz (twelve) and Lolo Sainz (ten).
“This rule will reward those who are smarter. Basketball is a game for smart and dynamic people and I think they will like it again,” said Obradoiro coach Moncho Fernández. “The goal is to reduce interruptions and increase speed, counter-attacks and transitions,” emphasizes the ACB about this new rule that the vast majority of Endesa League coaches agree with. Players and referees will also have to get used to this innovative rule, which will not be applied in European competitions. “In the beginning it costs a lot, as with all things you do the same way for a long time. It’s good, but it takes time to adapt,” said Murcia coach Sito Alonso.
Approved by the FIBA for use in the ACB, this innovation aims to give a greater rhythm to a sport that suffers from unnecessary interruptions of play and above all the confusion with the calendar. Basically, it’s all about making basketball more attractive and spectacular, and the games don’t last as long as they have so far. In order to speed up the game, the ACB has also decided to reduce the instances where the umpires can go to the ‘instant replay’.
The quick serve rule, which has been in place in the past, has already been implemented this pre-season in some friendlies, in the Catalan league and in the Super Cup played in Seville. Before Real Madrid took their fifth consecutive crown in the tournament that kicks off the season, Piti Hurtado, one of today’s most influential and followed coaches and commentators, has already warned of what the rule change will entail.
“The rule not to touch the ball umpire on backfield kicks benefits the six ACB teams that will not be playing European competition. They can train him vigorously. The other 12 (four Euroleagues, two Eurocups and six Champions Leagues) will have to change chips every three days,” warns Piti Hurtado, referring to the teams that will not play in the Old Continent this season (Betis, Fuenlabrada, Obradoiro, Zaragoza). ). , Granada and Girona), in addition to Breogán, were eliminated in the previous phase of the Champions League. The representatives in the Euroleague are Real Madrid, Barça, Valencia and Baskonia; in the Eurocup Joventut and Gran Canaria; and in the Champions League Tenerife, Unicaja, Bilbao, Murcia and Manresa.
The opening day of the Endesa League is divided into three days, because after Girona-Real Madrid in Fontajau on Thursday, four games will be played and the same number on Friday. The matches Gran Canaria-Barça and Joventut-Bilbao, played on Friday from 9.30 pm, will close the first day of a championship in which Real Madrid, in year I after the Laso era, aim to recover the title, an achievement which they last achieved four seasons ago – in 2019 they linked two consecutive Leagues -, while Barça last won the championship in 2021. The azulgranas ceded the crown to the whites last June and on Sunday they also fell in the Super Cup final against the team now led by Chus Mateo.
Bosnian Dzanan Musa (23 years and 2.05 meters), now in the ranks of the champion, defends the title of MVP of the regular season of the Endesa League which he won last edition with Breogán. Since Luka Doncic left in 2018, Real Madrid has not had a profile comparable to that of the Slovenian genius. Musa can play shooting guard, small forward and even point guard. With a tremendous ability to score, the Bosnian international, despite his size, is also characterized by a great ability to direct and generate play. According to Pablo Laso’s replacement on the whites bench, Chus Mateo, “it marks an era at Real Madrid.” Currently, in his official debut with the whites, in the Super Cup, he scored 40 points (21 against Betis and 19 against Barça), breaking Madrid’s scoring record in an edition of the tournament that kicks off the season.
In the Musa Super Cup he averaged 20 points, five assists and a PIR of 26.5. In the semi-final against Betis, thanks to his 21 points and seven assists, he fell just one point short of the PIR record in the Super Cup, with 33. Although Doncic is of a different level, the comparisons with the former star of Real are Madrid now in the Dallas Mavericks not stopped. Musa made his professional debut at age 15 with Cedevita Zagreb and in the Euroleague at age 16. He arrived at the same age as Doncic (19) in the NBA (Brooklyn Nets) and the same year, in 2018.
After leaving the North American league, he returned to Europe in January 2021 to join Anadolu Efes, although he only played 11 minutes in the Euroleague with the Turkish team. He then rescinded his contract with Efes and signed for Breogán, with whom he became the most highly regarded player in the League with an average of 23.1. Only in three games did the Bosnian drop below ten points in appreciation. He was also the league’s top scorer with an average of 20.1 points.
Source: La Verdad
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