The Murcian team, with a deep roster to combine the League and the Champions League, will start the season tonight at the Palace against the dangerous Breogán
The wait is over. Just ten days after the end of the Eurobasket, the Endesa League kicked off yesterday with the only early game of the first day, Girona – Real Madrid, which brought the legendary Marc Gasol back into the league, and continues with the rest of the game. games, including tonight’s game at 9.30 PM by UCAM against Breogán, one of his closest foes last year in the Cup battle and the ‘play-off’, goals that both reached and touched each other respectively.
This 2022-23 season is not just one of many others in the consolidation of the city of Murcia on the map of the Endesa League, a category that has not been reduced since its return in 2012 and no small problem, as the relegations showed of the latest campaign of very advanced projects, such as those of Burgos and Andorra. It is also the return of European nights to the Palace, the Champions League stadium four seasons later.
All the teams in the Endesa League, which is still the toughest domestic league on the continent, already know how to handle the double league. If not, ask Burgos and Andorrans. To meet the challenge without lowering the bar on the goals, which Sito Alonso labeled as “being a league champion” during a joint breakfast in the media yesterday (thus establishing parallelism with the typical parental message of “studying to to get a 10, because if you do it to get a 5, you don’t pass”), Alejandro Gómez has tried to improve his team’s wardrobe, revamped with up to eight new faces.
But not only because of the names, but also because of the structure, another UCAM is expected. The coach himself recognized it, already in a more formal tone, in the last press conference before the first official game. “We’re going to see different things, but the philosophy doesn’t change.” And it’s that UCAM doesn’t have two offensive talents who can perform at the level of Isaiah Taylor or James Webb III, but they do have more weight in all positions. Or maybe point guard Travis Trice, one of the preseason names, wants to show that he’s still that type of player. But for now, it’s not so brutal that it will be.
It’s the big step forward in his career, not so much for a James Anderson who has just won the Euroleague in the last two years, but he faces the challenge of making his debut in the Endesa League, and in a position where the performer wasn’t as much of a protagonist as in the UCAM in recent years. In the ‘4’, where the charismatic Webb III has disappeared, Radovic and his back-to-the-edge game gain importance, and the significant changes continue in the ‘5’, where the towering Pustovyi, Diop and Sakho hit another style to the duo Lima-Cate. Only in ‘2’, with Davis and McFadden, life goes on.
Sadiel Rojas’ incident with AJ Slaughter in the second round match against Gran Canaria was a minor before and after in the UCAM season. The Murcian team was once again put in the eye of the hurricane many days after being there, with near successive incidents in Lugo, Andorra and Badalona, and the team was deeply moved to forget in one last stretch. Salt in the wound, the penalty against Sadiel Rojas for the first two Endesa League games this coming season.
First in a more casual tone during Alejandro Gómez and Sito Alonso’s breakfast for the media, and then in a more businesslike tone during the press conference, it was one of the most controversial issues. “I find it difficult to understand that a player cannot play because of an unsportsmanlike foul, confirmed and reconfirmed by the umpires. A signal to the fact that there is in almost every record, and which the umpires have not increased the severity of. “It is important that we forget these things, we take them and devote ourselves to playing, the coach himself has resigned”.
UCAM makes its debut today with Breogán and already opens a new competition, the Champions League, against the Turkish Tofas, again on Tuesday at the Palace. But it is that in between he will be gone and back from playing another game in Zaragoza this Saturday. After two weeks without preseason games with more absences than he remembers, UCAM opens the course with three games in five days.
On Tuesday, Sito’s men will return to the Champions League, a competition in which they have not participated since the coach arrived in Murcia in the 2018-19 season and which, so as not to become an uphill climb, he analyzes as fundamental “understanding with the same intensity as the ACB.” With his fifth season in Murcia, Sito Alonso not only makes UCAM the team he has played for the most seasons in the Endesa League, he is also the fifth coach to have spent the most years in a row with the same team , behind only the unique case of Moncho Fernández at Obradoiro (thirteen seasons) and Txus Vidorreta (Tenerife), Pedro Martínez (Manresa) and Carles Duran (Joventut), who are also taking on their fifth campaign in their teams.
Source: La Verdad
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