UCAM travels to Girona with the doubts of Thad McFadden and Ilimane Diop, who did not play against Strasbourg on Wednesday
Today’s visit to Girona is another match on the calendar, but the attractions make it another. It is not only a game against Marc Gasol, an icon of Spanish basketball who serves as president and player of current rival UCAM, it is also Sito Alonso’s first confrontation on the bench against his great teacher, Aíto García Reneses, who he relieved Joventut before his debut as head coach with the ACB in 2008, and who had not been on our bench for six years, after four seasons in Germany with two sabbaticals as prologue and epilogue to the foreign adventure.
“It is a great joy that he has returned,” says his student Sito, who feels that “it gives a higher image to the Endesa League”, a league in which he is the oldest and only coach with more than a thousand games (1082 ) . Focused on the game, the college coach warns of the “dual difficulty” of a team that is “very hard to disconnect from a game, has a very special defense and creates situations that are not common.”
Trying to take the win out of Fontajau, where a Girona that has had a difficult starting schedule and that won its first game last week has not yet been able to please its fans, UCAM has doubts from McFadden and Diop , who failed on Wednesday. played in the Champions League due to a left ankle ligament sprain and low back pain, respectively. Sito has “serious doubts” about his participation, as neither has trained this week.
The same uncertainty exists in Girona regarding Patricio Garino, with muscle discomfort, and Pierre Oriola, who could make his debut with the Catalan team if Aíto thinks so.
Today in Girona it will be Marc Gasol’s first confrontation with UCAM since February 24, 2008, when also in Fontajau, but with the late Akasvayu, the MVP of the season made his umpteenth appearance. Just 14 points, but only one shooting error, and accompanied by 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks and 8 fouls for a total PIR of 37, the same figure he achieved during his visit to Murcia months earlier. But this time with a victory from Girona.
That day, Akasavayu quietly dominated Polaris World (80-66), which offered no resistance. Marc’s command, who exceeded 30 in PIR that season, was such that it completely overshadowed Murcia’s starting center Juanjo Triguero, who scored just 2 points in 19 minutes and took off without grabbing any rebounds, and who very good score. different version in the first leg with 11 points and 13 rebounds, fundamental in the victory of Manuel Hussein’s men. That same summer, Triguero would be invited to prepare the Spanish team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, with Aíto, today on the local bench in Fontajau, in his only experience as a national coach.
Source: La Verdad
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