The nearly 25-year-old player is terminating his contract after a season in which his fame has dwindled and the university club will not bid to keep him
Young, local training quota and center with points in his hands. On paper it wouldn’t even be necessary to think about it, but Emanuel Cate has just completed his fourth season with UCAM and the expected steps forward have not been so.
This season he has played even fewer minutes than the last, in the second round there have been up to five matches in which he has played less than ten minutes and there have been important moments in the matches where Sito Alonso prefers to risk with a Lima full of mistakes and minutes accrued, or directly with Rinalds Malmanis, the least used player of the whole team and who is not even a pure center.
Making a lot of memory is not necessary, because in the match in which UCAM played its last bullet before the ‘play-off’, on the last day against Zaragoza, Sito chose the Let in the third quarter and with unfavorable two-digit differences Cate .
No one within the club is questioning whether Cate will continue to make a career in major leagues such as the Endesa League, but there is some stagnation in Murcia. After four seasons, his most pressing points to improve are still the same as in the first year, and sharing a position with Augusto Lima, the club’s most consistent player and UCAM emblem, affects him through a certain glass ceiling. about his progression. The cold numbers don’t help: with Lima on track, UCAM wins 3.9; with Cate she loses by 0.8. 4.1 points difference plays one or the other.
And at the same time, as UCAM is well aware, he is a player with a market value, especially given his quota condition. If they didn’t have a locally trained player license, UCAM would have already made the decision to part ways with Cate. He won’t rule him out, but unlike when he re-signed to his current contract, he won’t make him a priority. In fact, he has started exploring other options.
How far they decide to go will also depend on the evolution of the market itself, that is, if UCAM enters the Champions League next season, they will need five places. At the moment, he is guaranteed to have only Brazilian forward Augusto Lima, and if nothing happens, he also has Madrid player Tomás Bellas, who has the option of extending the contract for another year. The UCAM technicians are very happy with the performance the Spaniard has put in since he arrived at the azulón club.
One such player that UCAM has touched upon is Jordan Sakho (Kinsasa, 1997). His name was written down months ago and the player’s representation and entourage know the interest of the Murcian club, and now, in the post-season, it is time to position itself more firmly in the centre. Like Cate, Sakho is from 1997, is 2.07 meters tall and has a local training quota after passing through the Torrelodones quarry, and in the Endesa League he played for Manresa, Burgos (on loan from the Catalans) and Breogán , where he competed this season with averages of 4.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.
What the UCAM would be looking for in a change of these characteristics is to deliver Cate’s most egregious errors. And what the bank and management lack the most is defense and tactical order. The worst thing for the Romanian is that sometimes these flaws become alarming. On defense, he has great difficulty covering the rim once he gets his pair to the header for a straight block. When he’s on court, UCAM even defends direct blocking in a different way, with a defense that goes by his name “Emi”. And on offense, his tactical understanding of what goes on on the pitch leaves much to be desired as he has seen more than one reprimand from point guards Taylor and Bellas and coach Sito this year.
Source: La Verdad
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