Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Feb. 15 (Europa Press) –
The coach of the Unicaja of Malaga, Ibon Navarro, stressed having “changed” simply to “the players” during the third period of his victorious semifinal of the Copa del Rey against the Laguna Tenerife, denying having “changed any inertia” for the management of that instance in previous matches such as before the Bàsquet Girona and the Breogán River.
“What we have changed are the players, I have not changed any inertia. What happens is that you have to see how, who and why we start the third quarter and the last games in a way, and how we have done it today. You always I have said that the matches between the end of the regular league and the Copa del Rey happens because the teams have to do things to get well here. .
“First I want to congratulate the Tenerife lagoon for what done in this Copa del Rey and for what they are doing in this season. I went back to what I said at the press conference in Badalona. For us they are a reference of how a Middle and long term project.
“And obviously congratulate the team for the classification for the final. I think the kids have done a fantastic job. Players that are generally important in our game, such as Kendrick, such as Dylan or like Tyson, today have been a little worse. What we have is that others have appeared, such as Yankuba, Alberto, Jonathan Barreiro, Tyler’s deaf work … other players have appeared. When we know who touches, we will get to work, “he predicted on the appointment for the title.
“He hit me [Sima] He has been in the first quarter also very incisive in the rebound, he has given us many baskets under the hoop. And Alberto [Díaz] It seems that he looks because he has made three of three in triples, I think, but he has put a fundamental basket at the end. But what has allowed us to compete and break the game is what it has done in the second part of the third quarter and the beginning of the last, “he praised.
In this sense, he praised “how it has pressed Marcelinho, how he has not let them play, the level of pressure to the ball …” “is that it has been imperial. Of course, if then it puts it, it is already the repanocha. But What he has done behind, which is what allows us to be competitive, is that each player does his role well; Sometimes he is not usually so common, which knows that he helps the team to win, he has done it perfectly, from Clinic, “the green coach apostilled.
“We had to accelerate the game, but not only from the attack, also from the defense. Those are a bit of the risks we have taken. It has led us to fit about 90% in two -point shots in the first part, but but I also think we were doing something well.
“But well, we have continued with that rhythm and I think that in the third quarter we have taken revenue. And we have ended with 19 more than our second parts are. I think that we have managed to force them to do something that is not what it is not what it is not What better do, it is not that they do it wrong, but it is not what they do best, “said the Unicaja coach.
Thus, he was glad to “take a difference in the scoreboard at the end of the third quarter that has served more or less administer to take us to the game.” “You can run, but it is not enough to run forward. You also have to try to accelerate the game with Tenerife from the defense and I think that is what we have done well today,” he explained.
Finally, he talked about why Olek Balceowski had stayed out of the call for the second consecutive game. “And who would not have been a surprise then? Tell me, who would not have been a surprise to stay out today with the game they all did on Thursday?” He replied to the journalist who had pointed out that issue.
“It would always have been a surprise because now I have 13 health Who let’s play, “he reflected about the final.