Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Feb. 3 (Europa Press) –
The national basketball coach, Miguel Méndez, revealed that “many players” have “touched” the last ‘window’ of classification for the Eurobasket next summer, so they must “balance efforts well and teach the style” To the youngest, in a call to seek the “classification” to the tournament, for which they need only a victory, and “give rest” to the most common.
“First, ensuring the classification, we are going to play two competition games and, as always, we will try to win them, but the fact of being practically classified makes us give rest to some players who are very loaded with minutes and travel, because our League is the toughest in Europe, the only European League with 16 teams and there are matches with many and many trips, “said the coach in statements to the media from the José Antonio Paraíso Pavilion in Torrejón de Ardoz.
Thus, Méndez tried to “expand the list as much as possible” for the two meetings of the classification phase before Austria and the Netherlands, to “see them all, see the good and the bad.” “It is interesting to see young players, their behavior in matches and training, of course, but especially in matches playing away from home,” he said.
“Within the most-end when bringing players to the group, players who are able to work as a team and occupy different roles that they have in their teams, which are the most difficult thing that national teams have. All players That come here they have a very prominent role in their team, the 24-25 players we have brought, they all have a leading role, and here not all of them can have it, “he explained about the team’s maximum work.
Méndez said that the selection works like all groups, with “a titular quintet, first rotations, second rotations and specialists.” “A starting player in her team and with a lot of prominence, many times you ask him to leave from the bench to the end of the third quarter and give up. They all want to do it, because the predisposition is always maximum, but not all of them can do it. Between wanting and Power is a difference and it is an important factor when making decisions, “he added.
And in that “natural” process of adaptation of the youngest, the most veteran players are key. “In the construction of team the experienced players are important and we deal in this new cycle that we start now, with a view to the Games of 2028, to be clear when making decisions,” he recalled.
“It seems basic to me that there are expert players, veteran, who have already lived these situations and that by their way of being, not only for their quality, they are able to combine individual objectives to the groups and to teach them with their professional behavior. We will always have two or three experienced players, players of a certain age who know not to get as anxious or as nervous as the young people, “he defended.
In addition, in this concentration it was important to rotate so as not to saturate the most common. “The contribution that all the players can have, which is the first or second time they come, because in the end the tactical concepts are different from those of their team, the way of playing, the style is different and is different and We don’t have time, “he said.
“Aina Ayuso, with the second Base Carmen Grande injured, comes from playing 36 minutes in the Canary Islands, plus the trip. We have many very touched players and we have to balance the efforts well with teaching the movements and the style of play we want,” he said About the physical state of the team.
Thus, although “exactly” knows what level the selection will be in these games, expects “intensity”, “defensive level and knowledge of the game that Spanish players have”, which “from a young age are already playing matches Important, be sufficient to face these two games “against Austria and the Netherlands.
About Maria Conde, injured by Achilles, Méndez acknowledged that “it is a very strong blow.” “First, on a personal level. Maria is having very bad luck when the time of the National Team is. summers, plus this three, who will be out. That was, “he praised.
And he highlighted the young Awa Fam, 18, “one of the important pivots of the next 10 years or 15 years”, because “he has everything, he has the physique, he has the talent, he wants to want to do it because the Basketball is her passion and is a woman who will surely be in the national team for many years and will be an important part of European basketball over the next few years, “he predicted.
“He has that capacity when he plays 100% of his chances of playing against anyone and, with the age he is, his irregularity is his weak point. He can happen in a game to eat the hoop, the next game be a little more loose and You have to look for that irregularity, but we talk about adolescence.
The current continental runner -up will play this last ‘FIBA window’ with the classification for the practically on track and that will seal with one more victory. The first attempt will be before the Austrian team on Thursday, February 6, while three days later I would visit the Dutch.