MADRID, 22 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The women’s national basketball coach, Miguel Méndez, highlighted the wardrobe of Spain to be able to perform at the highest level and effectiveness whoever plays, “all important” as a hallmark in the return to a Eurobasket semifinal.
“I have the best feeling a coach can have after the game, of not having done much. They made the game by themselves. They behaved like a team, they followed the lines that we told them. It gives me the feeling that I have had to give rest rotations and little else”, he said at a press conference after the beating of Germany in the quarterfinals.
The Galician coach highlighted the progress of his team, in his first championship as coach. “I don’t know if it was our best game. It’s the one we’ve controlled the most from the beginning. They are a team for the future, there are important players who are young, with little experience in competition and have paid for our start to the game. They haven’t managed get into the game,” he said.
Spain authoritatively dominated a Germany in training with a view to their World Cup in 2026 and met Hungary in the semifinals. “In other moments of the championship we have been at a high level, although without the sensation that we have had today of dominance. We are growing. It is my first championship with the players, and they with me, and we have been growing, adjusting things, it is something to highlight “Players who have played little, have appeared today. They are all important, it is what best defines our basketball,” he said.
In addition, Méndez was asked about Hungary, a double-game rival in preparation, and about the difficulties that their inside game could entail. “Every time they scare us with the centers and I have the MVP here (Laura Gil), we trust our centers a lot. We are a team, the centers are helped by the little ones,” he concluded.