MADRID, 12 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s basketball coach, Miguel Méndez, has assured that his players have done “excellent defensive work” in the victory against Austria (75-34), corresponding to the second day of the qualifying phase for Eurobasket 2025. and has regretted the low percentage of successes in triples despite the “level” of the internationals.
“I think we met the expectations we had. We did an excellent defensive job throughout the game, especially against their two most important players, Sigrid Koizar and Anja Fuchs-Robetin, who were left with zero points. We put in our defensive efforts and we did very well,” he said in statements provided to the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB).
On the other hand, the Galician coach explained that he moved the bench a lot to avoid tiring the players for the next league matches. “In the attack we have distributed the options a lot, we have rotated the team a lot to rest; there is a day on Thursday and a day on Sunday in the Endesa Women’s League, with which we wanted to return the players in the best possible conditions and we have made a very long rotation “he indicated.
“Many times it takes away a little offensive freshness, and we have paid for it especially in three-point shooting, which is what worries us the most. We have shot in very good positions, and with players of the level that our outsides have, it is nothing to go away of the game with the 1 of 14 that we made today, or the similar percentage that we had in Croatia,” he concluded.