There the contribution of Ricky Rubio will be important even though it is not his specialty

Posted by aperez | April 30, 2020 | Blog

There the contribution of Ricky Rubio will be important even though it is not his specialty

The boys have to understand that every training has to be like a war. Then, of course, in the end there have to be talented people who are very involved with the club, with this shirt. And in the end hopefully we get to win.

Defense is being one of its hallmarks. From her everything flows …

We are improving in defense, we are improving in attack. But I think that drawing conclusions this season with injuries, the virus is very difficult. I don’t look at the rankings much, I only care to improve, as I have said before, and lay the foundations so that, hopefully, it will serve us in the second part of the season to win.

You are quite a character. If you have to take a row, throw it away …

In the end one is as it is. The truth is that I try to reach the players in different ways. Sometimes speaking one way, other times another. The world of basketball is going very fast and in the end we don’t have much time to slowly explain how things are. And sometimes you have to say it in a way, let’s say, more aggressive than in other situations.

They live together, one more season with an infernal calendar with several competitions. Where is this all going?

I dont know. I believe that this atypical season with the virus you have to survive. We know that if we cannot play due to the coronavirus one week another will wait for us with three games. It’s time to survive. Last year we saw that the Euroleague with 18 teams worked. It is true that with a high load for the players, but manageable. In this there will be very bad weeks. We agree on that. Combining the Euroleague with the ACB League is very hard but, well, everyone is suffering and we are no different.

Do we place Barça among the favorites in the Euroleague?

To place it or not to place it, you journalists can do it. What matters to me is growing game by game. We know who we are, we have talent but for me, as I have said before, the key is to grow, grow and grow.

Let’s change the third. You are a Barça member who has experienced the resignation of Bartomeu’s board. In January there will be elections for the presidency, the football team, which you are a good fan, is going as it is. How do you see the stage?

Speaking of football, I think we are in an early part of the season. Sometimes there are seasons where you start well and end badly and vice versa. But he still has nothing lost, he has players with experience, character and quality and I think they will succeed. And the new president, as we are in a democratic club, the members will choose the candidate they want and hopefully things will go well.

And what would Saras ask the new president of Barça?

It is very difficult to say. Those who come will do so with their ideas. What we want is for them to take the club as high as possible, which I’m sure they will do to continue to be among the best in Europe.

Partner 86,993

For years Sarunas Jasikevicius has made his Barça militancy clear. But it is not an affirmation for the gallery but rather that the Lithuanian technician has been a member of the entity since 2006 with the 86,993 card. Since he arrived at Barça as a player in 2000, he fell in love with the city and even opened a restaurant business there and bought a house. His first stage at the Barça club (2000-2003) marked him. Then the paths of both parties would separate and they would only meet again in a fleeting way in the 2012-13 season when Saras evolved under the command of Xavi Pascual.

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Some time later Jasikevicius would hang up his boots and start his coaching career. In all this time he would never forget Barcelona -which he visited when he could- or Barça always proudly exercising his barcelonaism. Until last summer the planets aligned and Jasikevicius – a good football fan too – ended up becoming Barça’s new coach.

As SPORT recounted, Ronald Koeman begins to be questioned about the costumes. Mainly, because of his fixation with the use of 4-2-3-1, a system that players consider to be more harmful than helping to bring out all the football that he has inside. Despite the poor results obtained, the Dutch coach feels strong and remains optimistic.

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As reported by the journalist Lluís Canut, whose personal relationship with Ronald Koeman is close, the Barça coach "he is optimistic, he does not lose his tone or hope".

"Ronald does not understand the disappointment of the people because the team is in the second round"Canut assured in statements to ‘El Partidazo de COPE’.

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"He is not angry with the players"added the journalist when asked about the Dutch coach’s statements after falling in Cádiz, in which he claimed to be very angry with his squad.

Hours earlier, in statements to La Porteria de Betevé, Canut himself explained that Koeman’s initial intention in summer was to be able to sign Romelu Lukaku, Inter Milan’s Belgian striker. "It was his letter to the Kings"commented the journalist about Ronald’s frustrated wish.

The Spanish team has four victories and one defeat (90-81 against the United States in the preparation of a World Cup in China that is almost around the corner.

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To date, the assessment is positive, but now is the time to give a new twist so that the distribution of minutes is more similar to what we will see from August 31, the day of the ‘premiere’ against Tunisia.

The goal set by all is to get on the podium, something that Spain has only achieved once. And it was with capital letters, the gold of Japan 2006 with Pau Gasol as MVP of the tournament.

1. Ricky, a leading point guard

Even more so since Sergio Rodríguez’s ‘no’ and taking into account how important he has always been for Scariolo, it was clear that Ricky Rubio would be the great reference in the Spanish game direction.

The one from El Masnou confirmed against the United States his ample capacity to take the reins of the team. Quick on defense and skilled on penetrations, his great challenge will be to help a little more on the perimeter.

Ricky Rubio must command and score in this selection | EFE

Apparently so far, his squire will be Sergio Llull, whom the coach sees more as a point guard than as a guard after the loss of “Chacho”. The Spaniard once again remembers the one from before the injury. To complete 1xbet live betting the position of ‘1’ and except for surprise in the discards, Quino Colom.

2. Marc Gasol, the new ‘boss’

The Catalan pivot finished a very hard course by conquering the precious ring with the Raptors and he has taken this preparation with the Spanish team in an intelligent way.

Marc Gasol is fully aware that the absences of several ‘heavyweights’ starting with his brother Pau make him the new great emblem of the team. And he has accepted it without hesitation. “It is time for everyone to be a reference,” he admitted just before starting the concentration.

Marc Gasol is the great reference of the current selection | EFE

Lethal from the perimeter with that peculiar shot almost without jumping, the Gasol middleweight will have to multiply under the hoops and will have to dose himself to be in a position to play 30 minutes in the crosses after an accessible group stage in which Scariolo will be able to rotate a lot .

3. Learn to live without Pau

In the last three decades, the Spanish team has revolved around Pau Gasol. With great regret, the double winner of the NBA with the Lakers, the former Barça player, has been forced to withdraw from the World Cup after undergoing surgery to solve a heavy ankle injury.

Pau Gasol, with the national team during the concentration in Madrid | FEB

With the memory of the European Championship in France 2015 in which Pau sat the chair and with the Rio Games as the closest precedent, this time the ‘giant’ will not be there and we will have to see what happens at key moments.

4. The second unit

With Juan Carlos Navarro retired and without Pau Gasol, Sergio Rodríguez, Nikola Mirotic or Serge Ibaka, it is clear that the performance of the so-called ‘second unit’ will be decisive.

Of them, one of the best responding is Pierre Oriola, who brings his usual rebounding ability and is proving very successful in shooting three.

In parallel, other players will have to make better use of their minutes and contribute more. And we talk about Víctor Claver, also Barça player, and the Hernangómez brothers, Willy and, above all, Juancho.

Spain will need the maximum contribution from substitute theorists | FEB

Straddling the ‘referents’ and the substitutes, both is Rudy Fernández, who finished the season of candy and seems to continue at a high level.

5. Adjustments and exterior shot

Following the dynamics of modern basketball, it will be a World Cup marked by physical play and by shooting from beyond 6.75 meters.

There the contribution of Ricky Rubio will be important even though it is not his specialty. Rudy, Llull, Ribas, Claver, Marc and Oriola should shine there.