Conrad Martínez, Bassala Bagayoko, Aday Mara, Youssouf Traore, Papa Miller, Urban Klavzar or Álvaro Folgueiras are some of the names that have shone in the Spanish Junior Men’s Championship in Huelva. We review the numbers of the stars of the future.
The Júnior de Huelva has had a great sporting level, with emotion on the slopes, surprises and individual performances of a very high level. Three days from the final, the cold numbers give us a still photo with many details to discover on the track.
The title went to Badalona, with a Joventut generation that has shown tremendous competitiveness, pulling off difficult matches such as the semi-final against Casademont Zaragoza, and the final against Madrid. Brightness Conrad Martinez, a very talented point guard who was the tournament’s best in total assists (28), second in points (14.4) and fourth in PIR (17.14). But next to him stood out Jordi Rodrígueza very reliable shooter (14.3 points per game) and Rubén de Oliveira, effective in the paint (8.7 rebounds).
In the case of the finalist, Real Madrid, the numbers are spread out more among the 12 players, who rotated their playing time and responsibilities a lot until the final matches. However, the Slovenian point guard Urban Klavzar He finished as the absolute top scorer (104 points, with an average of 14.5 per game). In the statistical tops they also appear Father Miller (14.8 mean rating) and Henri Veesaar (12.4).
The two semi-finalists left an extraordinary impression in Huelva. From Casademont Zaragoza, three names stand out above the rest: Candidate Mara, second most valued (17.9) and top rebounder (9.0); Pavle Stosic (10.8 points and 9.0 rebounds); Y Lucas Langarita (12.4 points). Mara is the great interior promise of Spanish basketball; Stosic is a Serbian forward with a spectacular physique; and Langarita is an off-road escort with great projection. On the other hand, Valencia Basket highlighted four players from the 2005 generation, who may be in the tournament next year: Lucas Mari, Sergio de Larrea, Adrián Salvador and Pablo Navarro.
In the top 25 players with the highest absolute rating credits are also players from teams that were eliminated in the previous rounds or even in the first phase. Here we can talk about spectacular apparitions, such as those of Youssouf Traore (21.5 val), the player from Torrelodones who has impressed while still a cadet; Manuel Ruano (25.0), the Cafés Candelas Ensino player who averaged spectacular numbers; either Joseph David Gomez (17.7), the most outstanding player of Real Betis Basketball.
Other well-known players who have already debuted in the ACB have also shone, such as the Fuenlabrada and Barça pivots They did Bagayoko (30.5) o James Nnaji (18.2). good numbers for Álvaro Folgueiras (16.8), the pearl of Unicaja; or of Sidy Cissoko (19.25), who played the same week in LEB Oro (Juaristi), EBA (Baskonia) and the junior championship (Fundación 5+11). Finally, mention players like Mike Mukendi (Torrelodones), Martin Iglesias (Barça), David Acosta (Cajasiete Canarias) or Jose Tanchyn (Unicaja).
