Only three days before CB Gran Canaria faces one of the most important matches in the club’s history, the Eurocup final on Wednesday against Turk Telekom at the Arena, the yellow team has to complete the duel corresponding to the thirtieth day of the league championship against Girona this Sunday at the coliseum of seven palms (12.00 hours).
Although in professional basketball, as also occurs in football, the continuous carousel of matches combining the different national and international competitions is already customary, when it comes to a moment as transcendent as the fight for a European title, it sounds strange that the responsible for the competition in your country, In this case, the ACB is not capable of accepting the alternatives presented by the club involved to alleviate the calendar.
And in this situation, Granca has found itself, which must face an entire Eurocup final with only three days of preparation, with which this has an impact on the issue of fatigue and also the danger that one of its players could be injured and lose the decisive match in the European tournament.
Even a restrained guy like Jaka Lakovic, coach of the Claretian team, expressed his complaints on this Friday. “In other leagues they try to help the clubs that play European competitions, but that doesn’t seem to matter here.“In fact, the yellows’ rival on Wednesday, Turk Telekom, is exempt from playing their Turkish league clash.
“I am not only talking about the case of Granca, but also about other teams such as Real Madrid or Joventut. The ACB did not want to listen to the ideas,” the Slovenian declared in the preview of the clash against Bàsquet Girona directed by Aíto García Reneses in the technical plot and commanded on the track by the president-player Marc Gasol.
A duel in which there is a special circumstance, since the two coaches who have led Gran Canaria to their only two appearances in a Eurocup final will be on the bench.
This is what the current coach of the yellow box was referring to “We all know what Aíto means in Spanish and world basketball. The detail that we are the two coaches who have reached a European final with Granca is pure statistics.”
“It’s always a challenge to face a coach like García Reneses, I’ve done it in Germany and it’s always an honor and motivation to be up against a great man like him”, concluded the Slovenian coach.
2023-04-28 17:25:01
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