When we talk about Ricky Rubiopossibly we do one of the best players of all time of our country. At 31 years old, he has been linked to the sport of the basket for a lifetime and can boast of being one of the great point guards in the history of national basketball. However, despite his incredible numbers and his ability to break down defenses thanks to his analytical ability, there was a time when was much discussed. The reason? I pull it from him.
Rubio made his ACB debut with Joventut when he was only 15 years old and soon became a breath of fresh air for national basketball. He was a player capable of everything: he read the game perfectly, he was brave in attack and a great defender, which soon earned him the attention of the big teams. After signing for Barcelona in 2009, a couple of years later he would become NBA player… where he was not always valued as he deserved and was even criticized.
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Some North American media even stated that it was one of the bases with the worst shot in the history of the competition, especially since Ricky ‘forgot’ about the basket. In his first years in the NBA, aware that in the melee he had everything to lose, he decided to become a luxury assistant while fucking muscle. He soon gained the mass needed to compete, but he took a liking to making his teammates shine.
And although it is no less true that their scoring percentages have clearly improved, with an NBA average of more than 11 points per game in his eleven seasons in the competition, Ricky has kept that stigma. In fact, you just have to see how he has become the great leader of the National Team’s recent titles, where his scoring contribution has been basic. He is undoubtedly a case very similar to that of Ada Toribiothe future jewel of national basketball.
At only 14 years old, Ada Toribio is called to be one of the great basketball references in our country. Not in vain, in the first major tournament of the category, the LF Endesa Mini Cup, she has become the MVP and the leader of her team, Movistar Estudiantes, to lead them to the final victory in the championship. And it is that this young woman, who despite her insulting youth has been playing in the world of basketball for several years, is a breath of fresh air and is called to great successes.
Trained in the lower categories of Las Rozas, from where he already began to make a name for himself, Toribio signed for Movistar Estudiantes last year, where he has become a benchmark. In fact, in the Mini Cup it has been her explosion: she has averaged 14.8 points, 6 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 4.5 stealsespecially standing out in the final, in which he led his team to a 48-60 win against IDK Euskotren, in which he was the star of the match.
During the big game Toribio was the great leader of Students and, despite his young age, he showed a veteran on the court unbecoming of someone so young. In the final he recorded 25 points, 10 rebounds, 8 steals and 4 assists… and, all this, knowing that his great ‘must’ is the launch. Just like what happened to Ricky Rubio, he still has a lot to improve in shooting, although he is a real reference in sharing the game and leading the team with the ball in his hands.
It is still early to know what your ceiling will be, but the truth is that the young player has everything to become one of the great references of national basketball in the coming years. In fact, ever since she started playing sports, her level has been so high that she has always played with classmates who were one or two years older than her. In the Mini Cup he has shown his enormous quality: it remains to be seen where he ends up, but with only one more year, Ricky was already making his debut in the ACB…
