Valuation. “Our first half is at a very low level, especially offensively. Back, with our mistakes, but we have played. In the second quarter a lot of easy baskets, the first ended 13-13, neither team was happy, we weren’t playing. In the second they make a growth spurt, offensively we were very bad, under the basket, losses against pressure, passing the ball very badly and the team has gone down quite a bit for not scoring. We spoke rest to change things, react, in the third we came out with a different tone. We made a change in the pick and roll defense, they have been successful, changing points, which does not interest us, and when we started with a different offensive rhythm in the fourth quarter, with different things, defensive tone with a quintet that has been difficult, but with offensive rhythm and we found it in the end. We scored more and more, playing the spaces better, moving the ball, making baskets, defending a little better. Without playing a great game, victory is very important because of everything we are going through, injuries, doubts. For the team with 16 down, the easy thing is to give up and throw it away and we have fought until the end, with that preseason character that we have been building, fighting until the end, until the last ball. “I want the group to understand that by fighting until the end we are going to win games in this league.”
Irruption of Agustí Sans and moment in which the team clicks. “When we made open shots. We have hesitated a lot with layups, short shots, steps… you have to have a high level to play here. When the team has seen what we want to be, going 10 down, finding open shots for Kovacevic, Nathan, some rolls, the team has believed. This is Agustí Sans, searching and finding the advantages, choosing, we have grown. We made the click there, when we found the game, physically we are not bad if we do this last quarter, the boys are mentally capable of getting there. The issue is what happened before, they have stopped us, the pressure they have prepared for us. And then we failed, we didn’t have any rhythm.”
Turning point? “I believe, I think and I want. That’s what I told you, we played well, this team is convinced, it doesn’t depend on scoring all the time, it can play well. If you don’t play well, you don’t win, in the last quarter it is a good quarter, but it is only a few minutes. I think we are capable of doing it longer, more minutes, that’s what I want. They are good guys, it’s not just the ending that matters to us. I am delighted for winning on a track that is not easy and for not throwing in the towel. May this give us the character to stick with us until the end.”
Atmosphere in Bintaufa. “I remember being here years ago in a locker room an hour before, a tremendous noise. The basketball atmosphere was amazing and it is recovering. Nice, the team is very good, it is important. This island has had a lot, that projects like this go up, it is important for everyone.”
