Ivanovic: “First of all, the players need to have confidence”

The new coach of Baskonia, Dasko Ivanovic, “The first thing we have to do is give the players confidence,” he said on Tuesday.

The Montenegrin will be completing his fourth stage on the bench of the Vitoria club, and at the official presentation he said: “I’m happy to have won.” Buesa Arena Also.

“I’ve always said this is a club and a city that I feel is mine. When they called me to come help, I had the same enthusiasm as when I started. “Because I love basketball, I love this club, and I want to do well,” the Vulcan explained, confirming that “now comes the difficult part.”

“The team has changed and so have I,” is how he normally described his final departure from the Basque club, which will be two years old in 15 days.

“That’s part of our job. We depend on results and the results weren’t good,” the manager admitted, calling for “patience” to get where we want to go. “They are a very important part of this work,” he said of the new students.

Four of them will repeat the final stage, but he confessed that this situation “might help them” more than himself.

He revealed that he did not expect to participate. victoria That’s because he’s still “surprised” by his recent departure. Red Star.

“I’m very happy and very excited about the job,” he said.

Regarding the injury problem, he pointed out that there are six players in development, but clarified that “We are playing with five players who are ready to win.”

” I will say Hosean (Kereheta) “When I came here, I said I wanted to win, and I came to win,” he said of his aspirations.

In this sense, he confessed that he asked the club for a contract, revealing that the Basque entity is looking for a point guard. “It’s not easy because a lot of people are looking for a quality point guard,” he said.

on the other hand, Dusko Ivanovich He didn’t talk about the coaching staff, instead focusing on the players.

The sports director of Baskonia, Felix Fernandez, welcomed the Balkans. “He’s one of us,” he said, adding that the team hired him because they were “confident” about his employment and his return to the team. Baskonia.

“It’s not easy to make these decisions, but we have to make changes because our situation is not good, and this is one of them,” he assumed. Felix Fernandezhighly praised the work of Joan Penaroya He also revealed that he respects the coach’s appearance “at all times.”

“Things are written without verification and it hurts people and organizations,” the Vasconist spokesperson stressed, acknowledging that they are “in a complicated time” and calling for the unity of all Vasconists, including the media. I called out.

Furthermore, he revealed: Nikos Rogkavopoulos He will be sidelined for more than a month with a fibrous injury, but the team has never considered releasing any players.