Bilbao Basket starts with 9 first-team players and 5 Academy players

template of Cerne Bilbao BasketballDebuted as a technician at James Ponsarnaustarted training with the group at the Miri Villa Pavilion 14 players9 of the 12 that make up the first team, and a group of 5 youth players that will strengthen in preparation.

Catalan Technicians Can’t Count In These First Weeks Rudd Hakansson and Denzel Andersonconcentrating on the Swedish team until the end of August, Emil Suleymanovichto play EuroBasket with the Bosnian national team.

Andrew Goodlock, Jeff Withey, Alex Reyes, Tomeu Rigoprevious campaigns, continue with respect to signatures Nikola Radicevic, Francis Alonso, Xabi Labaseda, Michael Kaiser, Ignacio Rosaand young Aierto Velasco, Asiel Fernandez, Elvis Ude, Unai Varandalla, Inigo Betroza formed the first group.

Speaking to the media on the Bilbao Arena pitch before conducting the session, Ponsarnau stressed that he had put together a squad “with very high minimums” that he believes will “always be competitive”.

“However We never give up on increasing the maximum, if we work, connect and have a good team atmosphere something will come. But first, we’re slowly looking for ways to consolidate the minimum number of people, taking steps to turn a good ‘roster’ into a good team. ”

Regarding his style of play, Ponsarnau said he tries to adapt to the “cultural change” of this phase by playing “dynamically from the pass in attack” and “grouply” and “adapting to the nuances” at defensive level. The opinion that the league has experienced Endesa in recent years.

The new Men in Black coach will be in his fifth season in Bilbao, with Tomeu Rigo, the team’s oldest player, and Xavi Labaceda, one of the team’s newcomers, as team captains. Also announced that

“Tomeu has the most knowledge of the club and the city and we appreciate his mentality. We believe he will help us a lot. About the number of games played and his experience with different dynamics and his experience as a cohesive group,” Ponsarnau claimed.