“Hestia Menorca “is, by squad, one of the teams closest to the group of favorites of this First FEB,” he warned yesterday Saulo Hernández at the press conference prior to the match between Caja Rural CB Zamora and the Balearic Islands. A duel that could seem affordable for the blues based on the classification, although this is not the case, since the numbers do not correspond with the names of the Menorcans or their ambitions.
Return after the FIBA window
After the FIBA window, to which the Caja Rural CB Zamora arrived with very good feelings after adding two important victories, the First FEB resumes its competitive pulse with an uncomfortable trip for those of Saulo Hernandez. Both because of the rival's potential and because of the situation of the Zamorans.
Recognition of the potential of Hestia Menorca
The technician of the Caja Rural CB Zamora He acknowledged yesterday that Hestia Menorca is not the best of rivals to return to action after the league break. In fact, he assured that it is a top-level team. “They have one of the best squads in the competition. If they are not among the four favorites, how are they? Movistar Students, workshop, Leyma A Coruña y Super Agropal Palenciathey are not far away,” commented Hernández, stating that the level of these teams does not differ so much from that of their next rival: “if they were not there, both HLA Alicante as Hestia Menorca They are very close to them.”
Objective: play-off and promotion
As you pointed out Saulo Hernandez, Hestia Menorca “it was already a great team in the summer” when he put together a group thinking about the play-off and the promotion to Endesa League. A goal that remains fixed on the route of the Balearic Islands based on the changes they have experienced in recent weeks.
Hectic transfer market
“This First FEB is no longer the LEB Gold from before. The league has that current trend of, if something doesn't work for me, I change it,” he commented. Saulo Hernández on the hectic transfer market and the rapid movements of a Hestia Menorca who has taken the opportunity to strengthen his team even more with the most striking figures.
Quality reinforcements
“Looking at it from the outside, there is no doubt that the reinforcements they have are not handicapped,” he ironized. Saulo Hernandez yesterday, explaining that the Balearic Islands have incorporated Fernando Zurbriggenthe formerACB Thaddus McFadden oa Ignacio Rosathe last to arrive after the injury of Flynn Scott.
A transfer market that brings together talent and experience, weapons that come to correct the team's irregular start to the season. Hestia Menorca. Although, for Saulo Hernandeztheir rival's balance of three wins and five losses has a simpler explanation.
misleading balance
“If you get two, three or four of the top teams or theoretical favorites in the league at the beginning of the season, like what happened to them, Minorcait is logical that your balance sheet does not reflect your talent. Their start is called irregular because you lost against them, but I have many doubts that this is the case,” said the Caja Rural CB Zamora coach.
Saulo also took the opportunity to remember that the competition is very long and that these defeats will not alter the course of the Hestia Menorca throughout the season: “I have no doubt, they will be a team of play-off at the end of the regular league”.
Caja Rural CB Zamora, with significant losses
Beyond the tremendous and evident potential of Hestia Menorcawhat currently worries most Saulo Hernandez is not your opponent. The coach thinks, logically, of his team and, as he points out, the Caja Rural CB Zamora “He is not at his best.”
The effort made in the days before the break left casualties in the team (Roberts, Van Zegeren y Round) and the departure of Kristensen and Thrastarson to their respective national teams has not helped the training during the FIBA windows to be of quality. Besides, Octavio Brito He has ended his relationship with the team and his departure has accentuated the problem.
Optimism and confidence in the squad
Despite this, Saulo Hernandez He was optimistic yesterday. “Does that mean that you have no chance of winning? It would be more than that. Of course that's not the case. If this were so mathematical it would be very boring,” he responded, trusting in the competitive spirit of his squad.
That trust is founded. The blue block has managed to place itself in sixth position in the table on its own merits and whose good progress invites it to not have any urgency to undertake reinforcements. In that sense, the Caja Rural CB Zamora He is old school, trusts in the work and gives time for its fruits. “Today we are not thinking about signings, we are thinking about improving what we already have,” his coach concluded yesterday.
Via: Zamora's Opinion
