In this 2025/26 season, Unicaja has had to reinvent yourself on two occasions, at least for now. One, at the beginning of the course, with the departures and arrivals of the new team trained by Ibon Navarro; and another, continuously, during the season, because if it was being difficult the adaptation -slower than budgeted and desired- of the news And of those who continued, who also had to modify things, the appearance of injuries ended up precipitating amendments to the initial planning.
Regarding injuries, there is very little to do. Furthermore, it is something that is on the agenda of all participants. If here we feel like complaining about the bad luck in what has happened to David Kravishmuch more so by having the format of a squad of 13 players instead of last year's 14, I don't know what they would have to do in Granada that apart from the manifest scarcity of resources of the Coviranthey find that the FIBA ​​windows scam returns them to Elias Valtonen already Jovan Kljajic injured. Furthermore, without being participations required by the “payment” of obtaining the passport that improves the administrative status of the player.
With the arrival of Augustine Rubit and of Chase Audigein addition to the continuity (for now) of Xavier Castanedathe Unicaja 2025/2026 squad is expanded, especially with the addition of troops to the outside game, because with Rubit what is replaced is the absence of the injured person Kravish in the painting.
In cases of Audige and with the new version of Castanedathe Bosnian international, used as a point guard, is expected to be productive. I won't say more, because less was complicated. And above all, he made it clear that his signing was not something out of logic, because neither the player's career nor previous acquisitions by the club raised any doubts about the convenience of his arrival. But you can't always get it one hundred percent right and at this point: either it improves, or its place is far from Málaga.
Regarding the former player of the Bosnia SarajevoOr, it is expected that he will appear in attack in a productive way and in things that are out of the card. But behind, I think that is where the most decisive commitment is made to him. He must ensure that he is important defensively and that the team tries to return to its style book.
Not only do we have to see what the newcomers contribute, the increase in importance of Chris Duarte at the scoring level, also adding to that as a passer, with 3.5 assists on average. The Dominican is the second best on the team in this department of the game (21st place in the general league table, only behind in the boxing team of Kendrick Perryin position 12, with 4.4).
The improvement of Duarte It is great news because, in addition, it silences that “bad” noise that is magically transmuted into applause with a great performance. Which also affects both James Webb III like to Emir Sulejmanoviceach one in a different role, but who increase their contribution to the group as the training sessions and games go by.
Everything looks better after another victory, with the team on the best winning streak of this season: 4 consecutive victories in ACB, 6 in total adding the FIBA BCL. The thing, to be honest, is that the rivals are not the most complicated in the table and simply looking at the next ones that are to come in the remainder of the month: Kosner Baskonia, Real Madrid y youthit seems that we are facing much more complicated games.
With homework done in terms of results, having the second phase of the Basketball Champions League starting January 20, when Ibon Navarro will have completed 400 games in ACB on the previous day, during the visit of Coviran GranadaWe must hope that this integration, even while it is underway, is as fast as the team demands and the rivals demand. And the competition is not going to give you respite.
