LAt the importance of the Spanish player in the Endesa League, it is still down. It is demonstrated once again in the best quintets of the competition. For the second season followed, there are no national players either in the first or in the second. The last one who made a hole in them was Joel Parrain the 2022-23 course, the last one that happened in the Joventut.
The alarming trend comes from afar. In the last 10 campaigns, since the best quintet and the second, of the 100 players chosen, only eight were born in Spain: the aforementioned case of Parra, Xavi López-Aróstegui (in the first in 2021), Alberto Abalde (in the second in 2020), Javi Beirán and Jaime Fernández (in the second in 2019), Sergio Llull (in the first in 2017) and Sergio Rodríguez and Alexe Mumbrú (In the first in 2016). To find a national MVP you have to go back until 2017, when the award took it Llull.
Joel Parra, member of the second best quintet in the Endesa League in 2023.
Entering the best quintets is very complicated due to the hard existing competition, but the difficulty multiplies if the weight in the equipment is reduced. It is what happens with national players. In the absence of the last day of the Endesa League, after the statistics will virtually change, There are only two Spaniards among the 50 players who have averaged more minutes: Santi Yusta, in 19th place, and Oriol Paulí, in 37. They are the only ones that reach an average of 23 minutes on the track.
An impossible mission
At pointsthey are two national players that appear in the top 50 and for the hair: Again Yusta (46º) and Fran Guerra (47th). Y In assessment There are three: Guerra (29º), Joel Parra (39º) Y Willy Hernangome (41º). Getting hollow among the best with such prominence is an impossible mission.
Santi Yusta begins an entrance to the basket before the defense of Pau Ribas.
After so long, there is enough trust to consider Marcelinho Huertas, MVP of the Endesa League to its 42 years, to Tomic (38) already Gio Shermadini (36) Like ours. At least they are from foreigners who threw roots in a team. It is a comfort seeing the Spanish representation in the ideal quintets of the competition.
