Baskonia and Pablo Laso there is no one who understands it. Look where you look, The vitorian coach of the team a year after having returned home It is bad news for both parties. And of course, a difficult decision to justify with a technician with an important background behind them and to the one they had signed until 2027.
Baskonia has been living a last five years for oblivion. The last great baskonist joy was the BC of the bubble, winning Barça in that tight final thanks to the smart basket of Luca Vildoza, executing a wonderful door back on Kyle Kuric. But from that five years have passed, and along the way, too many disappointments have been experienced regarding what the Vitorian team had accustomed us in recent years.
Has practically become a Mission Impossible to achieve the ticket for the Copa del Rey. Baskonia was absent in Granada 2022, and after returning a year later in Badalona, The Vitorians caused both in Malaga again last year, and in Gran Canaria the last February. In Euroleague, the presiding team Josean Querejeta He closed a disappointing course with only 14 victories that left him out of the Play-In and Playoff positions.
Pablo Laso, in a match at the Palau Blaugrana in front of Baskonia / ACB Photo – Marc Graupera
The need to expand the roster
All this with a somewhat outdated model in terms of number of players in the template. European basketball has evolved in recent years, and the next campaign will still be played four more regular Euroleague phase. It is no longer worth having eight or nine very good payers on payroll and completing the roster with 'Retales'.
Any team that wants to aspire to have a pleasant coexistence combining the European competition with the fierce Endesa League, must go to Templates of 14-15 players. Something indispensable for teams that can be easily left above the 80 games in a course, also taking into account some factors that can appear such as injuries.
Pablo Laso, Junto the Markus Howard / ACB Photo – Aitor Bouzo
It has not been a good first season at the head of Baskonia
With that will to put Baskonia back in place, Pablo Laso decided to return home. He did it after having practically closed his continuity in a Bayern Munich with which he won Cup and Bundesliga in his only course for Bavarian lands. Of course, the first year of the Vitorian coach at the head of the team has not met the high and exciting expectations generated with his arrival. That Baskonia does not put either in the cup, or in the Euroleague playoff, and that he says goodbye to the first change of the qualifiers for the ACB complete a bad season. But do not the stability projects need, and more in a summer in which the baskonist template will suffer a wide remodeling?
Querejeta has already informed him of his dismissal
In fact, Baskonia decided to bet a few weeks ago for hiring a Xevi Pujol that landed in the Buesa after his good job at the head of the sports management of Baxi Manresa in recent years. But the noise on a possible output of Laso was beginning to be stronger as the days went by. And now, only the official confirmation of his dismissal remains, since according to 'EFE', Querejeta himself told Laso his dismissal. The Vitorian coach, who had two more signed seasons with Baskonia, said goodbye to the group and the coaching staff, communicating their departure, as noted by the same information.
Everything points to what Paolo Galbiati He will take Laso's witness on Baskonia's bench. Discounted a few days ago from the Italian thunder, everything indicates that the coach will sign a contract for the next two seasons. We will see if it has the confidence of those above and if the results accompany. But it is urgent that Baskonia recover the sanity again later, and that decisions such as ventilating a coach like Pablo Laso after the first of the three years signed are stopped taking so lightly. Meanwhile, the Vitorian coach enters the list of possible coach who can relieve SERGIO SCARIOLO in front of 'the family'.
