The match between Valencia Basket and Unicaja in the first semifinal of the Super Cup will leave an extra incentive for the return of Kameron Taylor and Jankuba Sima to which it was his house in recent years and it is something that takes into account Carlos CabezasUnicaja ambassador and legendary player of the Malaga club, who also defines matching as “exciting, hard, beautiful and attractive“.
About the reunion with two players that until a few months ago belonged to the Malacitano club, Taylor y Sima“very dear in the city that we will now see from orange, but Surely they will be very well received because they have been two players who have left their mark“He said in statements collected by EFE.
“Starting the departure gun against Valencia Basket will be exciting. It is one of the teams that has best been reinforced and maintains a very interesting backbone,” he said Friday after the raffle in statements to the media present in the act in the City Council of Malaga.
The curse of the host
Asked if Unicaja's goal is to win the competition, as it did last year, he joked with the curse of Unicaja in the tournaments based in Malaga: “You know everything that is organized in Malaga, Sometimes it is hard for us to raise a title in the carpenabut the statistics are to break them, “he said.
The participation of the Malaga team in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup from September 18 to 21 in Singapore will be translated, according to heads, in “get very tight of timebut we are the current champions of the Super Cup and the goal is to go game by game “, although” if the injuries respect us and everything is good, it will be positive. “
New signings
On the arrival of the new signings, heads left its assessment: “We know that there are new faces, we are all looking forward to see the additions of Chris Duarte, Castañeda, Sulejmanovic … The team has changed, important players have joined, so eager to see them in action In a spectacular scenario such as the Super Cup in the carpena, “he said.
“You have to go little by little, they have to acclimatize and will surely do it very well IBON Navarro so that these players are coupled as soon as possible, but winning titles is very difficult. Hopefully we start this season getting the goals, but It will be complicated to repeat last year“The former Spanish team player about the difficulty of matching or overcoming the four Unicaja titles in the 2024/25 campaign warned.
In addition, he added that the boxes “are very attractive players in the game, such as Castañeda and Duarte. Perhaps Webb is a more solid player, with more experience, and Sulejmanovic also because he knows this league”, so he thinks “It will be very fun to see this Unicaja for its physique and for their way of playing“.
It should be remembered that days later, both teams will start the Endesa League as premises: Unicaja against Bilbao Basket and Valencia Basket, against Barcelona.
