“In training you adjust to the systems, but it is playing when you meet the team”, they repeat from within the Spanish Basketball Team. The time to train and try out in front of the towers of the Madrid Plaza Castilla in the Golden Triangle and the real action arrives. Venezuela, a non-candidate team for the title in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines but competitive, at the WiZink Center.
The ‘Vinotinto’, above all, is a World Cup team. She is drawn in group F, which will play its matches in Okinawa. His group is highly complicated, summoning himself before the Luka Doncic’s Slovenia, Cape Verde, with Tavares in command, and Georgia, with Gio Shermadini and Toko Shengelia. For this reason, Spain is a top level rival.
Venezuela is an uncomfortable team because of the shooting. It comes from losing in the last second of their friendly against Argentina, a great absence from the World Cup, with a three-pointer from Redivo (66-65) and showed his ability to compete. “We have opted for a calendar to strengthen ourselves against the world powers and we went one step further. That is what is important for the group,” said Fernando Dur, their coach.
Timeout of the match against Argentina.
Mainly, looks have to go to Michael Carrera. He is the new star of the new Movistar Estudiantes project in LEB Oro. His last season he had great moments in Lleida, winning eight awards for the most valued player. He went to Gran Canaria, but the lack of continuity leads him to WiZink, precisely. Against Argentina he left 14 points and 6 rebounds.
Although the ‘Vinotinto’ wants to learn. “We are testing the best alternatives for the first game of the World Cup and I take these games as part of learning,” Dur said.. His deficit is scoring, something that Spain will be able to punish from the first moment of the game.
