The past was so prosperous that the future can not give anything else than vertigo.
But the feared change of cycle in the selection is not new.
A warning, prescribed again and again – from 2008 it is carried away ‘dismissing’ Pau, which was already buried.
The evidence show that nothing will be as full as in yesterday.
Even this selection of Sergio Scariolo of recent years has already had to resort to other ‘things’ (defense, tactical wisdom …) to lengthen fullness.
That baggage and the irruption of the new generations is what is grabbed the Spanish basketball that the transition is softer.
There will be no one of the golden juniors, with Pau Gasol as the last vestige.
Nor Marc. And maybe Rudy, Sergio Rodríguez and Llull have played and his last game with Spain.
Ricky Rubio cost him enough to even go to these games, but his age (30 years old) and his rings with that shirt (it is impossible to overlook his 38 historical points against the USA Team), it is very likely that the base follows
to the controls.
Reasons to continue believing?
This Tuesday, in the moments of truth, on track was already the future: Willy Hernangomen, Usman Garuba, Abalde …
“For me, a cycle is not over, because the cycle has never finished evolving and continues to do so. Logically, it’s a moment of change,” said Garbajosa.
If something has been committed to the Federation is that those values of the family, which can be summarized in commitment and competitiveness, were ‘tattooed’ to the new generations by those who made them legend.
That is why, that Pau, Marc or in his Navarro day, Felipe or Calderón will extend his careers with Spain was not just a tribute.
“LLULL, ABRINES, ABALDE, THE HERNANGOMEZ … They have had the privilege of learning how it is competed, how it is played for the national team,” said the president.
To this feeling of belonging joins the technical work that leads Scariolo himself even with the training categories.
And, of course, own names.
Because, at full age there is still a good handful.
In the rostrum it was yesterday, for example, Juancho Hernangomen.
Pierre Oriola and Sebas Saiz, two towers of guarantees, stayed at the courts.
And at the appointment nikola mirotic was missing.
Many of the windows could have been in Tokyo as Xabi López-aróstegui was emergency (with the bad fortune of injuring anything else to arrive).
Darío Brizuela, Carlos Alocén, Sergi Martínez, Jaime Fernández, Alberto Díaz, Tyson Pérez …
E, even, younger, but almost present, two newly drafted names, that the coming course will play in the NBA: Usman Garuba and Santi Aldama.
Next summer, at the Eurobasket (Spain disputes the first phase in Cologne), it can be the first time together of a couple who amazed in lower categories.
“You have to think about the future, in everything we have learned and in all young people who come sticking strong from the quarry, we still have a lot of war to give,” Willy challenged, maybe the most positive note in the personal that these games leave
.
In spite of the penultimate in the rotation, he achieved, with humility, to get strong until they end up moving to the gas.
And amazing the NBA.
“I do not think it’s a vertigo what comes ahead, it’s illusion, I want to prove that we have been ready and we have learned all those teachings well,” he said behind his 10 points, 10 rebounds, three plugs …
“We are prepared, we have been working for years under my personal supervision in lower categories and on selection B or the windows. The process takes time running, with clear ideas on how to follow it,” said Scariolo, who warned: “It will be necessary to understand the
New role, the new way to compete with the team, to play. And it is a challenge for all. For those who will continue, for those who will enter, for us … ”
