“Basketball was played well and we felt comfortable with the system”

Hernán Laginestra was the champion coach with Biguá, after the coronation the Argentine talked about how he lived this special championship with the obtaining of the title for the club, after many years.

On whether this end was imagined, the DT said: “I think it was a great collective work, the leaders who trusted Pablo Ibón’s word, who was the one who brought me in, the players did a barbarous job, all united, all for the same goal. I think we were a good team throughout the tournament, and I also think this is deserved. ”

“You have to know how to win, you have to work to win, and we had the potential, we had to work on it, build it, play as a team, we achieved it. The well-defined roles, the players performing and everyone behind the goal. The truth is that a championship is not celebrated every year and you have to tell the truth, this is the work of the whole club and all those who made this outcome possible ” added the Argentine coach.

On the aspects that Biguá de Laginestra had to be champion, he commented: “The team was very well put together, the roles defined, I think basketball was played well and I think we also feel comfortable with the system. We all push to the same side, we all pull to the same side, there came a time when we began to understand each other more and more, and when that happens in the teams, they give the extra. We were able to crown it and I repeat, this is everyone’s job ”

In reference to whether this championship was one of the best moments of his career, because of the atypical nature and being away from his family at this time of a pandemic, he commented: “Yes, because coming here, I am a first-time player in the League, we achieved this immense goal, I think the club did not achieve it 10 years ago or more. In short, I am very happy for the people who raised the money to get to this, for the players, the coaching staff, for Pablo Ibón who was the one who put this together. We are very happy”.

He still has a contract for the Uruguayan League 2021/22 and the bar was high, he declared: “No, the contract is, it is (laughs), we want to be champion, nothing more.”