“I’m going to the opposite side of the Metro”

In the Metro there are no more undefeated and this is because yesterday Larre Borges defeated Lagomar with authority. After this crucial triumph for the course of the Total Basketball championship, he went to talk with Larre’s coach, Mathías Nieto.

The first thing about Nieto was a reaction to the gambling process, which no one expected was such a big difference: Needless to say, it ended up being much more open than we thought, especially since we were having irregular moments within the games. I believe that the moments of solidity of our team are enough to be overwhelming against our rivals, the issue is the ups and downs we have. Today was a game in which we did not have them and when we do not have them, this is what we hope. Likewise obviously when you are going to face the first one, who is undefeated, even if we really want to win, there is a question of respect that we must have”.

This victory is a clear sign that Larre is aiming high and is in the process and the coach was clear about it: From the beginning we spoke with the campus with the leaders and with our people that we are in a construction plan. We knew that it was not going to be easy, when you have high quality players and with such important roles always in all the teams that play, obviously there is a time there is necessary to start sharing and that is difficult. I think that we come from less to more in that and today I think that our strength was communication within the field, both in attack and defense it seems to me that it was the main thing. Know who to play for and look for those options, defensively all the rotations we did we did well and we locked them at 29 or 30 points in each half”.

Last night one of the keys to the game was defending the man who managed to frustrate Lagomar’s most important goal routes, but Nieto went beyond yesterday’s game: I am not a coach who likes zone defense very much. I am going to the other side of the Metro but I think that by giving it certain adjustments, allowing some shots being aware that if that player turns on it is because we allow it. I think that from there we can handle that head that I tell you so as not to get into the potholes. The zonal defense when we are disorganized or we have to put a lot of replacement at the same time allows us that calm of knowing where to rotate and what each one should do. Give players less decision-making burden”.

Yesterday’s game also allowed him to take advantage of Glenn’s advantage in the low post, generating a lot of goal in the first half and many spaces in the second: With Ricardo’s advantage, it seems to me that we found a lot of spaces, that we could not capitalize on in the first games, we came from shooting very badly in the first half and today we shot well, which gave us peace of mind that the players did not have to pull more to find your rhythm. If we were able to take other options because they came out higher, I remember some games where we started with the same idea, but when shooting 2/16 as happened in some games, the teams were getting smaller and we were losing confidence. Today we found the rhythm first and that allowed us to generate other variants, which would go out to look for us higher up and be able to break and from there generate our game”.