Silver Base + National = Golden Gates

Suggestive title for our article today. The LEB Plata is a very interesting competition with a lot of equality between the teams, but it is lost between two different worlds: the amateur and the professional. Perhaps its conditions are not the best, but it is an ideal place for many players to have space and minutes to evolve.

The rule that requires having two quotas at all times on the track makes most teams seek to have a pair of national guards, which helps to be an important pool of players. I am thinking of some recent statements by Natxo Lezkano, who in his club’s podcast (Unicaja Banco Oviedo) commented that we must forget the defined positions of players in modern basketball in response to the question of his preference for playing preferably with two bases time on the field, something that we see more and more in all teams and categories.

Then, the two conditions of the article title are met: to be a national base (or to be able to do so in that position) and to stand out in the LEB Plata.

Many players who meet these conditions may be at the gates of the next LEB Oro. Whether they achieve it depends on many factors: that their representation agency moves well, that their characteristics attract the attention of their future coach, being at the right time , have the role that the sports director on duty is looking for… A complex and complicated world to decipher to make a pool of candidates and hit the target.

Next, we are going to expose a list of names of national bases that have caught our attention, starting with the group of bases that is at a huge level.

Dídac Cuevas (Tizona University of Burgos). Essential for your coach. After gaining a foothold in Gold with Melilla, Cuevas went down a step last season to play close to home with the Barça subsidiary. This course was attracted by the Tizona project, which seeks to recover the category. Very dynamic base, lethal in transition, dangerous from the triple and with command of the Q&A. It is at a moment of optimal maturity.

Gerard Blat (Bueno Arenas Albacete Basket). He has returned to Spain after a season in Iceland standing out. It is a combo base with an ability for one on one and overflow out of the ordinary. He has improved in the direction of the game and the control of the tempo of the game, so he is a player who can play perfectly in Gold, as he already did, and with a role beyond a match unblocker.

Dani Manchón (Clínica Ponferrada CDP). Another that is in a moment of optimum maturity. Despite the fact that he shares a lot of playing time with the other point guard, Jorge Martínez, Manchón can play ‘one’ perfectly with his good ball handling, excellent shot after bounce and high defensive capacity. A very interesting quota.

Victor Aguilar (FC Cartagena CB). We already highlighted him last year and this year he continues to attract attention in the ranks of Cartagena. With a low dribble and excellent ball control, very comfortable in transition, he continues to confirm his progression on the outside shot and it’s time for him to get a chance.

Alberto Cabrera (Teknei Bizkaia Zornotza). The recent MVP of the LEB Plata Cup opted to stay one more year in Zornotza and he was absolutely right. We are talking about an imaginative point guard with special qualities for the game, capable of breaking dynamics, very dangerous from the triple and who has progressed in such important aspects as control of the match. His cup performance makes it clear that he should be a man to value next summer for the Gold teams.

We now turn to another profile of totally different bases. We are talking about U22 point guards who should be given a chance, but who would need playing time while they mature and live with that key factor in Gold: inexperience. It should be remembered, as we recently published, that LEB Plata is a league where young players abound.

Guillem Ferrando (Valencia BC B). He has already had a presence in the ACB team. The Spanish international is the prototype of the assistant director base that was seen so much before in classic basketball. with a high I.Q.the maturity in his shot will set his limit, which is already very high right now.

Toni Naspler (Zentro Basket Madrid). With the Manresa player, on loan at Zentro, it’s hard for me to be impartial. Naspler has stood out from a very young age and could perfectly have fallen by the wayside, but at the present time he is a point guard with an ideal plant and size, with an unusual ability to assist and the ability to break his rivals, being an octopus back with his long arms. He is still very young and has to polish defects, such as his outside shot or losses, but an improvement in this sense is clearly seen in his stay at the Madrid club.

Rafael Garcia (Herbalife Gran Canaria). A fighter who has already managed to be MVP of the day. The man from Granada is a very mature player for his age, having to see the less friendly face of this sport and continuing on his way instead of giving up. He left his house very young to debut in the EBA with Mieres, in a basketball school project that was in Asturias. Later he ended up at the Obradoiro, but two knee injuries stopped his projection. However, the ACB team did not hesitate and last season left him a hole in his squad, where he did it with dignity. Base with a good physique, he plays for his teammates and is very vertical. Despite the fact that another injury has deprived him of playing for months, in his return with the yellow subsidiary he has once again shown all the basketball he has.

Pablo Marin (CB Moron). He has already made his ACB debut with Real Betis. Eloy Ramírez’s personal commitment to Morón, he has found the ideal environment with the dismissed coach to grow in his game after a 20/21 adaptation in Benicarló. With excellent physique, he is very vertical and deadly in the open field. He called to play at higher levels.

Jorge Mejías (Bueno Arenas Albacete Basket). Another young base that has surprised since last season. Trained in the Real Madrid youth academy, where he was a shadow leader, he spent a year in American university basketball and last season he ended up in Albacete, where he was one of the revelation players despite his youth. This course repeats in the same project, which aspires to promotion, but already as a starter. Base with a lot of rhythm, good command of the Q&A, without fear of 1×1 and with an innate ability to rebound. A player that when he has a consistent outside shot we will hear about him without a doubt.

Another type of national bases that we have in LEB Plata are those who already had their place in Gold and who have stepped down to join powerful winning projects. We talk about Agusti Sanswhich is having an excellent season in Grupo Alega Cantabria CBT, showing that the Silver is too small for them, or the duo of Hereda Club Ourense Basketball guards that make up Javi Marin (in his role as captain of the ship delivering game) and Albert Martin (recently incorporated and that has arrived with one more speed since Gold).

Those who have already had an experience in Gold, but who returned to Silver in search of more minutes or due to other circumstances, are also qualified to play higher. Bernie Garcia (Reina Yogur Clavijo CB) played two years ago in Gold (Peñas and Cáceres), but did not find continuity in the category. As well Dani de la Rua He went through Oro, from where his Real Canoe NC descended, in which he remains and with which he demonstrates every day that he is a player who competes at the same level in any of the LEB.

Although the season at El Ventero CBV has not been good in terms of results, Pol Bassas He acts as a guide and engine of the team with his high capacity to assist and good decision making. I don’t want to forget two point guards who played very young in Gold and are now in winning projects and are going through a great moment: Lucas Antunez He did not play a leading role in Palencia, he grew up in Navarra and has found his place in Sant Antoni Ibiza Feeling, where he is the point guard, very active, with good play without the ball and very dangerous from outside; and what about the season of Alvaro Sanz at Decolor FG La Roda, where he is being lethal in the open field and in one on one, only the outside shot being able to generate some doubt in a point guard who has shown his ability.

In the group “Ayoze Alonso profile” we find those point guards who mature in the FEB Leagues in their career and little by little they climb steps according to their level. A varied group in which we can mention Javi Balastegui, starting base of ENERparking Basket Navarra and on an upward trajectory; to Raymond Carrasco, a young 23-year-old point guard with a privileged head for watching basketball and making others play, growing up at CB Cornellà alongside a demanding coach like Mateo Rubio; to Luis Garcia, which sounds in Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler with good physique and ability to pass; to Miguel Martinez (Safir Fruits Alginet), which on its return to Plata has shown an excellent level and significant leadership; already Xavi Hernandez (My Architect CB Benicarló), who seems to have always had the function of being a point guard “revolutionizes games”, but who this season alongside Adrià Alonso is showing his best version and his ability to lead without losing the freshness that he always offers in attack.

But there are many more national bases like Carlos Hidalgowhose progress has been cut short by injuries at Aquimisa Carbajosa Empresarial; louis ferrando, which has gone from less to more in Tizona; and the always active Jorge Martinez (COP). Also younger projection like Isma Corraliza (The Wheel), Alexander Ortega (Valencia B), Alberto Moreno (Grand B), the electric David Orrit (Enrique Soler), Mark Garcia (Zamora falls in love), Joseph Peris (Carbajosa), Michael of Paul (peg) and Lucas Munoz (CB Marbella), as well as quality veterans who dominate the league with their experience as Charles March (Gaudí CB Mollet spare parts), Pitu Jimenez (Hestia Menorca), Adrian Fuentes (Marbella) and a Miki Ortega that stands out as always, although it is very integrated, even in a labor way, in Damex UDEA Algeciras.

In short, we return to the title. Remember these names, because many of them we will see in the short term on the top step.