Colón achieved a great victory against Cordón that allows him to obtain the third consecutive victory in the tournament. After finishing the game, Basketball Total spoke with coach Gustavo Reig.
On the great victory of Columbus, Gustavo Reig gave his first sensations “It is a very important victory. Beyond that it is our third in a row that without a doubt it is good to start in this way, we beat a great rival who was undefeated and who armed himself to fight for promotion, for which I am very happy for the victory ”.
An atypical match that started on Monday and ended on Tuesday. On whether the planning changed anything, Reig commented “The idea was the same beyond that was played on different days. Yesterday they started with low percentages of three points but today when they resumed, especially in the second quarter, we hit several triples. In any case, I asked the players to keep calm, to play calmly and with the same head that we came to play the match because I was sure we were going to do well. In fact, beyond that they entered, the first time we went upstairs and the planning”.
The zone defense paid off for Colón. Regarding the defensive keys, the coach said: “Our game plan was to leave them the outside shot beyond that at various times they holed, for example with the entry of Fernando Ferreira who gave us four triples. Those things are part of the game and luckily we stuck with our idea. When we closed with Damian Tintorelli it was clear that we were going to leave spaces and obviously being in the zone, when the rival errs, it allows you to run the court where we have players like Martin Mayora and Gianfranco Espíndola who play very well on the open court ”.
The five starters finished with more than 10 units. Regarding the importance of various scoring routes, he commented: “It’s our idea and I talk about it a lot with the guys. We cannot depend only on one player in El Metro because they mark him and it is very difficult to generate. If several players score more than 10 points, we will be at 60/70 points and from there we will be able to carry the games in a good way ”.
Colón has complicated games in the next dates: “The reality is that we have a complicated fixture. Today we had Cordón, now Larre Borges is coming, then August 25 and Lagomar, which in principle are the teams that had been assembled to be up. We have to go game by game, today we were able to win and now we have to go with Larre in search of another point ”.
On how he analyzes the level of the championship in the first dates, Reig referred: “The level of this championship is very similar to last year at CEFUBB. Very close matches, even, disputed and at times the defense proposing a lot of area. I think there is no team that has stood out, although there are teams that have won several games, none have clearly achieved them, so it is very even without a clear candidate so far.
Finally, the coach commented on the team’s goal in the tournament: “Our main objective is to get into the top eight and from there to start playing the playoffs and see if we can start winning to continue in the tournament. I think we have a good team and that we can get involved in the fight. We know that we are not candidates and when you are in that position, you can play with greater ease than other teams do not have it and that way we can have an advantage ”.