From this Friday, Malaga will experience a very special and unforgettable event. Spain, USA and Slovenia to meet historical triangle and unprecedented to celebrate Centenary Tournament of the Spanish Federation Prepare for basketball and Japan, Philippines and Indonesia appointments. It will be very special for all participants, but the national coach, Sergio Scariolo.
Aries returns to ‘home’ from 2003 to 2008. the palace sports Jose Maria Martin Carpena Who lived to praise Unicaja to the top four teams in all of Europe and now comes to head the best team in the world according to the FIBA rankings. He’ll still have to wait to reunite with the “green wave”, but he’ll be attending this basketball party and there will be a lot of fans there cheering the coach’s name.
Because he won it on all Spanish circuits, but especially here. Scariolo left an insurmountable mark in Malaga. He has some on his side now, but there was a day – Jorge Garbajosa, now president of the FEB, and Carlos Jiménez, the national team’s Team Manager, were the players to play alongside the Italians in the golden triennium: Copa del Rey in Zaragoza in 2005, after beating Baskonia In 2006, it won the Endesa League and the historic Euroleague Final Four qualifiers.
Since then, he has been a cause for celebration for basketball fans in Malaga every time he comes. He did this for the last time in July 2021, in that friendly match where Spain and France faced each other in Carpena as a friendly match for the Tokyo event. Since then there have been many successes where he has raised the selection. Therefore, any fan surrenders to the coach who made history with Unicaja and is on his way to becoming a leader, even if for many it is. The best national basketball coach.
Certainly, he is now facing one of the most important challenges of his professional career: transition from the national team. Last September this team was made of a different material, without any big NBA stars in front of Nikola Jokic’s Serbia, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Greece, Luka Doncic’s Slovenia or silver-collecting Rudy Gobert’s France. Europe has already shown that it can win gold. .
fundamental problems
Now he comes to Malaga with other kinds of challenges, but also with some challenges. problems very serious: basic position. The loss of Ricky Rubio deprived Spain of its main lighthouse. The FEB had already settled the same thing with the open nationalization of Lorenzo Brown last summer. However, with the World Cup less than 20 days away and in full preparation, solutions must come from the negotiation itself.
The already untouchable Alberto Díaz. Currently aiming to be key in the event, the Unicaja man from Malaga is currently the first sword in the direction of the game. He has neither the vision nor the talent to provoke the gaps of his two predecessors, but For Scariolo he is untouchable in many other respects. John Nunez? Jaime Fernández, Sergio Llull or Alberto Abalde in ‘1?
There are many unknowns It becomes clear after such a big unforeseen event. But if anyone can do the impossible, it’s Sergio Scariolo, who touched the continental skies with Unicaja and sought the team’s third World Cup after spending it in Malaga.