On Tuesday, Fontajau will receive the Básquet Girona squad, which returns to training in the week of the return of the ACB. After two weeks in which all the limelight has been for the Copa del Rey and for the national teams, the League is preparing to resume a competition in which Aíto García Reneses’ men had made an impact on the table in the last months Because since 2023 started with the wonderful triumph over Joventut, the team has erased any possibility of doubt win after win. And, at the same time, it has taken a cushion with respect to the area of permanence.
In training on Tuesday morning, Aíto will have everyone available, except for Argentine internationals Patricio Garino and Maxi Fjellerup, who will arrive in the afternoon after the upset of being left out of the World Cup. Argentina, which had not lost a game since 1982 and was leading the Dominican Republic by 7 in the third quarter, fell 75-79. The rest of the players who have traveled with their national team these days have already arrived in Girona: the Croatian Roko Prkacin, the Czech Ondrej Hanzlík, the Serbian Dušan Miletic, the Cameroonian Jeremiah Hill and the Spanish Èric Vila and Jaume Sorolla.
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The big question mark for the visit to Unicaja, recent Copa del Rey champion (Saturday at 6pm), will be the presence of Marc Gasol. During this stoppage, the pivot of Sant Boi has continued with his recovery work, but at this time no one can guarantee that he will be able to participate in the duel of the weekend. Gasol was out in the defeat at the Breogán track and in the victory with the Obradoiro. Pierre Oriola, who entered the call-up for the last match, but did not participate, is no longer at the club after signing for AEK Athens.
But let’s go back to the streak of Aíto’s team, twelfth in the standings with a record of 8-12. The jump starred by the dressing room coinciding with the entrance of the new year cannot be questioned. During the month of January, he experienced his best dynamic of the season, thanks to the four consecutive victories that took him out of the danger zone: the aforementioned with Joventut (79-66), in Fuenlabrada (75-83 ), with Bilbao Basket also in Fontajau (84-59) and Granada (78-92). All of this was possible due to the recovery in the game of the entire squad, which has taken an important step forward in terms of the individual field which has had an impact on the collective. The victories also have a common denominator: the stellar performance of American Kameron Taylor, who is the fifth leading scorer in the ACB League with an average of 14.6 points per game. Absolute success, his signing.
Málaga awaits them
The four out of four, in reality, was a five out of six, because before the end of the year Básquet Girona lost at Manresa, even though they had previously won at Zaragoza. After the plenary, the team lost against Barça (73-84) and Breogán (92-70), but reacted perfectly by defeating Obradoiro in the last duel at the Girona pavilion (93-76). Now they are reliable, Aíto’s.
On Saturday, however, he will have to suffer. Unicaja arrives at the meeting full of energy and with a new title in its showcases, after beating Barça, Madrid and Lenovo Tenerife. Who knows if that will distract them.
BGMindsetProgram Taylor and Figueras visit the Eiximenis school
In the framework of BGMindsetPrograma social initiative with the support of caixabank which combines the promotion of the English language and the practice of sport in educational centers, the players of the Basketball Girona, Kameron Taylor i Paul Figuerashave visited the school eximeni of Girona. In the first part of the visit, the students asked questions in English to the protagonists, who then exchanged baskets with the boys and girls.