2023-08-18 12:47:38
Unicaja officially starts the preseason this Friday with an obvious “human resources” problem to correctly prepare a 2023/2024 campaign that in less than a month will have the first official exam for the greens with the Endesa Super Cup in Murcia.
Ibon Navarro cannot count on the internationals Kendrick Perry, Alberto Díaz and Melvin Ejim and neither on the pivots Augusto Lima, Yankuba Sima and David Kravish, all three injured.
In other words, Unicaja begins the preseason without point guards and without pivots. A problem that Ibon Navarro himself spoke about this Friday at the start of training: “We are going to train without bases and without pivots. I have a lot of help with the youngsters from the quarry, but none of the “5” can play,” he said. the compositor coach
no bases again
Facing the preseason without bases is not a novelty. 12 months ago now, neither Alberto nor Perry worked with their teammates since they were both preparing for the Eurobasket with their respective teams, just as they do now for the World Cup.
What has become a serious problem is that of the pivots. The three “centers” of the team are injured and will not work with their teammates in these first weeks of the preseason. The Augusto Lima thing is nothing new because it is already known that until the end of this 2023 he will not return to the slopes. Yankuba Sima was injured while training on his own a couple of weeks ago and the latest casualty is that of David Kravish, who has returned from vacation without fully recovering from the heel injury he suffered during the last playoff for the title . We will have to wait for his evolution, but at the moment it is low for group work.
The club continues to comb the market in search of a temporary worker for the “5” position without ruling out that there will have to be two reinforcements depending on how Kravish’s problems evolve.
Ibon’s options
Ibon counts for that position of center with Dylan Osetkowski and with the “patch” of Will Thomas, who could also help in the pivot position, but with the loss of Melvin Ejim he is the only pure power forward on the team, who will have the occasional help of Jonathan Barreiro thanks to his versatility to play inside and outside.
It is clear that everything that had been carried out with continuous planning compared to the previous season has now been blown up with three injuries, all in the same area of the field, which together with the absences of the internationals leave the team in a precarious situation to start the pre-season work.
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