The discouraging start to the league by Insolac Caja 87, with full defeats in the first four days of Second FEB, has already caused the first movements in the squad led by Rafa Gomáriz. If last week Miguel Serrano was signed after being separated from Naturavia Morón, of Primera FEB, this time progress has been made in the hiring of Josep Franch, 1.90 meters tall and 33 years old, an experienced and well-known point guard in the capital Seville since he played for Betis Baloncesto in two stages. In the 2013-2014 season he did so while the club was still Cajasol, with Aíto at the helm, and in 2017-2018 he returned for a project that began to be designed for the LEB Oro and that finally went to ACB after recovering the then Betis. Energy Plus category in offices. Trained in the Joventut youth academy, Franch had returned home precisely this summer by joining the ranks of CB Prat, also in the Second FEB as Caja 87, a club traditionally linked to the green and black. And he had started the season well, with 8.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists in the first four games. In the last one he scored 17 points. After leaving Betis Energía Plus in 2017, Franch played for Melilla Baloncesto, Basket Club Gries Oberhoffen (France), Basquet Girona, Movistar Estudiantes and TAU Catelló before returning home. With a contract in force with the Catalan club, the signing of Franch is not easy, although Caja 87 were optimistic about the possibility of completing the negotiations this Friday with the idea that the player, with whom there is already an agreement, could join the expedition that will head to Melilla on Saturday (fifth in the table with three wins and one loss) to play on Sunday in the Autonomous City. With the arrival of Franch, or failing that another point guard, Insolac would have to free up some players (they already have twelve) and all indications are that Luke Moyer, an American with an Italian passport, would be the terminated player, since he has only He has participated in two of the four matches played to date and was signed to play a leading role that he has not held. In fact, the Sevillian Álvaro Herrera is averaging more minutes (21) in the point guard position and Rafa Santos, the third asset for that position, as many as the North American player (16). Anyone who has followed Insolac’s matches will have realized that they not only limp in one’s position but also present other avenues of water because there are players like Mollgaard, Mukendi or Zhiyao whose performances are far from what was expected. It must be remembered that, due to the circumstances, those of a club that was born from scratch and launched in record time, Caja 87 arrived late, very late to the market. And this has conditioned everything. His managers, led by the Crespo brothers, knew that the squad would surely have to be touched sooner rather than later. And since the problems have come to light very early, the club, far from sitting idly by, has set to work to try to repair those cracks so that Rafa Gomáriz has the best arguments on the squad. possible according to the economy and the possibilities of the entity. The squad will undergo more changes because the team needs wins. And to achieve them he must necessarily increase his offensive capacity, one of his Achilles heels, since he averages just 66.5 points in favor. New center Bottom with full defeats in the five rounds played, Naturavia Morón knew that this scenario could occur in its debut in the First FEB and, in some way, they were in the club prepared and psyched for it. They set up the project with the lowest budget in the category by far, doing a lot of tricks to try to put together a competitive squad that so far has not been able to inaugurate the victory box. The schedule has not helped either, since they have faced several leading teams, such as Tizona Burgos, who last Sunday closed the game from the first quarter with a devastating 9-24. Despite the bad start to the season, Naturavia is not giving up. They are aware that they would have to suffer a lot, as they are already doing, but they want to look at the glass half full. And do not get carried away by pessimism, which leads nowhere good. The team is alive and the club is working to provide José Antonio Santaella’s team with more competitive resources for the Primera FEB. Morón already reinforced the point guard position with the signing of Fabio Santana and last week Miguel Serrano left. The departure of the Canary Islands interior freed up a chip in the Aruncitana squad that has been covered with the hiring of Pape Badji, an international four-five for Senegal of 2.06 meters and proven experience in several European leagues. This African post player is 32 years old and was barely able to compete last season. He played with Belgian team Okapi Aalstar averaging 11.6 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 12 games. Badji has played in the Swiss league (he has a visa from this country, in fact) and also in French and Belgian clubs. The Naturavia Morón thing will, therefore, be the first adventure in Spanish basketball for this Senegalese who with his team has played in the 2013 and 2015 Afrobasket, as well as the 2014 World Cup in Spain. A proven player who joins BJ Mack, Tamba and Duke as members of the inner battery of a Naturavia Morón that does not have victories yet but does have a leader named Lionel Kouadio. In the defeat against Tizona, the Ivorian guard took the MVP of the 5th day in Primera FEB with 22 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 30 rating credits. The Moronenses visit second-placed Ourense this Saturday.
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