From its birth as a professional club to this first crisis of results, which has already had consequences, everything is happening too quickly in the Insolac Box 87which runs the risk of being carried away by the anxiety of bad results and that desire, understood as a calibrated and obligatory sense of responsibility, to correspond with positive news in the form of victories to a fan that placed its unconditional trust in a project created from scratch and launched against the clock, with all the risks that this entailed.
A real possibility in cases like this was that the victory was resisted because the team did not gel. And this is what has happened to Caja 87, which has lost six of the seven games played and closes the table with only one victory, although tied with the penultimate one. West Group of the Second FEBwhich consists of 14 teams and 26 days of the regular phase: the last two are directly relegated and both the eleventh and twelfth classified teams face their counterparts from the Eastern Conference to decide the other two relegation places. Being the third category in hierarchical order of Spanish basketball, you see that the former LEB Plata is not exactly jauja. Instead of standing still without moving a stick in the face of the succession of bad results in a complex calendar, the club has decided to act.
After the defeat in Cordova This past weekend (77-66), something definitively broke in the project, which was already emitting disturbing and worrying signals. The squad presents major limitations, especially in the interior game, and after three signings plus two contract terminations, the next move announced by the green-and-red club has been the dismissal of the coach, Rafa Gomáriza 50-year-old native of Córdoba whom the Caja 87 structure trusted in mid-July, when the project was starting. He has lasted four months in office, since his signing was confirmed on July 17 and on November 17 his stage officially ended, with the aforementioned defeat in the caliphal city, although it was not until this Tuesday that he was given rank official to this divorce that was seen coming.
In this period, Gomáriz has not only served as coach, but also as sports director, as the Sevillian entity confirms in its press release when thanking him for “the hard work in preparing the squad to compete in Second FEB.” In the words of the president, Gonzalo CrespoCaja 87 “appreciates Rafa’s effort and commitment” because “starting the club in such a short time has only been possible thanks to people like him and his talent.” For his part, the vice president, Sergio Crespoindicated that “Rafa has shown his love for the red and green team with an enormous amount of work in a short time” recognizing that, “without him, we would not have been able to launch the club.”
The implacable law of results has had its way with Gomáriz, whom Insolac Caja 87 has just replaced with Eloy Ramírez from Utrera (his hiring is now official), who despite his youth (37 years) already has a long career in FEB leagues, especially in Morón, and this season he has served as assistant coach in the Bus Obradoirofrom Primera FEB, after leaving last season for AEK Atenas as a member of Joan Plaza’s technical staff. Those responsible for Insolac Caja 87 have also contacted, in their logical combing of the trainer market, with another Sevillian, Javi Carrascowho was an assistant coach for many years at Betis Baloncesto and of whom he was head coach at the beginning of last season. Finally, there has been no understanding between the parties for the paths of the green-red club and the Seville coach, a free agent after the end of his time at Romanian club Craiova, to converge.
Scoring and inside game problems
Eloy Ramírez, already separated from Obradoiro, is the second bet in his history for the Caja 87 bench, which faces two key weeks of the season. With the break due to the FIBA window, the team does not play again until Sunday, December 1, when it will receive in San Pablo to Zornotza (12:30 p.m.), and by then he will not only have a new tenant on the bench but also with renewed pieces in the squad. After the cuts of Moyer and Mollgaard, already terminated, and the signings of Miguel Serrano, Josep Franch and Kevin Maurachanges are expected in the inside game, where there are two players, Mukendi and Zhang, with very discreet performance. On the boards, only Ken Baoko and Adrián Latorre, the best of all, are offering an acceptable level within the irregularity that characterizes the team. The squad presents an unbalanced structure with up to four point guards in its ranks and there are missing points, both in the outside battery and in the centers.
In these seven days, in which he only won Melilla Basketball (94-96, after extra time) and has not yet opened the winnings table in San Pablo, where it has played three games, the green-red team averages 69 points for, 76 against, 43% in shots from two, 32 % in triples, 65% in free throws, 34 rebounds, 12 assists and 15 turnovers. Numbers that condemn him to the pit of the table, where no one wants to be. And even less a project like this one, which was born driven by an enormous hope and now needs to be very surgical in its decisions. The mistakes of the summer will have to be corrected successfully, without forgetting that there is no specific sports director in the structure and under the coordinates of a modest budget. Now that we know where the team is and a diagnosis has been issued (this is what the “mutual agreement” separation of Gomáriz entails), it is time to put in place the means to enhance it and seek permanence. There are 19 days left, which may seem like a lot but they are not that many either.
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