The urgency of starting the engine again

The first two defeats followed by the season, in Fuenlabrada and Burgos, were also the most painful for the Betis Basketball. Of those that force a deep reflection. Two severe corrective ones that put the team on their site, with their naked defects, right in the campaign’s equator. When there is still, fortunately, to take the scalpel and open as far as necessary. In Fernando Martín, Betis realized that, at least at home, there is a step below the first three classified. And in him Coliseum Burgos, in The Spanish Cuphe understood that he has nothing to do before rivals of his same length if they present heavier arguments on the boards and, above all, they are used more intensity in each palm of the court.

Benite Vitor He emphasized this week in the lack of energy of the team against the Monbús Obradoiro and perhaps that is the main reproach that the group should do. Thus in Fuenlabrada as in Burgos, the untemplated start of the team, warm and even mortgage, cost him very expensive. Very expensive. Without legs, no one is earned. Because the break in the Fernando Martín He took a rcha of 16 points that were 21 at the Coliseum. The symptom picture was repeated in two twin games that ended Betis Basketball in the canvas after redoubled efforts in the second part in search of paths and impossible traced.

At a key moment of the season, with much at stake and just when his nursing began to be emptied, andThe Verdiblanco team engine has stopped and has to start it again Because the second round already begins, this Friday in San Pablo against the HLA Alicante. After the Batacazo in Burgos, this week there have been meetings internally at the club to analyze the situation after the first round and see what to improve to get out of this pothole of results. Obviously, defeats such as the recently conceded could be repeated, could force other scenarios to consider.

At the moment, calm and confidence that Betis Basketball will react. There is a will to be so and amendment purpose. It would also be that the team mentally removing the pressure of being first. Because that privilege already seems exclusive issue of San Pablo Burgoswhich is intractable and has conquered the Spanish Cup, the Movistar Students and the Flex Fuenlabrada. With twelve victories, Betis is located four of the leader and three of his persecutors. A distance considerable enough to lower the bar of the objectives but maintaining the demand for ascent. That will have to be, to get, through the longest path: that of the play off.

Recover defense

There is a world until then. Four months of competition in which many things can still happen. Meanwhile, well I would do the Betis Basketball in putting the short lights and focusing solely and exclusively on the following challenge. And enjoy it. Because the team has not fun in the last two games. Quite, He has played badly, he has suffered and has been invaded by anxiety and stress. When that happens, the possibilities of defeat grow. The mind collapses and dolls, so many times Salvadoras, grab. And nothing flows. Therefore, Betis Basketball, which recovers Álex Suárez, must return to the origin of everything. At the root of his basketball, which was often not brilliant but almost always, solid and consistent In defense. The Fuenlabrada endorsed him 90 points with 40% in the triple and the Obradoiro, 86 with 14 perimeter successes and 56%. And before those two, Cartagena had already endorsed 95 although that game won.

Several lessons have taken Betis of these cornadas. The main one, which If it does not defend it can be a vulgar team like so many others in the category. He must assume a reality that has always been there and that many have not wanted to see … or have done it sideways: the team is very good, but not so much. You should not play the exchange of blows or take too many defensive licenses. It should be unnegotiable to play intensely, because that will also allow you to run and reduce the number of positional attacks, in which there is also margin of improvement. It has to dust off the pick & roll of the bases with the pivots and recover those little societies between the little ones and the big ones that have given them so good dividends this season.

Living exclusively of triple, without further records, does not seem the best plan for a template so well endowed technically. In this sense, it is essential to recover the best version of Cvetkovic and Debisschopcapital pieces of the best Betis Basketball that has been seen this campaign. And integrate into the rotation to TENDE While continuing in Seville now that he has left Domenechwho was terminated this week before joining the Odilo Cartagena project. He never gave the feeling that Catalan left over, quite the opposite, but he is no longer and with his departure, plus those of Pablo Marín and Hansel Atancespace opens in the template for future additions. Because, yes, the team has a quality leap inside, but also in the perimeter, where there are plenty of scorers but not vertical and physical players who can lend a hand in a couple of positions.

A reinforced Lucentum

Tonight’s game brings them. Careful. Betis Basketball would do well to not trust Lucentum’s hair, which is in the descent zone with four victories but has won four of the last seven games. He has changed coach (Rubén Perelló occupied the site of Antonio Pérez Cainzos) and has reinforced his squad with the incorporations of Sergio Llorente, Aris Ceccardi, Mandaugas Kacinas and Ignacio Rosa. They are complementary pieces because the vertebral structure preserves it. Kevin Larsen, one of the best pivots of the first Feb, is his masterpiece, and with him there are very physical players like Mwema, Bidias or Bressanbut also interesting exteriors such as Adrià Rodríguez or Jordan King.

The potential of his attack is discreet (74 average points), so he prefers a low rhythm match and playing to defend taking advantage of the chassis of many of his players. Although Betis basketball may be interested otherwise, today the priority is that Return for his fueros and that is that competitive team that can play with the tuxedo but who does not care to stain mud either. They defend how they know how to do it and all the doubts that now exist about the project and its pillars will disappear. The engine is started again because, to all this, the great objective of the season is still there, on the horizon.