Mumbrú: “We would be bad if we started with anxiety”

Bilbao Basket enters a new phase of the season, as they have left behind four great rivals. Joventut, Zaragoza, Tenerife and Barcelona seem out of reach at this moment, in which he tries to put pieces together and for the orchestra to sound in tune. Now visit Murcia and then have in Mirbilla the visit of Fuenlabrada and Burgos. There you have to start winning anyway. It is not that there is nervousness, because this team, the club and the environment already know that they are destined to go through trouble, although they trust that not as many as last season, but so much defeat is not a good travel companion.

“We are training well. We have played four games, but we have really been in competition for two weeks. We would go wrong if we already started with anxiety and nervousness because we have almost eight months of the season left. Andorra and we are the only ones who have not added victories, that is clear, and It can be due to many factors: because you are not doing well, because of the calendar € We will try to improve as a team, do it better and better, minimize the mistakes we make and play basketball well “, explains Mumbrú, who is measured against Sito Alonso , a technician you know well. In Murcia they have won both times after promotion, last year in extra time. The challenge now is enormous: to face one of the hottest courts in the ACB with an audience of 80 percent and a team with enormous aggressiveness.

Withey will be able to play. He caused a loss against Barça due to a broken nose, but a mask has been developed that will allow him to have minutes . His return is essential to close the area, especially against people as aggressive as Lima. “We have two important players in the inner game, Withey and Delgado,” says Mumbrú, “and if we drop one we notice it in the rotations, when we need a good reference inside to give Ángel rest. Let’s see if we can get it. that Jeff is there or, otherwise, we will have to do as against Barça, pull those of us who are “.

The Barcelona coach is aware that we must win as soon as possible to trust what they are doing: “We would like to get into victories, but Murcia is a difficult court. They are playing well, they won in Valencia playing a very serious game and after going behind with important disadvantages and the last match They had it totally under control against Unicaja and it escaped them at the last minute because the rival was very successful in desperate shots. They have a very competitive team. ” An ACB star like Frankamp has left but he has a spectacular arsenal on the outside, like Taylor, McFadden, Davis, Czerapowicz, and a Rojas who is always with the knife between his teeth. The game is balanced on the inside with Lima, Cate, Radovic and Webb. “You have to try to be tough on them both inside and out”, sums up the Surne coach.

It will be a special day for Luz, who had a good time in the Palace but also the bitterness of an injury and the final cut in February, to go to the Lithuanian Nevezis. “We have to know how to differentiate when the team is doing it wrong, when things are not clear to us or when the other team is better than you. The other day they were better than us and little more needs to be said “, recognizes Mumbrú in reference to Barça . Exterior penetrations continue to do damage. “That has happened to us more against Barça, when our intimidator has not been there and we receive many baskets from the tray. I hope that when Jeff is there that will not happen so much. It is clear that we have to be better in that aspect, but also in others such as in the fluidity in attack, because when we are not, it generates anxiety in the defense and leads us to want to steal the ball instead of being in good position. Let’s see if little by little we will improve it. ” The team continues with its pilgrimage through Biscayan tracks; Today he had to exercise at La Casilla, which is no longer a vaccination center to regain its old habits.