“I see Unicaja with a trademark, it is a staff from Ibon”

Pepe Pozas (Málaga, 1992) faces his second season within the Actual Betisrival of Unicaja this Sunday. The purpose guard from Malaga faces his ninth yr within the basketball elite, forsaking ghosts of accidents and utterly tailored to Seville, the place he ended up after seven seasons within the workshop Pozas visits, with a Betis affected by ex-typewriters, a pitch the place he has spent a lot of his life working, the Carpen.

-One month of competitors, how are you feeling and what do you anticipate from the season?

-Personally, I am actually wanting ahead to it, final yr it was difficult because of the harm, altering locations after so lengthy. We modified coaches, too, through the season, so it was very tough. The reality is that I actually needed to return this yr to really feel good, I’ve put in lots of hours of coaching there in Los Guindos and Carpena to really feel higher and, personally, I wish to contribute slightly extra. On a collective degree, there are some video games which might be costing us, we nonetheless should adapt, it’s true that we have now fairly just a few issues through the week with harm points, individuals who don’t practice, however let’s have a look at if we’re in a position to be sure that we’re all nicely and might get again to our routines.

-From a distance, what sensations does this renewed Unicaja transmit to you?

-There was work, Juanma has labored so much this summer time. I feel they’ve achieved a reworking, clearly when Juanma arrived there have been many gamers from the earlier sports activities director, from earlier coaches. This yr each he and Ibon have had the chance to search for the profiles they needed or thought can be good for the staff. Unicaja has a really balanced squad, very lengthy and I see them as an indication of identification. It’s a staff from Ibon with a excessive rhythm, bodily, that likes to defend and run, I see them fairly nicely.

-Alberto Díaz has been one of many names of the summer time, you debuted Unicaja the identical yr, how do you keep in mind it?

-That yr we had been each on the Rincón Clinics, I begin the season going up with Chus Mateo. Then Luis Casimiro arrives, at that second he brings us each as much as practice with the primary staff and he opts for Alberto, who debuts that yr, additionally taking part in unbelievable. The sport in Badalona, ​​taking part in three 4 video games at such a tough time and with a lot nervousness inside the membership, as a result of in addition they needed to keep ninth place to proceed taking part in within the Euroleague. It was a second that I lived with affection too. It’s true that, maybe, he might suppose that he was taking my place and that was it. In accordance with everybody, I used to be the veteran of the LEB staff and had already debuted within the first staff, however Alberto was greater than prepared for that place and look how he got here out. Very pleased, I’m a buddy of his brother, of the household and his, so I can’t be unhappy as a result of I see so many pleased folks. He deserved it, he’s from the home.

-What are the emotions you’re having with Luis Casimiro this season?

-With Luis higher than final yr. Final season he demanded extra of me on a bodily degree than, maybe, I might contribute. This yr we’re on the identical web page, I just like the fashion of basketball that he does and we’re going little by little. All of us have to enhance all through the season to get the most effective out of one another.

-With the harm, Nzonsa has not had any luck firstly of the season, how is your adaptation going?

-Yannick spends extra hours than the pavilion screens. I see him nicely and calm, ultimately they’re issues that he can’t deal with, coaching and having bodily issues. We look ahead to him, as a result of I feel he’ll assist us so much when he arrives and, logically, that he’ll go away these issues behind in order that he can proceed to enhance.

-Is it all the time particular so that you can return to Carpena?

-In the long run it is like yearly, whenever you stroll by means of that door or undergo the parking zone, it is a spot I have been to all my life as a season ticket holder and I made my debut there. I really feel at house, so going again there with my entire household within the stands, which for me is a uncommon chook taking part in away from Malaga, as a result of it’s totally good.