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The wait is over. The basketball will return to the scene after a new stop due to the coronavirus pandemic and the restart of the Uruguayan League will be with the third points of the playoffs.
The series between National Y watery Y Trouville Y Urunday University They are 1-1 and on Tuesday, February 9, two of these four teams will take advantage in the keys to the best of five games.
And next Tuesday, a month and a week will have passed since that November 27, 2020, the day on which the government authorities decided to stop the course of the tournament due to the large increase in coronavirus cases in Uruguay.
Since then, uncertainty has taken hold of the environment, but Uruguayan Federation of BasketBall (FUBB), always handled alternatives and in constant conversations with the National Sports Secretariat (SND) and the clubs involved, looked for a way that the League could have its definition.
Perhaps the sporting moment of the teams is not the best today: impossibility of playing friendly matches, foreigners who went to their countries and returned a few days ago to Montevideo and training limited by the sanitary protocol that must be followed.
But the orange is biting again in the local concert and a championship that lasted longer than expected seems to be heading towards the definition.
Aguada, Nacional, Trouville and Urunday Universitario are crouched down to go on stage and start playing, under equal conditions, for a ticket to the grand final.
It will be like a restart for Uruguayan basketball, but with the seasoning of being in decisive instances at a difficult time for the entire country.
the turn
Tuesday is the big day
The playoffs of the Uruguayan Basketball League 2019-2020 will have the return of activity at the Antel Arena on Tuesday. In the early hours, from 19:15, Trouville (1) and Urunday Universitario (1) will face each other in the third match of the series. Those from Prado won the first game 86-72 and those from Pocitos the second by 99-90. The other match will start at 9:15 p.m. and will feature Nacional (1) and Aguada (1). After the tricolores stayed with the first game, the aguateros won the second after the FUBB’s ruling against the albos.
National
A review of game systems
Leonardo Zylbersztein, coach of National, talked with Ovation and he said: “In general we are well and the most important thing today is to be healthy. We don’t have a projection because we couldn’t play friendlies, but this is the same for everyone and I think we arrived in a good way and day by day we are working on the systems to improve ”.
“Regarding the team, I see it well but the fact of not playing against other teams gives us some uncertainty because we did not have a sparring to be able to evaluate where we are better or worse, but the conditions are like this and it is the same for everyone. I think we arrived in a good way and the players are at their ideal weight, “added the tricolor coach who closed saying that” we still have a few days to work on all that Aguada’s systems are and improve our offensive and defensive rules, so in that sense we will get there well. ”
watery
Making up for the lack of basketball will be the goal
Adrián Capelli manifested to Ovation: “We arrived well, but with little basketball. The foreigners are with little filming and we are trying to insert them back into the team. Hopefully by Tuesday we can arrive in the best possible way, but I insist that those of us who were here have worked hard to be in the best conditions ”.
“Of course we are uncertain because we haven’t played for so long but we worked very well during the stoppage. The objective with the foreigners was to try to get them back to the team Dwayne Davis Y Al Thornton, which we incorporated yesterday. So the idea is that they try to settle in again, waiting for Tuesday to be able to arrive in the best way, “added the Argentine.
Trouville
The pleasure of being in the decisive instances
German Fernandeztechnician Trouville, he told Ovation: “The idea is to arrive in the best possible way and for that we are working hard. We were able to have the foreigners about 10 days before. We are in these instances of a long and exhausting season, but for us it is a pleasure to be here fighting for important things but without a doubt we have uncertainties about how he will find us because we did not have friendlies ”.
“We are working hard to be in the best way on Tuesday. We are trying these days to bring the foreigners back to the team, getting physically fit to be well. We are anxious because we have been waiting for weeks to be able to play again,” added the coach. of the Pocitos red which closed saying that “luckily we were able to have the foreigners about 10 days before and also, we recovered Alex Lopez which for us is a fundamental pillar, especially in critical moments in which he brings out his personality and takes important shots, so for us having the full squad in good condition is going to be an advantage since the intention is to be able to have 10 players and to be able to rotate a lot during the games since that is going to be our approach to try to ensure that the team continues to show the way of playing that brought it to this stage “.
Urunday University
The happiness of being in semis, but wants more
Héctor Da Pra, coach of Urunday University, expressed to Ovation: “We arrived at this stage with the illusion intact. We feel inactivity for everything that is already known and that is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage because all the teams are in the same situation. We work very well as far as possible and we want to go for something historic like being able to play a final of League”.
The team technician of the Joaquin Suarez Avenue He added that “for us this is a special moment of our campaign because we have reached where nobody thought we could go but unfortunately we do not enjoy it with the joy we should because we are facing a complicated situation for all teams and especially for the whole society “.
As for sports, Da Pra He remarked that “in the first stage of the parate it was more intense and we, being a social club, had several conditions to be able to train since we could not allow members and officials to be exposed to a complicated situation, but we are happy to start this stage with many hopes and we hope to rise to the occasion to achieve something that would be unprecedented for the club. “
