The Italian Sergio Scariolo, technician of the Spanish basketball team, said that Germany, current world champion and who will face in double meeting preparatories for the next Eurobasket, “is a first -level physical test” and to which they want to “compete until the end.”
After the morning session in the Sports City of Real Madrid, Sergio Scariolo valued the team's work and left several messages about the group of the group and the final list before these two matches, on Thursday in Madrid and Saturday in Colonia.
“I am really happy. At the training level there is concentration, energy and intensity; we are also physically and technically improving,” said the coach, who considers Germany “one of the largest and most bulky teams in the world” and, therefore, “a useful test to see if we can hook ourselves to the car above.”
In the medical section, Scariolo explained that “Darío (Brizuela) evolves positively” and that Alberto Díaz had to submit today to a test “to see if he can train again.” “It is a decision of the professionals; the player has good feelings walking or bike, but another thing is to train,” he said.
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Asked about the deadlines about the call, it was clear: “We will go to Germany with more than 12. The decision could even occur tonight – I wish not – because Alberto's decline would be a very hard blow for the structure of the team.”
The Italian insisted on the background: “That the very young players begin to enter into competition and that those who have already been growing in their specific weight. We will be less competitive if Alberto is not, but there will be more minutes for young people and will begin their tour in an official competition.”
On the concentration, he admitted that it has been particularly injured: “I do not remember a concentration with so many problems on the march; I am still happy with how we train and play, within our qualities.”
Scariolo also appealed to the stands: “The fans have to be hooked for thanks to what this team has given him. When we can, we won; when not, we compete until the last shot, as in the last two championships.”
In the face of tribute to Sergio Llull planned in Madrid, he confessed that he would prefer another competitive moment, but described him as “very emotional and deserved for what he has given us for so long and for what he is as a person.”
On Wednesday's session he opened his last minutes to graphics and cameras and, at the end, the coach and a player attended the media in Valdebebas, within the preparation of the double duel against Germany that will mark the closure of the set -up before the continental tournament.
