
Isaac Nogués (Badalona, 10-02-2004) is a hard guy on the track and is also and much with himself. The escort raised in the Joventut, direct and without tapujos, becomes “a clear suspense” in his first Summer League of the NBA with the Sacramento Kings After having only played a match of the six that has played a runner -up Californian team after losing the final against the MVP Charlotte Hornets Kon Knueppel (83-78).
“I have to work so that I do not happen again,” he says in conversation to MD Catalan, who does not seek excuses despite the peculiar situation of some Kings who called Nogues to the Summer League, to, incomprehensibly, just try it on the track despite arriving with the vitola of one of the best defenders of the G-League, in the Best defensive quintet of the Second Division of the NBA after its great year with the Rip City Remix, the subsidiary of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Although the Summer League is to let young people show themselves and break up, Sacrament 25 years or older including one with 29 years like Jon Elmore and people with NBA experience to a greater or lesser extent such as Devin Carter, Isaiah Crawford and Isaiah Stevens. Also players from his G-League Stockton Kings team, the current NBA Second Division champion with the MVP Mason Jones including.
In such a context, Isaac Nogués has had it complicated to get a hole as a younger player in the Roster at 21 years, without the Sacramento coach in this summer league, Dipesh Mistry, He has dared to touch his rotation too much. Even so, Mistry was able to testify that the Penya quarry is a special defender with that 10 robber record against the Santa Cruz Warriors in December: in its 10 minutes before the Phoenix SunsNogués left the one who could have been the defensive highlight of this Summer League in that play in which he threw himself with everything to the ground to recover a ball.

Isaan Nogués played his only game with the Sacramento Kings in this Summer League against the Phoenix Suns
“His ball pressure. Oh my God! Once I put him in the game, you feel it immediately,” Mistry told MD. “I think that in a G-League match he had 10 robberies And I just saw it once put in the game, an immediate robbery, ”added the coach, who did not give more opportunities to Isaac Nogués. Even so, the Catalan makes clear in a pleasant talk with MD that does not give up in his illusion of his illusion of Reach the NBA.
How do you value your experience in Summer League?
The experience has been very good as a spectator, but not as a player. As a player a clear suspense, I have played practically anything, he made me illusion when I played and believed that I was going to play from that game, but no. So I think it has been a personal disappointment, but they are things that happen. I am not used to not playing and then that is what frustrates me the most.
Have you been told because they haven't given him more minutes?
No. I think they had a rotation already marked with the good players and I think they didn't really know me. Obviously they knew he was a good defender, that he could happen and such. The people of this staff, not the front office, not the GM, but the coaches with the few workouts that we have done could not demonstrate much either, I believe that among the nine NBAs they had between two-way And normal contract placed there to win the tournament and they didn't care who played and who didn't.
“I didn't get inspired by anyone, I play with things that have happened to me in the life and criticisms of the people”
To this day, how do you paint your future?
Today I have options to stay. In Sacramento I don't know, but I have options around here and my idea is to continue here unless something very strange happened. But right now is to go home, be with the family and see what happens.
Options in the G-League?
Yes, that sure.
Then, for now he does not contemplate returning to Europe. He wants to continue in the United States to continue on the NBA radar.
Yes, because the feedback they had given me was good. But there comes a time when you don't know if the feedback they give you are real or not because first they tell you one thing and now you get here and you see that it has been something completely different. At least, for what I understood, maybe I understood it badly. So, everything is to see and know what happens.
If you reach the NBA, what player profile can it become?
I am sure that I am a good defender and that I am a very good defender. And I think I can change matches. I don't think so, I know I can change games because I have demonstrated it. I will not tell you that I can put five triples because I know that I would not get them. But I am a good player, quite versatile and that I can change games.
But it is clear that it is difficult and I have to work a lot so that this that happened to me does not happen again, because if this happened to me it is because they do not trust me and if they do not trust me it is my fault. So I have to do to trust me.
He is known above all as a defensive specialist, what does he have to improve offensively?
I am a defensive specialist and I don't mind being a defensive specialist. What happens is that I have to take away this problem that I have many times, that it costs me a lot to throw away, go to the hoop for a little fear of failing and I must be the one who takes it away, nobody can change that.
He is a hard player, who is inspired in basketball or outside him to be someone who never surrenders as much on and off the track?
I really did not inspire me, I play with things that have happened to me in life, I have had to win here. Two years ago I was in a completely different place (Peñas Huesca de Leb Plata), and people's criticism, the people who do not trust what I play when I go out to play and it is what I transform.
“Represent Badalona? I carry it with a lot, a lot, much pride”
You have represented Badalona on the track and the Summer League and the city has also been represented by Jordi Fernández and Anna Cruz in the Brooklyn Nets coaching staff. How does that pride of Badalona feel in America and the NBA surroundings?
I carry it very much, much, much pride. I always try to represent Badalona in the same way, I love being from Badalona and that there have been no players like that, at least so far. So, it makes me very excited because many people from Badalona are proud of me and it is about playing many times, knowing that I represent a city.
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Almost two weeks in Las Vegas give a lot. Do you have any fun anecdote that can count?
Do not believe, I have tried to be quite centered, I have only done basketball and family. If I had left I would tell you, hopefully, because it is something that I like too, but no. But in the end they were new companions, I did not have the total confidence to do something else. Surely if I had played with Portland, it would have been completely different, both inside the track and outside. Outside the track has been the same, head basketball and little else.
Sergi Oliva has helped him a lot, he had as coach at the Rip City Remix, the Blazers subsidiary. What is the most important advice you have given?
With Sergi I have not spoken yet, I will have to tell him to see what he thinks that he has not played anything. In the end he is a worker from another team, I have had a good bond and I like to explain things and simply see what he thinks, but he can't do much more than he has.