The CT: “Achille will make video and statistics analyzes. Little is a great stimulus. The exclusion of Mannion? I made many choices based on team identity, they are not judgments”
The blue summer began great: the European women’s national bronze in Athens, a European Under 20 gold in Crete, the Under 15 friendship trophy, won after 16 years in France. “There would be a reflection if we are one of the countries that use less young people,” says CT Pozzecco. Now it’s up to his national team to start the work, which aims to have the European late August.
How do you comment on these results?
“The great work of the Federation and the General Manager Salvatore Trainotti is making fruit beyond the forecasts. With the involvement of Gigi Datome, the national teams sector is doing something extraordinary. I was involved and having given some guidelines makes me feel part of a project that President Petrucci wanted, trusting the right people as Salvatore and Gigi are precisely”.
Polonara, hospitalized for care against leukemia in Valencia, told us that you feel every day. It is also he who helps you, right?
“Yes, but this is not only this, he will give us a concrete support: his knowledge of the context, of my basketball, of the whole environment makes him precious for us. He will work through Synergy (a video and statistical analysis program, editor’s note): we will draw on his ideas, his ideas, his analyzes and I am convinced that it will be an added value. He experienced this national team from the first moment, he has a complete vision of what we do. really part of the blue environment “.
What admires of man?
“Achilles is a player of strong feelings: when there are important emotions, he pulls out his best basketball. He always goes further, he becomes immaid. And he can do it above all in important games. I had it in Sassari and in the national team: his best performances with me were in the playoffs against Milan and with Serbia to the European Championship. Outside the best “.
The process for the passport of the pitch proceeds, what could bring to his national team?
“It is thanks to the incredible work of President Petrucci, by Gigi Datome and Deputy Secretary Tomassi. I am enthusiastic about being able to have donated: I met him in the United States and he left me excellent sensations. I think he will need little time to understand our game: he is awake, he plays in NBA, yes, but he has a natural predisposition for European basketball. A stimulus. but I want to clarify it: I thought we could win before.
What game will arise from his team?
“I have clear ideas. We will pass the ball, we will help us in defense, we will create a group for which everyone wants to be loved, not only tolerated, but in which they know how to accept the errors. I trust my players especially when they are not doing well: that’s where they need trust and consideration. I’m on their part to the end. Then I am proud of my assistants: it is thanks to the daily confrontation that reflections, stimuli and solutions”.
What lesson does it carry from the Pre -Cholimpico to Puecole?
“At European 2022 and the 2023 world championship we played with great spirit, moving. Last summer instead something was missing, for various circumstances. But this year we leave differently, I want that charge: Nik Melli and Simone Fontecchio will be decisive to find those emotions. We will always go strong, starting from 5 against zero in training”.
The exclusion of Mannion?
“As always, I spoke directly with the player. In the national team I don’t have to select the best, but to create a team with an identity, sometimes even at the expense of talent. It is a choice, not a negative judgment. I had to do others and are all functional to what is the moment, the other players, the space, my ideas. We have made many evaluations even on the youngest kids, so I always wonder if a convocation is functional to their growth path. I followed it, it deserves to be with us. “
What would the women’s national team that won bronze?
“The coach Capobianco has done a truly extraordinary job. I saw the field in the field I believe: a group available, united, and everything then returned with the beautiful basketball expressed and with how much Zandalasini, Super, was” inside “the team”.
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