Ivan Paolazzi
If a professional competition generates excitement, in the vast majority is for the Championship, In thinking, for example in our Liga Argentina that being champion you can access the elite of Basketball by ascending to the Liga Nacional.
The 1st category is the dream of many, but for others the emotion also passes through another competition that none aspires to be: The descent.
In the past many team leaders only cared about putting together teams that fit their budgets, allowing them to navigate the competition winning at home more than could be lost and above all , looking to leave a good image. This season after a long pause that vision ended.
This year with 34 teams in the League, an interesting decision was made: Relegation to the teams that occupy the last place of each conference at the end of the regular round.
For the South the main threatened is Parque Sur de Concepcion del Uruguay de Concepcion del Uruguay, while for the North the threatened and debutant Sarmiento de Resistencia.
The Entre Rios'team hasn't had them with them since last season: many injuries, low performance of foreign reinforcements, reinforcements that have done the job but left, things that are not in the flight plan, but they affect over almost 5 months of competition.
Ivan Paolazzi at the start of the season told us: This season I hope to have a longer roster. There are youths who come having minutes. The bet was not easy but in October the joy and illusion seemed that the dream could be real: Start 3-2 with 3 wins in a row at home against Hispano, Pilar and Estudiantes. Considering that in the debut they lost to Zarate very open score, but the defeat against Lanus at home had been fought until the last minute.
With a Taurus Adams who seemed to be the player that with Valentin Lofrano (176-PG-1999) would carry recent history and lead them to have a different year.
Things went south, suddenly the injuries began to fall, the defeats began to arrive, the no return of Adams after the holidays that had been his key offensive was an absence difficult to replace, and a fateful classic against Rocamora on 13th November are several elements that have tackled the aspirations of the team.
A record of 1-18 since that classic, they have been the cross that has not been able to lift the frame and seeing the table with 8 games to finish the regular round begins to generate doubts.
He has 4 games left at home, 4 on the road with the opportunity to meet his direct rival: Estudiantes Concordia. At home before Zarate, Rocamora, Villa Mitre and Pergamino; while visiting will see Deportivo Viedma, Villa Mitre, Hispano and Estudiantes.
The biggest complication, obviously, is that it doesn't just happen to win, it happens to win and combine it with defeats of Estudiantes, which seems complicated.
For his part those led by Fernando Malara, things do not look so complex: he has improved in rhythm and at stake beating Ciclista and Pilar in their last checks. You have 2-8 in your last 10 and are having great performances by figures like Matias Alluchon or Alvaro Yarza.
Estudiante's calendar goes by visiting in 6 games and receiving at home 4. They are two more games but the standings have Concordia with 7-15 while the Concepcion of Uruguay are 4-20.
Very difficult the road for the South Park, but as long as they have desire and professionalism they will continue to fight until the last day of the season to avoid the loss of the category, something that hurts a lot for the great mystique and quality that the boys of El Gigante print a court that we hope soon can live better moments.
Tags : IVAN PAOLAZZI, PARQUE SUR DE CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY, ARGENTINIAN BASKETBALL
