Tomorrow Mumbrú receives a tribute in Miribilla, perhaps the definitive one, that of the farewell. When she hung up her boots in 2018, she starred in a simple act, because the team went down to the LEB and there was not much desire for parties. He is now going to retire his shirt, four years late, and it sounds like the end of the stage after 9 seasons as a player and 4 as a coach. He completes the two seasons that he signed after promotion and after leading Bilbao Basket to be the revelation team in the ACB the following season. He then signed for another two years, which he completes in June.
The Real Madrid crisis and doubts about the figure of its coach, Pablo Laso, have sparked rumors about possible candidates to take his chair, and one of the names that have appeared in the white circle is Mumbrú. But he has ruled out any rapprochement. “Putting Laso in question seems like a utopia to me. He has won everything, he has been in all the finals, playing well. It’s just that I didn’t even get in, it seems to me something totally absurd”, he stated in a blunt tone.
The option of training Madrid, at least today, does not contemplate it: “It has not crossed my mind, nor do I consider it. Putting the figure of Pablo into question is not just an error, it’s that I don’t know what else he has to do. Maybe he has to win seven NBA rings! He has won it all. There is nothing to discuss”.
Madrid’s crisis is rampant and even brings forces closer to tomorrow’s game in Miribilla. The current champion accumulates a win and seven losses and the locker room begins to crack. Heurtel and Thompkins will not wear the merengue shirt again due to indiscipline before a match in Athens against Patahinaikos and Yabusele has been sanctioned. “Separating players from a team is not something easy and when you do it it is because something is not working or because they are not being professional enough within the group. That is something of Pablo and surely the decision is the best for the club and the team. After that they played a great game in Barcelona, they were about to win. Madrid is Madrid. They come from some defeats in the Euroleague when they had an incredible first leg, they have lost against Tenerife, Manresa and Baskonia, playoff teams that also play things. They are taking shape because their peak does not have to be now, in the middle of the season, but when the playoffs of the competitions are approaching, which is when they have to be prepared to compete,” argues Mumbrú.
Bilbao Basket will be able to count on its entire squad, without the usual Mustache after its fright. He has just certified the virtual permanence and his mood is very high, so he dreams of another feat. “Now Madrid is at a time when it has suffered some defeat that perhaps it did not expect, but they are capable of playing very physically, of bringing together five very large players on the pitch, over two meters tall, of playing with three small , defenses vary, Tavares controls the inside game together with Poirier, on the outside they have talent with Llull, Taylor, Rudy or Causeur… inside they add Yabusele, Randolph. I don’t discover anything saying that Real Madrid is a great team, they are going to come here to beat us and it will be difficult because we will have to be very good for forty minutesand that they are not, to be able to be in the game”, concluded the Barcelona coach.
