In an interview with Catalunya Radio in early September, Alex Abrines compared current Barcelona coach Roger Grimau to his predecessor, Sarunas Jasikevicius.<\/p>\n
“The change from last year to this is strange,” said the Blaugrana captain. “Going from Saras, who is more expressive and shouts more, to Roger is a transition that I obviously like. You don’t expect it and it’s hard to react after three years of Saras and one of (Svetislav) Pesic,” Abrines said.<\/p>\n
In a recent conversation with Gigantes, Abrines made the same comparison. It is no secret that the Lithuanian coach’s demands and mannerisms in the Barca dressing room did not please a good number of players. Indeed, he openly said that Grimau’s style was better.<\/p>\n
“Saras was someone who demanded a lot, very intense and lived basketball a lot,” Abrines told the podcast.<\/p>\n
“Even [Svetislav] Pesic had that Yugoslavian gene of pushing a lot, shouting a lot,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
Abrines also acknowledged that he feels more comfortable with the new coach: ‘It’s better, more bearable. With such a long season and so many games to play, if you have someone yelling at you from Monday to Saturday, eventually you get tired and stop doing things,” he admitted.<\/p>\n
“Because instructions go in one ear and out the other. There has to be a little bit of everything. When you have to be good, you have to be good. But when the team is not turning, you have to be firm and give us a wake-up call,’ the Spaniard concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an interview with Catalunya Radio in early September, Alex Abrines compared current Barcelona coach Roger Grimau to his predecessor, Sarunas Jasikevicius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":222791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-358537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/2021Ozbot30May_F4_1033.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358537"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=358537"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=358537"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=358537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}