The system matches in the first stage of the European Championship is, according to the Polish national team captain Marcin Gortat beneficial. White-red start of a duel with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the third day of the tournament, often the most difficult, will face favored France.
PAP Is the first phase of EuroBasket, when six days you have to play five matches, is for you – NBA player, league of high intensity meetings – the challenge?
Marcin Gortat: This is a problem even for me, but in the NBA it happens that we play four games in five days. The European Championships are slightly different rules, some other whistles judges, and above all other demands on me than the Washington Wizards. After that, I no longer 18, but 31. Will it hurt …
PAP The first two matches and the last two grams of rivals with similar potential, with whom we fight for promotion to the play offs. On the third day of the event will Poland to face defending champions – France. This layout?
MG: Layout of matches is good. If we win the first two games, with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia, then the next, from France, will not have such a high caliber. Better “on fatigue” in the third game to play with such a rival than at the beginning. “Trójkolorowi” have great potential and better to try to show the good side than to give everything, jerking, risking injury before the next important meetings with Israel and Finland. To say publicly that match with France can forgive is not anything terrible. In a tournament you have to know when to play on the whole, and when to rest. In the fight in the group strategy it is very important.
PAP If Poland will advance to the play-off phase, it will face with someone from the strongest group of the championship, which include Serbia, Spain, Germany and Italy … This is the highest shelf in Europe.
MG: Eurobasket there are no weak teams, so it really does not matter for whom a fall: Spain, Serbia, Germany … What matters is the disposition of the day. There is in this phase space calculations. Dirk Nowitzki can eat something before the game, you will feel better and the German team immediately looks different. Likewise, it may be Polish if, for example. Marcin Gortat go to the beach in Montpellier and sun “burn” his skin. I want to show that in this one game anything can happen, but about the result determined by various factors, sometimes seemingly little things.
PAP Which of the rival group represents a style that best suits representation Polish, and that is uncomfortable?
MG: I can not say because I have not watched all opponents. Certainly inconvenient for us Finland. Its competitors are throwing a lot of distance. Does it also plays basketball at the “top five”, that is my position. I’ll have to run behind the arc (three-point line), which is not convenient for me. France is a team whose style of play suits us, but there is one problem … the Contractor. “They do not fit” us players, most of the NBA, running on the system.
PAP How do you assess the cooperation with one of debutants player on a key point guard – American AJ Slaughter?
MG: Of all the Americans who played in the representation AJ is najgrzeczniejszy, most framed, quiet, matey. This boy, who does not cause problems, not creates reality, not kicking holes in others. It is very nice. We will need to be more aggressive on the pitch, but I think so his game will create matches. Three times we were able to cut at a barber shop on one chair, three times we were in the restaurant and drank two drinks, but it was not enough to between us was such chemicals, such as. Is between me and Luke Koszarkiem.
PAP So Slaughterowi missing rip the band?
MG: In a way, yes. Everything verify pitch. A.J. seven weeks the guys know me six, so there is no possibility to better understand the dance floor with Luke Koszarkiem, with which we are in the representation of the time when we were both 19 years old. We’d have to play with A.J. three-four years, and he should be the second Steve Nash of eyes around the head, that managed to build a proper agreement between us.
PAP All the players and coaches stress excellent atmosphere in the team, but two years ago, before the European Championships in Slovenia, was the same, and then it turned out that they were in the band but divisions …
MG: This the atmosphere is sensational. Two years ago it was not so bad. We were always a team collegial, but there was one or the other player, with the team a little laugh. It was never, however, isolation, such basketball, which would be impossible to go out together on the dance floor. I think peer has a petty squabbles, but that everything is normal, human. Most of the guys are competing for years in the Polish league. They may or may together not withstand, but I do not know about that. I have no problem with anyone. When you come out with t-shirt with the eagle on his chest, disagreements set aside.
PAP Three meetings Poland will play with unusual hour early, at about 15. Is it for your problem?
MG: No, no. You can eat normally after the game, get enough sleep. In the NBA meetings I am at different times, got used to it. Earlier this definitely a plus for us, and especially for massage therapists. They have more time for the players and can finish off the day before midnight, and not in the morning, when players fall asleep on the tables of physical therapy.
PAP You mentioned several times in the run-up that can be your last season in the national team. What could change this attitude?
MG: At the moment I do not know whether they will be the last championship in representation. Promotion to the Olympics mean for sure my further cooperation, as would be the case if consecutive championships took place in Poland, which is not impossible. Surely such an event would not have missed.
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