In Dijon, can Orléans Loiret Basket treat his travel sickness?
It’s the little music of the moment on the side of the club: if the OLB, last in the championship, is struggling, it is in particular because it was forced to travel a lot at the start of the season.
Orléans Loiret Basket never able to worry Roanne
“There is necessarily a mental aspect”
The repeated unavailability of the sports center indeed leads Orleans to dispute, this Saturday, November 20, at 8 p.m., in Dijon, his sixth Betclic Elite match away from his hall, while we are playing the 9th day.
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“In a period where we manage to be correct at home and where we are not good on the move, having played two-thirds of our away games didn’t help us“, Agrees Germain Castano, the OLB coach.
The difference in commitment appears indeed flagrant between the services of Orleans in their den and far from their bases.
But where does this travel sickness come from? And how to cure it? This is the mystery that the players and staff of the OLB strive to elucidate. “It is difficult to explain it”, recognizes Jérémy Nzeulie. “The team is not made of bad guys, or players who don’t care, on the contrary … There is necessarily a mental aspect, we have to focus on it, that it becomes our first objective to hope. see the best from this weekend, “continues the rear, who also ends his medical freelance this evening and does not yet know if he is asked beyond.
In difficulty, Orléans Loiret Basket intends to strengthen its workforce
Defense above all
To begin its moult, Orléans, who collects an average of 91 points per game in the shoes of a visitor, must resolve the most glaring of its flaws: its defensive shortcomings.
“There are a lot of parameters involved. Already, we are not bad enough: we are a team of good people, we have to stop being nice“, insists Germain Castano.
“Afterwards, there are players who, unconsciously, know that they are going to play 30 minutes so who do not want to make mistakes at the start of the match and are therefore a little passive defensively. Finally, there are guys who are not not hard naturally, but which will have to become so, “warns the coach.
The moving game advocated by Germain Castano must take root in defensive intentions. His team, who was the one who did the most pass the decisive last year in the league (20.1), is today penultimate in this sector (16.6, and even 15.2 on the move).
“It doesn’t sound like us,” grimaces the technician. “When we can make stops, we will start to run and pass the ball.”
If it could start tonight …
Jerome Couton-Coudray
