Everything can be missing from Gian Marco Pozzecco, certainly the coldness and it is not said that it is always bad, but not empathy. Aka Poz, the volcanic CT of the national basketball national team and former playmaker from Italy of Recalcati, Olympic silver in Athens 2004, nicknamed atomic fly.
This video from Italy’s retreat in view of the World Cup is tried scheduled since August. Above all, the list of players called up: between them is Achille Polonara, which would have been on the field, if during the championship playoffs with Virtus, it had not been stopped by the diagnosis of a myeloid leukemia for which it is taking care of.
The convocation is not pro form: Polonara will be an analyst, his task will be to distance a concrete support to the team in retreat: “His knowledge of the context, of my basketball, of the whole environment, – explained the Poz to the Gazzetta dello Sport – makes him precious for us. It will work through Synergy, a video and statistics analysis program: We will draw on his ideas, his ideas, his analyzes, and I am convinced that it will be an added value. He lived this national team from the first moment, has a complete view of what we do. I want to really feel part of the blue environment “. For this reason, on the official Istagram profile of Italbasket, the first post of the retreat with the comment” first thought “was the video of the video call in Polonara that seems a bistic of words but it is not at all: it is one of the many ways that can be invented to team up, the theme of which Pozzecco is a master.
Pozzecco and Polonara, moreover, shared a long road in the field and bench in 2018-2019 with the shirt of the Banco di Sardegna SassarI, winning the Fiba Europe Cup and reaching the final-school, then lost against the human Reyer Venice in the race-7. And after, since the Poz is CT, with the national team starting from the 2022 European Championships, passing through the 2023 World Championships and then for the pre -limpid tournament of 2024.
Speaking of his coach’s philosophy, the Poz, on the eve of his first important exit from CT, told FC: «As a player I dreamed that he trained a person who trusted me regardless of my limits: I am convinced that a way to grow a player is trusting him. The coach, like the garments in general, tries to have control, does it for his serenity: a team of disciplines gives security, but this is not trusting. I am a bit anomalous. I am truly entrusted to my players ». Of which, despite being a father for just two years, he has always said he felt a little father: “In the relationship of paternity – he explained to us in the interview mentioned -” The most significant data is altruism: when my little girl has a high fever, if I could take my fever in place I would do it without thinking. What I want for her is not that I give me soddipations, but that I live happy and satisfied with her path. With my players I have a similar attitude ».
From one who expresses himself like thateven if then sometimes it is wrong because for too much empathy with his team he exceeds in protests and gets caught by the bench, the idea of the convocation of Polonara, It is a feasible prediction, because outside the basketball patterns but inside the patterns of life as the Poz has always been, one who with a meter and 81 of stature, who in the giants basketball was worth a penny of cacio, has been able to dream of a career as a basketball player and conquer it.
