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If there are two Spanish teams whose names are synonymous with prolific quarries in great players, those are the Joventut and the Students. Unfortunately, club times and finances have changed, and when the two historic rivals met this weekend, only two native players, one on each side, scored a basket. Albert Ventura of the Joventut made a triple. On the student side - absent Darío Brizuela , everything must be said - the thing was better, since a youth player (from the quarry of Real Madrid, go for God), Víctor Arteaga , made a very complete game with 18 points, 9 rebounds And a plug.

The thing about this game is still anecdotal, but it is not trivial in the week in which we have known that the ACB League 2019-20 is the one with the lowest percentage of Spanish players in its history: only 30% That is, 70% is foreign.

More than one observer, more than one fan usually replies that these are minutiae, that club basketball has long since surpassed any concept of self-sufficiency or autarchy, which together with the -success- quotas of national players (or «training », Who no longer have to be from here) is the freedom to sign the most talented people you can, that the fans want good game and victories with players of any origin, and that for national teams there are already competitions own, from European to Olympic.

All of that is true, but the concept of the quarry, of its own players, is closely linked worldwide to the popularity of a sport, starting with the United States, whose NBA hosts 75% of players there. When local players disappear, the fans are gradually, imperceptibly at first, in decline.

In the case of Spain, one more factor is added: the continued success of our male and female lower teams, which accumulate medals and titles summer after summer. Should we think that they do it with teams with good medium talent, well trained, but without fading figures? Sometimes yes. But other times we see a conservatism (cowardice, say others) of the offices, which harm the young Spanish. And from time to time the outbreak of a Usman Garuba makes us wish that there were more who had such an opportunity. And they should be.

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