Darío Brizuela, the microwave of the national team: "I'm here to blow up the games"

Darío Brizuela (San Sebastián, 1994) is the dynamite in the national team's gas leak, the guy called to turn everything upside down from the bench.

Meritorio de las Ventanas, the Unicaja shooting guard trained in the Estudiantes quarry, faces his first major tournament with Spain with the voracity of one who knows that opportunities are there to be seized.

Tonight against the Lithuanian towers, his unique ability to generate points seems key for Scariolo's men to advance to the quarterfinals.

He responds to EL MUNDO after a walk through Berlin.

Once in the round of 16 as group leaders, do you feel liberated? No.

From the beginning we were clear that the objective was to compete for everything.

Finishing first in the group is important, but we don't feel like the goal is achieved.

We no longer have that pressure, but now we want to continue competing and moving forward.

It was an important step, but that's it. Did you learn from those two defeats against Lithuania in the preparation? Yes, sure.

They have a very strong inside game, we will have to focus on that.

And on the outside they have people who shoot very well, players like

who handle the ball and generate for others.

But above all, we are not the same team.

We have grown during the preparation, the Window and this first phase.

We are more together, more solid.

I think we are going to see a different game. Would a defeat today mean a failure? Sport is like that and we are used to the fact that in the end the one who does not win is failing.

That is the law of life in sport.

But right now we see the match as an opportunity to advance and fight for the medals, which is what we want.

We face it with enthusiasm and desire.

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Jaime Pradilla, the "Felipe Reyes" who has knocked down the door of the national team: "He has no ceiling"

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The secondary assumptions are responding. We are clear about the roles of each one and we know that each party may need something specific from one of us.

We are super cohesive, we all go together.

We have been given this opportunity for different reasons.

There are several of us who played our first major tournament, but we are experienced players, we have a very important background in the ACB, we have competed in Europe... We are not new to the world of basketball. Once he told me: "I'm surprised that people are surprised at the level of the Spanish player." The players who are here don't have the name that others had.

... we have competed at the highest level, we have skills, a lot of things to offer.

We have been given the opportunity and we have to show that we can help a team as important as Spain.

We are not a team with stars as it could have been years ago, but as a team and in terms of ability to compete I think we are very high. 18 points to Montenegro, sent off for fouls against Turkey... how are you feeling in your first major tournament? I'm having a good time and I feel good in the team and with the role I have.

I know I'm there to try to blow up the games a bit or if points are needed.

I put myself at the service of the team, our job is to be prepared.

ALBERTO NEVADOFEB

Is it easy to be mentally ready for that microwave job? It's not easy, but it's what I'm good at.

What I focus on is studying the rival well, knowing how I can hurt them.

And, when I go out on the track, try to be as confident as possible, aggressive and without doubts.

Generate for myself or for others, try to produce from the second one. Does studying Psychology help you assimilate the failures and the joys that your profession entails? No, because I haven't studied sports psychology yet.

What does help me is more with my personal life and for relationships with my colleagues.

For the sport itself... it would be good for me, because for some things I'm still too self-critical. So, the technique against Turkey will have been difficult for him to forget... Yes, I beat my head a lot.

He wasn't happy about it at all.

But the ultimate goal is for the team to win.

And he won and that's it.

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