Eight games has lasted the adventure of Thomas Heurtel in Coruña basketball. The French base will not dress the orange shirt again. Absent the last two games, in Malaga against Unicaja and last Sunday in La Victoria against Granada, an arthroscopy will be submitted this Thursday to know the real reach of his left knee injury.
The 36 -year -old, who from his arrival in A Coruña followed a specific and individualized training plan, He resented the inconvenience in his knee during the defeat in Valencia, on March 22. Club’s medical services confirmed an affectation in the meniscus and estimate a period of between eight and twelve weeks For your recovery. Diego Epifanio will not be able to count on him in the final section of the course and the club does not consider making a signing to cover his decline.
The 36 -year -old, who already lost the 2019 World Cup due to a partial breakage of the patellar tendon in the same knee, It became the great signing of the law in the winter market. The club announced its incorporation on January 10 and four days later the Coliseum was presented. “I have rejected offers of Euroleague teams. I wanted to return to Spain and I think this is a very good project,” he said in his first public appearance in A Coruña.
On January 18, he premiered in the defeat against UCAM Murcia with 4 points and 5 assists in 15 minutes of play, a small show its potential. The following week he did not travel to Madrid to measure his exequipo for an inflammation in the left knee. He reappeared at the Coliseum on February 1 with another promising performance, 12 goals and 8 basket passes in 17 minutes, although he did not avoid another defeat against Gran Canaria.
Heurtel’s final explosion with Coruña basketball occurred seven days later, on February 8 at the Olìmpic in Badalona. The Frenchman took the keys of the team and forced an extension against the Joventut (third defeat) with a master class in the address: 14 points and 18 assists, top of the season and second best mark in the history of the ACB League.
Heurtel’s exhibition shot the rumors about his possible departure (signed a contract with a clause of buy-out In case of Euroleague offers) during the break by the Copa del Rey and the FIBA windows. “Mola this to help save a team,” he acknowledged in an interview with Dxt championthe first with a means of communication after his arrival in A Coruña.
After the important victory against Lleida, the first and unique with Heurtel on the track (9 points and 6 assists in 22 minutes), The runrun settled over his continuity. The closure of the transfer market in the Euroleague confirmed that the French game director would end the season With the Leyma T -shirt, although it will finally be before the desired one.
His last four games ended in defeat: in Manresa (19 points and 6 assists), at home against Breogán (26 and 8), in Valencia (16 and 12), where he resented discomfort, and again in the coliseum against Girona (3 and 9 in just 21 minutes), An encounter that has already reached between cottons. It was the last appearance with Heurtel’s orange, a differential player and who will leave her pass through A Coruña, with averages of 12.9 goals and 9 basket passes.
