The best season of the career of Brandon Taylor He has not been accompanied, except for surprise, for the collective success that would have been the permanence of Leyma Coruña in the Endesa League. The Galician team opted last summer to maintain much of the block that had taken the Endesa League for the first time and one of its important incorporations was this little one Californian base of 1.78 meters and 31 years old that had not had regularity, although some brilliant actions, in Manresa under the orders of Pedro Martínez. However, in the Galician team they gave him an important role and Taylor has interpreted it with great quality, to the point that Jaume Ponsarnau pointed out yesterday that at many times of the season the US player He has played “at the level of the best base of the Endesa League”.
Brandon Taylor fitted as a glove in a very consolidated group, its adaptation to the city was very fast and its performance has been very high since the first day. That day, he scored 20 points against Real Madrid and only seven of the thirty games he has played has scored less than ten points. Besides, In seven meetings he has exceeded ten assistshighlighting his performance against Lleida Hiotos when his fifteen basket passes placed in the historical top 10 of the ACB. Taylor has had the keys and gallons of the team in a director of director and executor, although the arrival of Thomas Heurtel made him play more outside the ball. Even so, American numbers are brilliant: 13.1 points and 6.8 average assists, with 42% success in triples and 92% in free throws. Among the bases, only Marcelinho Huertas and Jean Montero improve their global performance, which has had no reflection in the results of their team.
In 23 of the 30 games that Taylor has played the ten points and in seven he has distributed more than ten assists
Bilbao Basket must be careful tomorrow with a creative player and who Use the feints very well to generate spaces and take shots despite its scarce stature. Trained at the University of Utah, Brandon Taylor has followed an ascending online professional career. He started in Hungary, then played in Romania and in the Italian A-2. The 19-20 season in the Le Mans was his first in one of the powerful leagues in Europe and since then he has played at Reggio Emilia, Gravelains and Chinese Bayi Rockets before arriving at Manresa and now A Coruña.
He himself has recognized that in his stay in the Catalan team he could not give his best level since “he had too many things in his head,” but This course has found its place and has been able to display all its skills in attack. “Here I feel much more comfortable with my role, I think they have put me in an ideal position to succeed. This leads me not to think much when I throw, I get fluid. I only go to the court and game,” says a player who does not go crazy for winning or losing and tries to grow a good family life and out of the court “because basketball will not be there forever.”
