Carris LeVert rose through the skies ready to make a seemingly routine basket, when suddenly, Juan Toscano appeared out of nowhere to give him a huge lid. Born in Oakland, California, the Warriors forward sails proudly with the Mexican flag through the NBA’s oceans collecting moments that border on epic like that plug on the Nets player at the end of last year, waiting to fill the Steve Kerr’s eye.
The Mexican national team was not scheduled to play this season with Golden State, so he was cut from his non-guaranteed contract. However, the coach remained firm in his desire to have one of his favorite players, so the quintet offered him a two-way bond, which he has managed to squeeze by averaging 15.0 minutes per game with 3.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game; figures with which he has been able to swim among ferocious sharks.
“For me it’s adaptation,” ex-NBA Fabricio Oberto responded to RECORD in a videoconference, about what Toscano-Anderson needs to stay current in the league. “Many times you see a player who reaches an organization and a structure that improve players, what happens is that for that if we put the extreme, Curry, when he arrived he had players in front of him who played in his position, he was accommodating the team, was coaching ”.
For the one born in Las Varillas, Argentina, and currently a commentator on NBA League Pass, It is precisely in the mirror of Golden State star Stephen Curry that the 27-year-old Californian with a Mexican passport should look. Well, figures are not made overnight, on the contrary, the better the process, the more easily a player can start to shine on the court.
“Curry didn’t shoot the way he shoots today, he didn’t have the effectiveness, dexterity, versatility and reading. That also takes years of preparation, so I think what you have to have is a lot of patience, understanding; one is going to adapt ”, he explains. “The NBA is leading you to each build a path, the responsibility is great. It is not an easy place because you have to adopt a role especially in that team where they play and you have to win it over, but if he plays there another team can see him and say ‘come here, we need the way you play’ ”.
At the end of the previous season, the member of the 12 Warriors began to stand out in Kerr’s scheme by having a lot of space in the team due to the notable losses, mainly from Curry and Kay Thompson. But after the return of the Davidson graduate, Toscano-Anderson has had to readjust to the dynamics of the team.
“I love his athleticism, he is a boy with strength and physical power with an impressive spring. He has an intensity of play and a very good defense, look who he defends in the NBA; now, you have to put the ball in and that is what Anderson is trying to do. Toscano is trying to find his role, a new role with the absence of Thompson, but I see a future for him, the desire he brings makes me believe that he is going to stay, ”says commentator Enrique Garay.
For now, the son of a Mexican mother must take advantage of his minutes on the court to acquire greater constancy, since only in his last game against Portland, he barely added 3 minutes, in contrast to the 17 he had before against the same rival.
“If Toscano gets to have a match that breaks their averages or that wins a match with a clutch, social networks explode. They are going to say ‘here we have the heir to Nájera’ and I think we have to maintain a line, I don’t like comparisons, ”Oberto points out.
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