"It's spectacular. You're seeing it in the games as well. His leadership and the way he takes the team where he wants it to go are incredible. He helps us enormously every day," the Zaragoza player said of someone who, despite this being his first year in the Aragonese capital, has stepped up to take charge of a team where he is serving as first captain.
He shares the captaincy with Trae Bell-Haynes and, precisely, Jaime Fernández. "Even though he isn't from here, he's also helping me a lot with how to manage what the club has often asked of me: to step up in the locker room. I don't think I could have a better teammate for that, and he's helping us enormously," the Zaragoza power forward said, highlighting the role of the Catalan point guard in building a group seeking to reach important heights this season.
A QUIET LEADER
Moreover, Guillem Vives' leadership is not limited solely to the feelings he conveys in the locker room. His impact is also reflected in the numbers of a Casademont side that has found in the Catalan point guard a key piece with which to start the season. After the first four rounds of the ACB, the red-and-black team's No. 16 leads the team's points differential with a +10.5 rating while on the court and is the squad's leading assist provider, averaging 5.2 assists per game.
In this way, Vives is giving the revamped Aragonese side the direction and experience needed to connect his teammates and bring purpose to the team's play. He was the club's first signing of the summer, became the team's first captain and will be the main beacon guiding a Casademont side that wants to continue extending its attractive style of basketball and go far in a season that has only just begun.
