Garcia admitted that becoming a head coach from being an assistant coach will be "a big challenge", while emphasizing that he has learned a lot through playing in top-level competitions over the past seven years working with previous coach Lucas Mondelo, including three straight titles with Shanxi.

"The challenge always comes with a lot of pressure. If you are not able to overcome the pressure, you cannot be a head coach," he declared.

Despite Garcia's reservations, Shanxi cannot be overlooked in the WCBA title fight for one simple reason: Elizabeth Cambage.

"She is a difference-maker," Garcia said of his star center. "When she's on court, everybody goes around her. Defensively it's easy with her in the paint, because other teams cannot score easily in the paint. Offensively it's going on all around her, because when you don't pay attention to her, she can score 40 points."

But Garcia hopes that beyond scoring, the 203cm Australian center can become a team leader in an all-round sense.

"I expect her to be a kind of leader of our team, and try to engage everybody to play like a team. I don't want her to be the best scorer every time and everybody else just looks at her," Garcia pointed out, adding that domestic players need to take responsibility on the court.

"They need to take the opportunity when the coach makes them play. They have to know it's not just foreign players scoring or doing everything. Chinese players need to understand that they also can be important players in their teams," he declared.

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