MADRID, 27 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Real Madrid basketball coach, Pablo Laso, was “very happy” to get the pass to the ‘Final Four’ of the Euroleague and congratulated his players for “their great work” from the initial jump of the first game until the end of the third, and pointed to “the defense” as the “key” to have overcome the Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv.
“First, I want to congratulate my players, I think they did a great job in this series, from the first minute until we finished it. I want to give a lot of credit to Maccabi, a team that probably had their worst moment in the second quarter of the second game. in Madrid when we got that advantage. I’m very happy to reach the ‘Final Four’, knowing that, for sure, we still have work to do,” Laso said after the game in statements collected by the Euroleague website.
The man from Vitoria believes that the entire ‘Playoff’ “speaks highly” of his players and “the way they approached the first game, the second and the third”. “I think today was a very solid performance from us. We read the game very well, in attack we moved the ball well and looked for imbalances,” he celebrated.
“We had some stupid turnovers that hurt us because we knew they are very good when they can bounce and run so we try to stop them in those situations but it’s still not easy but I think it was a great offensive performance.” Madrid coach.
This made it clear that “defense was the key in the series.” “I think we were able to shut down Wilbekin and Nunnally, probably their biggest players and we knew they are very dangerous. Wilbekin started strong, scored 22 points and Nunnally got 17, but we were still able to do a great job.”
“The rebound was very important for us. It is something that we probably controlled throughout the series and I think that today it was also a key factor in controlling the pace of the game,” said Pablo Laso.