MADRID, 23 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Real Madrid basketball coach, Pablo Laso, hopes that his team is recovered from the “great physical effort” of the Copa del Rey to win this Thursday in his visit to Zalgiris, bottom of the Euroleague, but against whom they will have to “He is prepared from the first minute because playing in Kaunas is always difficult.”
“The team must recover from the great physical effort of last weekend and know that we have a difficult Euroleague game because playing in Kaunas is always difficult, there is a great atmosphere on the field, and they have a good team that plays well”, Laso pointed out in statements to the club’s official media.
The man from Vitoria pointed out that his rival has been “penalized a lot by injuries at the start of the season”, but that now he has “a rhythm of play with which they are being very competitive”. “For us it’s a very tough game, demanding and in which we have to be prepared from the first minute,” he warned.
The Madrid coach also doesn’t forget that each game in the Euroleague “is very difficult because you’re playing against the best teams in Europe” and that Zalgirs “has been able to win at home against very difficult teams”. “We know that we are going to have to demand a lot of ourselves if we want to move forward with the game”, he pointed out.
“Our situation is good and we are close to getting the pass to the ‘playoff’. We still don’t have it mathematically and we aspire to get one of the four places that give home court advantage, that is our biggest goal right now and that is what We must think about the game against Zalgiris”, added Laso.
The Real Madrid coach confirmed that his team is “fine”, but that he will lose “two or three weeks” to Fabien Causeur, injured in the Copa del Rey, although the good news is that he will be able to count on Adam Hanga after his blow against Barça in the cup final that “it was very cumbersome”, but that it was “nothing serious”. “We travel with the 13 available players and the only casualty is Rudy Fernández, who has not been able to train with the team,” he said.