MADRID, Jan. 24 (SportsFinding) –
Real Madrid coach Pablo Laso stressed the importance of “recovering team sensations”, beyond the results are not accompanying, with a new defeat this Friday against Efes in Euroleague, where Larkin was decisive in the last minutes .
“We are not going to solve the problems individually. What worries me is not so much to win or lose at this moment, it is to grow as a team. When you come from bad results you become more anxious,” he told a press conference after the 21st day of the Euroleague held at the WiZink Center.
“We have improved many aspects of the game that we were suffering, in rebound, in assists, but we must recover team feelings. Make fewer mistakes, things our techniques that we must recover slowly. The team has fought, something that is not negotiated. We played against the best team in the Euroleague, it's fucking lost at home but that's it, tomorrow we travel to Manresa, “he added.
Madrid conceded their fourth straight defeat but Laso praised the fight of his team and also Larkin in the rival, author of 32 points. “In basketball you can do things well and have the other team do better. Larkin has made a good game, there is a big difference in terms of fouls and free throws. It would be easy to say that it is the fault of the referees, but they have He knew how to play with that and we didn't, “he said.
“I look at my team although there have been doubtful situations. Larkin has had a lot of success in important moments and very difficult shots, it is part of the basketballs that we must assume. It has been a very close game. Our start has been very good, but we knew that they would enter the game. They had a very unbalanced player like Larkin, with good percentages and difficult baskets. Those last baskets and Pleiss's baskets have been decisive, “he added.