A final is always hot. In any sport. But coming from a semifinal in which the opposite side was already in charge of using the other basketball, the Real Madrid He has decided not to give more hype to the controversies in this tie for the title of the Endesa League against the Valencia Basket. Chus Matthew verbalized the desire of White Clubwhich goes through not entering the game of their opponents, something they also tried to avoid at all costs against Unicaja Málaga Although it was more difficult task.
The rival coach, Pedro Martínezit was much more elegant than Ibon Navarrobut he kept protesting the already famous illegal cap of Walter Tavares a Jean Montero Before the basket of Sergio Llull To tie. “I am a little burned with certain actions that have passed in the game,” he said.
«I do not understand that in the last minute none of the three referees put the illegal cap to go to check it. And if I don't whistle, they can't see it or ask for it. Very expert referees, who know when and when not. These referees are known as a lifetime, they have been peeked many times, and in knowledge there is reality, ”added the Valencian coach.
However, two days later he decided to take aside the controversy and focus on the purely tactical to take his team to scratch a victory with which to stay alive in the series: «We have to be concentrated on what depends on us. The referees I hope they do their job, like the other day. It is not my style to make controversial phrases ».
Chus Matthew turns
But really who turned off the fire of what could have been a greater tension was Chus Mateo. Neither entered the rag just after the complaints of his analogue nor did he do it in the previous Valdebebas Looking for the response of the Madrid coach to Pedro Martínez.
«I don't like talking about this. I never speak, or when things are doing well or when they go wrong. It seems to me to focus on something that we should not distract. Our team focuses on playing as well as possible. External factors such as referees at a given time make decisions and are part of the game. It is another factor. I don't like talking about this, ”said a Chus Matthew who focuses on the really important.
The 38 one step away from Real Madrid
And is that his team is one step away from continuing to make history in national basketball. Real Madrid already caresses its thirty-eighth League after 2-0 at the Movistar Arena and wants to close the series in the Fonteta so that Captain Llull Levante on Wednesday night the first trophy of this season, without a doubt the most difficult of Chus Matthew on the bench of the white team.
The Madrid is played a lot in this final, since in Real Madrid a season without titles is not understood. Their pupils arrive at the best moment of the year and possibly with the highest level of recent times. A perfectly greased group in which the usual leaders are adding new followers such as Andrés Happythe ideal replacement for Facundo Facrazzo that opposes his first MVP in a play off of league
