Real Madrid coach, Chus Mateo, said Sunday about the white reaction to win the second game of the Endesa League final against Valencia Basket that E, triumph “speaks a lot of the mentality and hunger of the team.”
Mateo explained at the press conference after the meeting that the team realized the mistakes “just in time” and tightened “the teeth at the most complicated moment” before a Valencia that “does not allow you licenses because it defends well and attacks extraordinary.”
The Madrid coach stressed that his team showed “much hunger” when tracing “a complicated game and being able to score baskets of great merit at very complicated moments”, after Valencia had a lot of success opening the field with Matt Costello.
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“It is the final of one of the best competitions in Europe and we have realized that we were playing a final. Valencia does not allow you licenses, but we have tightened our teeth at the most complicated moment.”
Thus, he pointed out that it was “difficult to” stop the counterattacks of Valencia Basket and stressed that this Sunday the team 'Taronja' played “very well and made difficult things like nobody.”
In fact, he warned that the final, despite going 2-0, is not over, something that they have “very clear”, and they still have to fight “point to point every game.”
Regarding the basket that forced the extension of Sergio Llull, he explained that the Balearic is “a born winner” and despite not being in his best league, “his history in basketball endorses him.”
“It is a gift to live next to Llull this kind of thing. He gave us a Euroleague but it seems our daily bread. It is repeated and repeated,” concluded Chus Mateo.
