Everything is ready for the start of the Final Four of the Basketball Champions League in which two Spanish teams, Unicaja Málaga and La Laguna Tenerife, will seek to lift the champion trophy.
The technicians of both teams, Ibon Navarro and Txus Vidorreta, analyzed in the previous one of their respective semifinals what they expect from the meetings that will decide who will proclaim champion of the 24/25 BCl.
These were the words of Txus vidorreta:
«When you are here, in a Four Four, you do not think about yourself or the legacy, you only have time to think about our Friday’s rival, Galatasaray, we have to take the challenge as a game by party being aware of how happy we are about to have this opportunity.
Every year the level rises, there are tremendous teams, all those who are here. I remember the first one we play, the level has always been tremendous. Reyer won the Italian League and looks at Monaco, Final Four team. Here we have four champions, and the poster is tremendous. But it is also that every year the competition has grown in all aspects and that must be highlighted and congratulate those responsible with Patrick Comninos in front. On this Final Four, we focus on Friday, in the semifinal ».
These were the words of Ibon Navarro:
“We are the champions, but I think we had more pressure last year. I think that last year we had more pressure in Belgrade after our failure in Malaga in the previous Four Four. When you get trophies, it gives you some calm and perspective. We want to face the final Four game by match.
I respect Sakota very much. My last experience here with UCAM Murcia was not the best, they are a very dangerous team, it is an honor to be able to measure someone like him.
Marcelinho Huertas and Alberto Díaz’s words before the Final Four
The words of Alberto Díaz:
«Now we have the pressure but that makes us more prepared, we use it as a motivational element and we are ready for battle, which will not be easy. We know that a spectacular atmosphere awaits us, the fans are tremendous, we know how important it is because in our house, our hobby helps us a lot.
We are ambitious, we know what it costs and we want to live the moment, we do not get used to being here, we want to continue reaping successes and achieve more successes. I think we are facing the most competitive Fourwe have seen that the level has grown throughout the season, I think it is the most level of the year.
We are a very solid team, we have lived with low.»
The words of Marcelinho Huertas:
«I am focused on being my best to help my team in their sixth option to win. We want to focus on what we can do on the court, which has been the recipe that has brought us here. The level of the BCL rises every year, we know how difficult it is to get every year here, you just have to see the payroll of equipment that have been left out. And you see the four that we are here, you see the level, your desire to win, your hunger, the great moment in which we get … will be very difficult.
Individual titles give me the same, I want to win for the club, for what it is for the club, for the island. To win you have to win two games, we have touched a very hard rival with a lot of talent trained very well, they are not the hosts with their atmosphere or unicaja that seems that we are always destined to play against them … I am not happy or discontent, it is a raffle that marks the road, we are simply prepared for the challenge.
We cannot reveal strategists or tactics, but the outer power of Galatasaray is tremendous, they are very well trained, they are strong inside with thin, it has ease to write down, we will have to be attentive to minimize their damage.»
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