Chus MatthewReal Madrid coach, lamented the elimination suffered in the Euroleague after her team fell against Olympiacos in the fourth duel of the playoff series that has faced both teams and acknowledged to remember some losses that had ended in victories could have avoided them to measure themselves to the Greek team, leader of the regular phase.
“The teams take to find the operation when there are so many changes, we have changed the 50% of the workforce compared to last year. We were already rolling at cruise speed and surely The beginning of the season He has marked the possibility of having to fight all the last regular league matches ”said. The Madrid coach added that “To make that effort and compatible it with the league made us have to play finals for a long time, including the play-in adding two more games. There is some lost game that has hurt us like those of Asvel y Maccabi. I remember them a lot because We would have avoided one of the best in Europe”.
“We had to fight a lot this year to reach this last shot. I don’t think we can sue ourselves too much more. Seventy -five games are many to be well; It is not always possible because you play against the best teams in Europe and Spain. If something teaches me is to be proud of work done despite not achieving the goal “he declared.
About the duel he considered that they had “A bad start to the third quarter” And that conditioned his people before a rival who is “A team”. Even so, he assumed that the team left his life and returned to the game, having the last option in a triple of Alberto Abalde that did not enter: “The last shot is very well takena good decision to win and send the series to Athens “. “I would have liked it above all for him that instead of having a bitter memory of this fourth game, his memory was to put the triple of victory. dirty work That it is not seen that on a personal level I would have liked him very much, one of the ones who works the most in the shadow. He has done what he had to do and He has had the bad luck that this ball did not enter. Will enter “he added.
In relation to arbitration and the fifth foul to Walter Tavares, he said: “I do not like to value arbitration action, neither today nor the series. We are athletes and we think that all who are on the court, including the referees, are also ”. “The referees,” he continued, “sometimes they can make decisions that can be wrong, but never having a bad intention. We have had many problems during the series to keep Tavares In the field playing less minutes than I would have liked, but they are circumstances of the game and I will not turn it around ”.
Mateo also referred to the calendar: “We do not put excuses, but since April 13 we have Eight games played, without stopping, and the Olympiacos Cuatro. And we have to make a very big effort to Compatible the two leagues; We have to do it very well. We realize the difficulty of winning the Euroleague when this happens, and we have more than any. Now that we are not going to win it, I would like to be counted every year trying to do it ”.
He also deepened the physical problems that prevented being present to Gabriel Deck already Serge Ibaka: “Since he was injured against Barça, Deck has been re -requested from a hip that does not let him compete at the level we expect from him, with a lot of pain. And Yesterday I could no longer. He could not make the effort that a situation like this requires and thought it was better to take the appropriate precautions and treat it as we should and not continue to re -take and ballast the team. We hope it will recover at all; There has been a moment that has clenched his teeth with pain without here we would say anything ”.
“Ibaka the day after the third game he got up with his knee very swollen and We had to stop; They have to do what is, if there is something or nothing. Hopefully it is nothing. That continuity to please our leagues and our fans and that lack of rest has sometimes the athlete suffers. These two leagues are tremendously hardand in the middle there is a Cup of the King, but that is the invoice that happens to you. You have to have 15 warriors prepared to compete at the highest level ”complete.
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