Rubén Burgos: "Our defense keeps us with all the options"

22/01/2020

Valencia Basket coach Rubén Burgos commented that “our defense keeps us with all the options within the round. In the preparation of the game we knew the importance of curbing their score and streaks. It's a consistent team, with good shooters, with a differential center such as Linskens and a player in the point guard position who is key in offensive movements. It's a team with a lot of points. We were focused to stop that and the prove was the first quarter. They forced us to understand it and do it even better. Our defense from there improved, leaving them always in a score less than 15 points in the following periods. We improved from being able to run, play with better spaces and there find our advantages, that we had them with mobility and versatility of our players in front of them".


After almost 7,000 kilometers to their destination, the coach thinks that “the effort has been very good by the team after a hard trip. The low post game diminished by Julia's injury. I think the players left everything on the court and are aware that this is the haltime of an 80-minute tie, we are 5 down and now the Fonteta, in front of our fans, being able to print an even higher pace and having greater confidence with the heat of Fonteta, I hope we have options to overcome the round.”


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