Valencia Basket- UCAM Murcia post-game 1 quotes: Xavi Albert

18/05/2024

“A game in which it was difficult for us to get into rhythm from the start, not so much because of the surprise or not of attacking a zone defensa. It is an initial approach that can get you out of rhythm. We have had shots, we have been more or less successful. In this kind of game you get ready for any tactical solution. At first it did slow us down because we couldn't find accuracy in the shots we could create. In the end I think it was not a differential factor, we ended up scoring 86 points. I think we have to put the focus of the game on a very improvable defensive work in which we have not been able to control certain references such as today were Sleva, Jonah or Kurucs. When the team wanted and got closer on the scoreboard they scored shots of big merit. I do not downplay the importance of what we have to focus on. We have come out, despite it being a Playoff home-game, with the ideas behind it and a level of defensive intensity that we cannot allow ourselves to end the first quarter with a foul and making the second at the end or five fouls in a first half in which that we have conceded almost 50 points to the rival. The easy reading is to talk about the zone or non-zone because the tactical variant exists. We would be wrong to talk about what we can do better in attack and we have to demand much greater defensive responsibility from each and every one of us to face the game and each mini-battle of what the game is. From here, there is little time. Improve what needs to be improved, recover the physical situations, and clear your head. It is a short Playoff series but we know the battle that awaits us on Wednesday requires everything we have and we want the series to return to Valencia so we can play again and demonstrate what we have not achieved today.”


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