Chus Mateo: "We have to have fewer ups and downs in general"

MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Real Madrid basketball coach, Chus Mateo, acknowledged that part of his team's improvement is through "having fewer ups and downs and making fewer unforced errors" and asked "not to lose our way" at the start of the season, while warning of the potential of Virtus de Bologna, rival this Thursday in the Euroleague, and "a 'covered'" in the competition and "very well managed" by Sergio Scariolo.

"We have to have fewer ups and downs in general, make fewer unforced errors and focus. The goal is to be constant and look forward. We are going to try to be more continuous in the things we do well and try to avoid repeating mistakes. , but the sensations are good", Mateo expressed this Wednesday in statements at a press conference collected by the club's website.

The man from Madrid recalled that "each game is a story and there will be moments of good play and others of doubt, games won and lost." "That will happen during the year and has always been like that, but the most important thing is that we stay calm and not lose our way, that we do things well," he said.

"It's been a month since we won the first title and now we're moving forward and we're trying to take steps forward in a long-distance race. As we work together we'll improve and we have to be clear that we have to arrive at the titles prepared," he added. .

About Virtus, he warned that "it is a 'covered', a possible team to enter the 'playoff'". "He has talent and is very well managed with a coach that we all know perfectly well and who prepares his matches very well", he stressed about the figure of Sergio Scariolo.

"They have players who have a lot of European competition at all levels. We're going to see if Shengelia comes in and how they work because they'll have a lot of prominence. We'll have to defend them well and find out what weak points they have", explained Chus Mateo.

Finally, the Madrid coach confirmed that they had to "stop" the Frenchman Fabien Causeur "because he had been dragging a tendon in his knee and fasciitis in the other leg" and seeing that there is "such a tight schedule". "Williams-Goss is joining the team, but he has been out for a long time, he is going little by little and he is not going to play tomorrow. Hanga has evolved very well and will probably be in the game," he stressed.