The white team accumulates four defeats in the last six games and the doubts point to the white coach
The poor direction of the game, among the problems of a team that does not fuel
The 2022/2023 season is not just another season in the Real Madrid basketball section. The final rush of Paul Laso as coach of the team in a more than controversial ending full of doubts on the part of the club, led to a risky bet: the appointment of the second ‘coach’ of the coach from Vitoria, Chus Mateo, to take charge of the team. A disputed and questioned decision in the white fans and that fully affected, in the gear of a team that he has not tired of winning titles year after year and that has shown a unique competitiveness in Europe. Of course, with templates full of stars but with the unmistakable seal of Pablo Laso, a technician full of personality and stripes to deal with a locker room full of egos and personalities that he always knew how to lead with enough tradition.
The inevitable memory of a past still close, that of a past year in which Madrid was left behind two points to close the season with an ACB and Euroleague double, plays against a Chus Mateo who lives his first crisis at the head of the white transatlantic, after sink before the Virtus of Bologna at the Wizink for 91-95. Everything seemed to go smoothly with the achievement of the Endesa Super Cup before an irregular FC Barcelona which again demonstrated the same gaps as in previous courses. And it was precisely at the Palau, in the second classic of the season, that the seams to Matthew’s team. Surprised by a Barça team that touched the 20 point difference on the scoreboard, the whites clung to the character of a gabriel deck who is the only player who, to date, is performing at the level that was assumed.
An endless squad but with doubts in the base position
With all the healthy players, Real Madrid has 17 chips including the young Eli N’Diaye. And despite the fact that the list of troops is really extensive and is within the reach of few teams in Europe, the truth is that performance at point guard position is concerning: Adam Hanga is a ‘patch’ whose physical problems are conditioning his presence in the team, and both Serge Llull (35 years old) What Sergio Rodriguez (36 years old) they are accusing the demand of a hellish calendar and a competitive level of the highest level for which they are probably no longer there. It remains to be seen how they return after their respective injuries Nigel Williams-Goss Y Carlos Alocen, but insisting until the last minute for the ‘Facu’ Campazzo, and the rumors about the possible signing of the Betis base Shannon Evans They already show that the preparation of the position has not been satisfactory.
Llull, increasingly discussed by Madrid fans
The doubts at the helm of the team are also transferred to the leadership and that figure that must be thrown behind the group when it comes to resolving matches. The poor performance offered by the Deck’s outside cast forces other players to take on that responsibility, and that’s where the decks come into play. indecisions that reflected so much Llull What Muse behind Mateo’s blackboard to play the last action at the Palau. The Bosnian forward arrived at Madrid after standing out in the Breogan, and that role to decide matches that was presupposed with his arrival continues without being able to be seen to the detriment of the ‘tangerines’ of a Llull increasingly discussed among the white fans. As for alternatives, Fabien Causeur has started the course at an unrecognizable level compared to the one that ended last year, and the exaggerated autonomy that it stars Mario Hezonja Nor has he just convinced a Mateo who has not put him on the field for more than 18 minutes in any of the five games that have been played in the Euroleague.
Low hours for Tavares
The bad moment of Madrid, which accumulates four defeats in the last six games also coincides with the lowest moment of Eddy Tavares since he is a Real Madrid player and last night he was beaten by the former Manresa Isma Bako, or with the irregular performance of a Guerschon Yabusele practically unstoppable in CBA (14.6 points per game) and tremendously vulnerable in Euroleague (8.8 points per game).
Djordjevic and Pascual, in the bedroom
The situation does not even remotely resemble the serious crisis experienced by Real Madrid in the middle of last season, but the alarms are already on in Madrid and the name of sasha djordjevic begins to appear behind the back of Chus Mateo. In addition, ‘Mark’ also points to Javier Pascual, as the favorite coach of a Juan Carlos Sánchez who was in charge of firing Laso. We are just finishing October, and the doubts, which were going to appear sooner or later, have ended up flourishing much earlier than expected.