Chus Mateo: 'The team is fired up and looking forward to the playoff tie.'
'Gran Canaria are going to take us to the wire and we have to be ready to win the game at the right time,' explained the coach about the first quarter-final of the league playoffs.
Real Madrid coach Chus Mateo spoke ahead of Real Madrid's game against Gran Canaria at the WiZink Center, the first of the league quarter-finals 12:30 pm CEST: "It's not going to be easy. Gran Canaria is going to take us to the wire and we have to be patient enough to be ready to win the game at the right time. We want to offer our fans an attractive game to watch."
"The team is excited and eager to play in the playoffs. We go into it with the satisfaction of having achieved one of our objectives for the year. We set out to do our best in everything we were to compete in and we've won the Super Cup and the Euroleague. We still have a shot at the league and we are going to give our all. The best way to do it is to take it one game at a time and go for the win."
"The team is excited and eager to play in the playoffs. We go into it with the satisfaction of having achieved one of our objectives for the year. We set out to do our best in everything we were to compete in and we've won the Super Cup and the Euroleague. We still have a shot at the league and we are going to give our all. The best way to do it is to take it one game at a time and go for the win."