“Heurtel and Thompkins have never been out of the team”

The Real Madrid Basketball he won again six games later. After five consecutive defeats, between the Endesa League and the Euroleaguethe whites won by fifteen points against Breogán River. Once the domestic championship match is over, Paul Lasso attended to the media.

It was at a press conference when he was asked about Heurtel y Thompkins. The merengue coach has ensured that “they are not out of the team.” They are not isolated, but “they are doing a specific job.” But he thinks about reincorporating the two players, especially after seeing how they have gone to the WiZink Center to support their peers.

“Thomas Heurtel and Trey Thompkins have never been out of the team. They are doing specific work and it doesn’t mean anything that they came to the game. They are working out of the team and in that sense I don’t have much more to say. We will see when we reincorporate them if they will return to play or not, but there’s no doubt that they haven’t been out of the team. They’ve been training with a specific job and I’m glad they came to the game today and supported their teammates”, Pablo Laso began by saying He also referred to other players on the squad.

“Training they have always trained with the team. For me they are in the team, it has no greater history. I understand that you ask me a lot about this but they have never been on the sidelines. They have done a specific job like other players do, today for example Taylor has I’ve done a specific job since he couldn’t play and I hope to get him back. That feeling that everyone has to do the work that in the case of Thomas and Trey is probably clearer because you haven’t seen them in the last few games. I hope they join and join the team and make us stronger, that’s the only thing that interests me. No, they’re not injured”, added the Basque coach.

Before this, it had been Laso himself who ensured that both Heurtel and Thompkins were out: “The thing with Heurtel and Trey is my decision. My obligation as a coach is to identify the problem. The two players no longer train with the team and it’s a technical decision. The decision on Thompkins and Heurtel not to return to the team is final.”

After the bombing, from Greece it was reported that if Pablo Laso had decided to separate both players it was because they had gone out partying for Athens before playing the match between Real Madrid Basketball and Panathinaikos. However, now it is the merengue coach himself who does not rule out that both return to group dynamics.

match analysis

Regarding the victory, the coach commented the following: “We came from bad results and for us it was important to recover the feeling of the team. We have made some mistakes but we have solved it as a team, both in attack and defense. In general terms We moved the ball well. I have the feeling that we played a complete game in many aspects that are important to us”.

“We say goodbye to a bad run. When you lose games you want to win. The best thing is that the scoreboard shows off the team’s work. It helps the players to believe in what they do”, continued Laso, who is already looking at the Maccabi: “If my players are not motivated to play a playoff that gives access to the Final Four of the Euroleague, then I would be disappointed. It is very difficult to get to play this and you can ask those who have not made it”.

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