“We are a team that has a lot of self-esteem and a lot of responsibility”

The first thing Lezkano did was praise the public, who gave themselves to the cause yesterday, for their help in winning the match: “It has helped us in difficult moments, which we have had, it is a joy to play here.” He didn’t hide what he thought of the staging of his team either: “The start of the game was horrible, we did everything we didn’t have to do”. What the Pumarín team has been capable of is staying hooked on the duel: “The team has stayed alive thanks to the second quarter and, above all, the third.”

The only thing the Blues had left over after the break, according to their coach, was the last quarter: “In the third quarter we controlled, we did things well, we were more aggressive defensively, but in the last quarter we made incomprehensible mistakes that almost cost us the match”.

What Lezkano did want to highlight about his players was their honesty: “We’re not mugs who get carried away when things go against the scoreboard.” For the Basque coach, his team is “a team that has a lot of dignity, a team with responsibility and self-respect”. A group of “soldiers”, as Marc Martí said on his Twitter account after the match. The player, injured all season, was the happiest man in the world after the match and, probably, the one who had suffered the most with the alternatives on the scoreboard of the match.