El Real Madridtied for the lead with Barcelona y Cazoo Baskoniamaintains the leadership of the Endesa League for the best general average, and is second in the Euroleague behind the Olympiakos in the absence of five days for the end of the regular phase. In qualifying terms the season for the whites has been satisfactory to date, but his game keeps throwing some shadows before the decisive phase begins. They are also leaders in doubts.
The indisputable individual quality of its players allows him to get most of his games with solvency, especially in the League, where only Barcelona, Baskonia y Zaragoza they were able to defeat him. And his numbers, in general terms, support his good progress: valuation leader (106,96), rebounds (39,26), free shots (16,78), fouls received (21,35) y mates (3.83). Also, he is second in annotation (87,74) y stoppers (4.43), and third in triples (37,02%).
One of the worst in fouls and ball steals
But all that glitters is not gold your stats, which also reveal some of the weak points of his game. They are the ones who question his defensive effort, his concentration and his offensive anarchy. Real Madrid is the sixteenth team in the League in recoveries (9.1). Only workshop (7,8) y youth (7.7) accumulate fewer ball steals. And even worse for your reputation is being the Penultimate team that commits the fewest fouls (18.3), just ahead of the Girona (18,2). It’s as if they don’t need to lower their ass back when they see themselves in excess of their talent.
And that sufficiency is what often leads them to depleting possessions to the limit of time by each making war for himself. then emerge anarchic and rash attacks that accentuate their losses, another of their hindrances. Is he ninth team that loses the most balls in the League (13.2).
Those scourges persecute you in the Euroleague, where its incidence penalizes it even more when measured against much stronger rivals. Is rebounding leader (37,1) and plugs (4.2), second in valuation (100.8) and points (84.8) and third in two shots (21,2) y free shots (16,2).
His defensive effort screeches
In the Euroleagueas in the domestic competition, also his defensive effort screeches. In fact, Madrid is the seventeenth in recoveries (5,9). only the Zalgiri (5.8) steals fewer balls than the whites, who are also the eleventh that commit fewer faults (20.6) and the third parties averaging more losses (13,4). only the Alba Berlin (14.8) and Virtus Bologna (14.7) show more losses than them. It is a hindrance to his game.
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The efforts of Chus Mateo to minimize these deficiencies are not bearing fruit for now, which sometimes leads him to get irritated during some matchesin which he reproaches his team for its exasperating offensive anarchy and a lax defense that is losing intensity in the same play. This is how he made his pupils know in a dead time during the defeat against him Baskoniawho endorsed them 56 points in the second part: “Let’s see if we do a fucking complete defense and an organized attack, not to see what comes out”he threw at them angrily.
When you have anxiety you want to solve without much criteria and with more heart than head
Such situations show that Mateo’s orders are clearand also that his pupils often turn a deaf ear to them. Lack of authority? Self-management? And that later the coach stands up for them in the press conferences: “When you have anxiety you want to solve without much criteria and with more heart than head”he said after losing to Baskonia to justify Madrid’s catastrophic end to the game.
