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The 2017-18 season was a nightmare for the Joventut. The green-black team, one of the great classics of Spanish basketball, was on the verge of disappearance. Last season the waters returned in part to their channel. And right now, the team is experiencing a particularly sweet moment, has chained seven consecutive victories and has climbed to fifth place in the table . Students, a group that seems doomed to travel on that same dark path, was the great turning point. And that the historic Madrid team is part of that trio, along with Penya and Real Madrid, who has never lived in their flesh the traumatic experience of the descent.

The desperate situation that the Joventut went through is now far away in the rearview mirror. «We are among the five best teams in the ACB in terms of qualification, it is a position that we would obviously like to keep as long as possible, that would mean playing the Copa del Rey, entering the playoffs and fighting to play European competition, like last season . All this, with the losses of players that we have had, would be to be satisfied, but we need to see the whole team to have a clearer idea of ​​how far we can go, ”says Joventut president Juanan Morales .

The economy rules. Therefore, keeping the great figures is increasingly complicated, as in the case of Nicolás Laprovittola , now at Real Madrid. «You always notice the loss of a very talented player, such as Laprovittola or Todorovic , who also left us this summer. But well, we had a project that, beyond high quality players, like these two, was also based on people from the house, with great talent and maximum involvement. The fact of having maintained this cohesive core of the team has helped us overcome after the bad start of the season, in which we lost the first four games, without anyone getting nervous, ”reiterates the top black-green leader.

"It has the objective of returning to Madrid"

Klemen Prepelic, courtesy of Real Madrid and Laprovittola relay, is signing spectacular numbers. «We already knew the level of player Klemen is. He had just been a year in which he had not had much prominence with Real Madrid and that translated into a very positive situation for us, because we accessed a player of the highest quality, and for him, because he accessed a club in which I was going to be an important man . Keeping it beyond this season will not be easy, ”admits Morales. "Klemen, as he has said on several occasions, has the goal of returning to Madrid and being an important player there, and we respect that desire," adds the manager.

Competing with two teams with as much economic potential as Barcelona or Madrid is not an easy task. «We are aware of what Penya is . The Joventut is basically a training club, which gives opportunities to the talent it generates, and that is what we want to be. It would not take us more than frustration to say that this or that one has more money than us, because they compete in their own way, with their goals, and we do it to ours, and with ours. And we like our way a lot, ”says Morales.

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