Chus Mateo and a League for Pablo Laso

• Laso Hospitalized after suffering a heart attack

Pablo Laso

left the ICU of the Sanitas La Moraleja University Hospital on Monday and, thanks to his favorable evolution, he was transferred to the ward after the heart attack suffered hours after the second ACB semifinal match against Bitci Baskonia.

It is likely that he will soon be discharged, as his condition was still hopeful, but it is also most likely that he will not manage any more games this season.

Benches are not usually the most advisable therapy for a damaged heart.

A mental "hard stick" for a Real Madrid that this season has been going through a series of unusual misfortunes.

«The motivation is 100%, no matter how much we are touched...», raised his voice in the previous

, the man in charge of taking the reins.

The assistant, who already had to replace Laso at the end of December when he contracted covid (four wins in four games: Alba, CSKA, Armani and Murcia), expressed the feeling of a squad that rebels against misadventures and that conjures to give the League title to his coach.

«We are happy because today we can be talking about how well he is after the scare.

He is going to continue giving us war, he is our friend and we love him very much », encouraged Mateo, one of the most renowned assistants in national basketball, who has been in Madrid with the player from Vitoria since 2014.

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To do this, they will have to close the series of semi-finals that today has its third stake (9:00 pm, Let's go), the first at the Buesa Arena, and for which the Whites come, literally, in square.

have recovered and Heurtel

, who played three minutes on Saturday after two months away, hurt his ankle and is not traveling either, like

.

Joining the injured are

, so homegrown players

complete the squad.

In addition, of course, to a

who, having just turned 18, already seems like one more.

The panorama delves into the complications of an unprecedented year.

And that Real Madrid began the course with new faces and happiness.

With the Super Cup title and dominance in the ACB and Euroleague.

Until everything started to go wrong.

First, with the Covid infections in December that disrupted the squad.

The inevitable and sometimes capricious postponements of matches made his calendar suffocate just before the Cup. Later, with the serious injury of Alocén, which joined other specific ones, an unprecedented crisis in lasismo was unleashed.

And, in the middle of the losses (16 losses in 25 games), the schism with Heurtel and Thompkins.

There is no memory of an episode of similar indiscipline during Laso's more than 10 years on the bench.

No one was separated in that way and the technician never had an equal media mess.

In a year in which

lost his father and father-in-law in a few days, the coach's heart attack is the culmination of misfortunes.

The team, however, wants to use it as a springboard and erase the bad taste in the mouth of the two finals (Cup and Euroleague) lost in the last few seconds.

"It's not been an easy season, we've lost two finals and now we have to get over something even more serious, Pablo is also playing a final and he has to win it," settled Chus Mateo.

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