Madrid has no time to think about the worst crisis in 20 years

This Tuesday’s defeat at Buesa Arena shows that Real Madrid are far from their best level in many aspects and are currently facing what may be their worst playing and management crisis in years. This proves that.

person Chas Mateo They suffered their third loss of the season against Vitoria on Tuesday, but suffered another setback at home, leaving their away win total at zero. And after years of dominance and stability both in domestic competitions and in the European basketball world, the situation in the “White House” appears to be at an impasse, and there is no reason to believe that There is no shortage of them.

Even though the season has only just begun, the noise starts to rise by the decibels, which often happens when conditions are bad. And the lack of seniority and wardrobe, in addition to injuries being uncontrollable factors, calls into question the coach’s management. The coach continues to look for an official to get all the pieces in the locker room, but the nerves seem to be picking up on a few things.

5 defeats to consider

The season started with a victory over Barça in the semi-finals of the ACB Super Cup, but the Madrid team lost their first title of the season against the Unicaja team and will find it difficult to win the Endesa League again. This season. But the defeat didn’t end there, two more were defeated next. First, Leima Coruña surprised us with an unusual victory almost at the buzzer in his ACB debut against Madrid, but then Chus Mateo’s team lost away to Bayern.

However, in the last game against Bilbao Basket and Baskonia, Madrid have already lost five of their last eight competitive matches.losing titles along the way, in contrast to the regularity of recent campaigns. And since the 2003/04 season, Los Blancos have never started with a negative balance.The record is 1 win and 2 losses. Alarm bells are ringing in the Tokyo metropolitan area over the strange and atypical situation, and there is widespread uproar in some parts of the country.

Up until now, Real Madrid’s games have been characterized by irregular and spurts in both offense and defense. It was effective against Casademont Zaragoza and the Partizans, but not against other teams. Coach Chus Mateo has called for patience to get back on track, but the losses of Ousmane Garba and the recent Andres Feliz have reduced Los Blancos’ rotation to the point where they are almost maxed out at their best players.

The rotation becomes shorter and the effect becomes less and less

Madrid have suffered several casualties this summer, including two retired players, Rudy Fernandes and Sergio Rodríguez, two players who made the white team more competitive, and Roker. This also includes room leaders. Other related players who have said goodbye to Real Madrid include Vincent Poirier to Efes, Carlos Arocen to Gran Canaria, Fabian Kosuur to Armani Milano and finally Gersson Jabusele to the last few on the market. Going to the NBA in a week. The Merengue team responded by renewing the contracts of some of the team’s pillars, such as Tavares, Moussa and Hezonja, and signing Garba, Ibaka, Feliz or Xavier Lassan Mays.

With Yabusele’s departure, Real Madrid was considering Davis Bertans to strengthen the “4” position, but in the end they started the season without being able to move up the position. Shortly after, Andres Feliz was sidelined for more than a month, forcing a rethink of the rotation, with Laythan-Mayes taking over as ‘1’ and Sergio Llull playing more minutes. After Campazzo was suspended for the game in Vitoria, it was clear that these problems in management and mid-court play had become apparent and that the manager would have to work hard to find a solution. Similarly, the problem extends to the inside game, with Serge Ibaka intermittently early in the season and Tavares looking pretty gray.

Is Chus Mateo in danger?

Mario Hezonja’s words to the Movistar Plus bus at half-time against Bilbao Basket were already a clear sign that Madrid’s dressing room was not having its best moments. . “We got off to a good start, but (Thus) changed us and we can’t pick up the pace with the new players. If we want to do anything this year, we’re going to have to sweat a lot. .”declared the Croatian forward, pointing at his coach.

And despite the quality of the team, Madrid are currently going through a rather difficult period, and are in their lowest form since Chus Mateo took charge of the white team. A string of poor results doesn’t help alleviate the reality that Madrid are far from their best game, but the calendar doesn’t give them any respite to think about the crisis. And this Thursday, reigning European champions Elgin Ataman’s Panathinaikos are scheduled to visit Wisink. The purpose is to dig into the wounds of a coach whose problems are growing. It will be a very difficult test to see if the Madrid coach has the ability (or not) to turn things around.