Real Madrid head coach addresses final play in loss to Anadolu Efes in EuroLeague Championship Game

Reporting from Belgrade

Real Madrid lost to Anadolu Efes in the EuroLeague Championship Game (57-58) and Pablo Laso addressed the final play.

The “Whites” decided not to foul even though they trailed by one in the final seconds. As a result, they missed the chance to have the final say in the game.

After the game, the head coach of Real Madrid said his team should have fouled Vasilije Micic in the final possession.

“We were 1 point down and it was a difficult thing to decide. It’s true that now, when you lose, the easy thing is that we should have fouled.

But I thought that with the time remaining, more than 3 seconds, we could have defended and got the last possession. We didn’t get a clean rebound and we couldn’t attack.

They played very smart that possession, they got a three, they missed it, but we couldn’t get a clean rebound.

If you ask me now should we have fouled, we should have fouled. But I don’t know what would have happened,” Laso told media, including Hedgeout.net, afterwards.

Following its defeat to Efes on Saturday, Real Madrid missed the chance to become EuroLeague champions for an 11th time.

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