Chus Mateo: We are a proud team, with character, and we showed that

Real Madrid coach Chus Mateo commented on the success in game 3 over Barcelona, which earned them access to the ACB finals: ‘We played a good series and today we played a good game, an intelligent game. We kept our nerves in the difficult moment when Barcelona took the lead. We were smart and took advantage of the pressure they would probably have felt thinking they could be out’.

‘We are a proud team, with character, and we showed that,’ he said.

‘It’s not easy with the schedule we have, but we managed to keep a very high tempo throughout the year, which is very difficult.’