Brave Heart: Pablo Lasso's Season | Israel today

36 times Real Madrid has won the Spanish championship, but yesterday it was one of the most exciting and big.

The club accustomed to the titles has this time won an extraordinary one at the center of which is coach Pablo Lasso, the man of the year in European basketball.

Not for nothing was the championship ceremony a rare event.

Captain Sergio Yui received the championship trophy gave it to Lasso, moved aside and the coach swung it.

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Lasso himself was in the locker room until the last minute, and only when it was clear that the title was in hand did he go out on the field: "I had a hard time swinging," he said, "the trophy is very heavy."

It is possible to make a film about the story of the team and the coach this season.

Lasso is responsible for one of the big comebacks that have been this season, and could not finish the season on the lines because he had a heart attack.

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He did not take part in the final series, but was present there.

He is responsible for the dramatic change and the end of the big season.

From a finished team about two and a half months ago, Real reached the Euroleague final and the Spanish championship.

Lasso himself became during this period from a coach who seemed to have his horse at the club over, to a kind of legend in Spanish and European basketball.

Lasso has had a lot of crises in his 11 seasons at Blancos, but everyone thought he would not come out of that crisis.

Real entered a terrible period during the season, during which it was difficult to win games and broke negative records.

Maccabi Tel Aviv, which beat Real in the Euroleague playoffs, thought it had won the lottery.

In practice, the series against Maccabi was the beginning of the team's incredible exit from the crisis - and the end of a great season.

epa09964138 Real Madrid's Adam Hanga reacts after losing the Euroleague Basketball final match between Real Madrid and Anadolu Efes in Belgrade, Serbia, 21 May 2022. EPA / ANDREJ CUKIC, Photo: EPA

Lasso.

He did not seem to emerge from the crisis, Photo: EPA

The change was 180 degrees, Real have hardly lost from then until the end of the season.

She was one basket away from winning the Euroleague, and won the championship with a 1: 8 balance in the playoffs.

Barcelona, ​​who beat Real 5 times in the first part of the season, lost to them in the money of the league and the Spanish playoffs - 4 times, and beat them only once and that too was hardly.

It was not just a championship, it was a style championship.

The turnaround in ability was dramatic and Real's basketball was deadly again.

Although the problems did not leave her on the road, with season-ending injuries to Nigel Williams Goss and Anthony Randolph, and more injuries during the playoffs of Alberto Abelada and Sergio Yui, and of course Lasso's heart attack at the end of the semi-final series against Basconia.

Lasso.

Dramatic upheaval during the season, Photo: AFP

Nothing got the team out of the way because Lasso's basics and method allowed her to run on an automaton and no downside could hurt her.

Two notable examples characterize the matter: three coordinators opened the season at Real - Goss (who was injured), Carlos Allussen (who was injured and finished a season before) and Thomas Hartel (who was suspended and did not play in the last part of the season).

The team reached the last part of the season without any player in position number 1.

Lasso taught everyone how to play without a coordinator, or you could say redesigned the role.

Yui, Fabian Kozer, Adam Hanga, Abelda and sometimes even Gabriel Dek, led a ball and helped each in his own way to close the hole in that position.

The second example is Adam Hanga.

The Real coach has shown how a mediocre second guard can be turned into an excellent all-around guard, providing a great end to a season.

Hanga.

One of the great stories of Real's season, Photo: EPA

Whoever appeared during the season as a "former coach" reinvented himself.

And even though the heart betrayed him at some point, he will open his 12th season at a club stronger than ever.

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