The captain of Surne Bilbao Basket, Jonathan Rousselle, warned his team this Thursday that he has to “wake up” and recover his “identity” afteras the last two defeats suffered, two games against Hereda San Pablo, in Burgos, and Joventut, in Miribilla, which broke their good streaks.
Before losing in Burgos, Surne Bilbao had seven consecutive victories and, before losing against Joventut, they had eight consecutive wins at the Bilbao Arena.
“We have to know who we are, that if we don’t play at the top, at the top, with everyone focused 200 percent, we have no chance against any team in this league because there are only good teams,” said the French point guard, who advocates for “waking up and, above all, being aware of who we are and what our identity is”.
“We cannot allow ourselves to think that we are more or less good in the classification, that we play more or less well and that we have talent. No. We have to show that we risk our lives in every game and show that we want more than the other team. Without that we have no choice,” he deepened.
In that sense, he recalled that, after those two defeats and still with only one victory in the Playoff, and only three victories over relegation, “of course, the first objective is salvation.”
“We have to be aware of what’s above but also what’s below”, he stressed ahead of a new game, this Saturday in Lugo against the Breogán River (8:45 p.m.) which he assumes will be “surely difficult, as always, and more being away from home”.
“Lugo is a hot field and difficult to win. We see it in the results, not many teams have won there and it is a very important challenge for us,” he commented on a team in which the men to stop are clear that they will be “( Dzanan) Musa, (Rasid) Mahalbasic and (Trae) Bell-Haynes”.
Although, likewise, he indicated that “the others also know their role and that is good for their team” and highlighted Breogán’s “confidence and his way of playing”. “He is very clear about it and we know what we are going to find,” he warned.
Rousselle, finally, He referred to the march to play a category far from the elite in France of his compatriot Valentin Bigote, “an important player for us”, whose loss “cannot be alleviated in one or two weeks”.
“Understanding or not his departure is something personal, but it is his decision and we have to respect it and continue. Because we can no longer think that he is not there,” settled the captain of ‘the men in black’.
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