By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Two-time EuroLeague champion with Real Madrid Pablo Laso analyzed the factors that he’ll take into consideration to decide with which team he’ll resume his career. The Spanish coach has already been contacted by Panathinaikos Athens after the Greens sacked Dejan Radonjic.
Here’s what Laso said in an interview with SergioBasket Vlogs:
“There are many things that you value. You value people. It is very important to know who works in that club, how they work, the idea of the club, what the club is. Each team has something in which you have to identify yourself. Many times it is the people, the idea, the project, the club and even the city. You have a family. I have signed players at San Sebastián and I regret it, because I thought they didn’t fit in the city. Instead, there are others that fit very well in the city. If you want an American lifestyle, that’s what Madrid is for. It’s very important. All situations have that and you have to value it. As a coach, too. The same happens to me”.
“I don’t want to rush [my decision]. It is a decision that is not easy, it is not easy. Changing jobs is not easy, not just as a coach. And, in my case, I have been lucky enough to spend eleven years on the same team. So, there is no doubt that what I would like is to get it right. What I would like is to always be in the same team because that means that they value you. I have been lucky that where I have been, they have valued me a lot and they have put up with me a lot. It is not easy to put up with a coach, we have our things. That is why I think about the importance of the project, the site and a thousand things.”
Laso has been a free agent after parting ways with Real Madrid last July due to medical reasons. Through his 11-year run with the Blancos, he won the 2015 and 2018 EuroLeague championships, along with 18 domestic trophies, including six Spanish League titles. He was named Coach of the Year in EuroLeague in 2015 and 2018.