In the second semi-final Caja Laboral meets Real Madrid.Caja Laboral beat his opponent in quaterfinal with result 2-0, while Real Madrid had a problem with excellent and dangerous Cajasolom. Fernando Buesa Arena will probably be filled to the last place to help local players in this battle.Coach Dusko Ivanovic was able to bring the Caja Laboral in good shape at the right time, and it is very important fact.Real Madrid was not convincing and Real Madrid coach Ettore Messina certainly could not fix all the pieces in play of his team.Caja Laboral at the playoff stage,was scoring an average of 88.5 points and they received 79.5 points.Also they had the most shots out of line for three points (65/29) - played in two games, while the Real Madrid in three games had even 72 attempts ( successful only 23 ). San Emeterio showed good games but Mirza Teletovic gave the most points- in the past two games he had average 17 points.Tiago Spilitter is of course the main rebounder in Caja Laboral with 7.5 rebounds per game.
Real Madrid shown serious flaws in the game and it's not good sign.Very large oscillations in the game is not characteristic of great teams with deep bench.A lot of stars in the little room was not successful in team play.Missing of Hensena Travis and Kaukenas is a very visible . Positive progress was made by Lois Bullok because he was in bad shape before playoff.With an average of 12 points per game he scored and most points among players of Real Madrida.Reyes was good in the high jump with an average of 6.67 rebounds per game.
In this match a lot of indicators are on the side of the host - Caja Laboral.But Real Madrid is a team not for underestimateing. Real Madrid had an first warning that victory will not come alone but they need to win.Caja Laboral in front of home crowd had only 1 loss in the season so Real Madrid must change something in the game if thay want to win against strong host.