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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Carlos Cabezas- UnicajaWe are all excited to be on our way to Athens. The mood on the team right now is very relaxed. We know that we have a semifinal that's going to be very difficult, very complicated. CSKA has a variety of very important players at every position. They will all be difficult and we have to be at our best against all of them, so I wouldn't talk about one player or another. They are all good. The one highlight you can say about CSKA is the defense. They are famous for that. But we think we play pretty good defense, too, and that's what we are working on, too. If our defense is good, we will have our options. If we can play good defense and get to the final quarter with the score as close as possible, I think the pressure will then be increasing on CSKA. This is a one-shot elimination game, and we all know from experience that a lot of things can happen. The key for us is to simply play our best, because even with our injuries, if we do that, we will be where we want to be, competing with the champions for the entire game. At the end, anything can happen.

Of course, we have not seen CSKA this year, but last year they were champions, too, and in the two games we played, they won at home and we won at home. That's just to say that we are not thinking of them as an unbeatable team for any reason. Last year's games don't matter now, of course, but we go into any game with high hopes and expectations. Any player loves this kind of challenge. If we had won a few with them in the past and they won a few with us, it's something that you might remember, but now it's the moment that counts. And I can assure you that all of us who will go on the court in Athens will be... more
POSTED BY Carlos Cabezas - Malaga, Spain
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Carlos Cabezas - Unicaja Let me tell you about the mood in Malaga after we made the Final Four. People are really excited! It was a dream come true for a lot of people around here, not just the players and the club, but the fans who have been supporting us for such a long time. Maybe for people waiting for a reason to visit Athens, too! We're bringing with us our own "marea verde": that's "green wave" in Spanish. I know that Panathinaikos will have a lot of its own green fans there, but I know that when we see our own, coming all the way there from Spain, it will be an inspiration for us. Right now I think there are more than 700 fans from Malaga going, and one thing I know is that they are going to enjoy themselves. They were a big part of helping us just make the Top 16 after a tough regular season and they pumped us up in the rounds after that so we won everything at home and made it this far. They deserve a great weekend in Athens, and even though we have to go against the current champions, we plan to do everything to make them happy.

Some of the people who are traveling with us are our families. Almost all of the players are bringing some people, at the very least their wives or girlfriends. We'll be arriving two days before the game, so they can have extra time to see the beautiful city of Athens. The Final Four is... more
POSTED BY Carlos Cabezas - Malaga, Spain
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Carlos Cabezas - Unicaja Hey everyone, it's been awhile since I last blogged, and some interesting things have happened. Some funny ones, too, like me getting locked in our locker room at halftime of a Spanish League game in Vitoria against Tau Ceramica. Here's another: My hometown of Marbella, Spain, put me in their walk of fame! They had a ceremony for me and put me right there alongside Antonio Banderas the actor and Julio Iglesias the singer. I'm almost goin' Hollywood! I can't act nor sing much, but if I can help bring Unicaja to the Final Four, who knows? Maybe I'll be singing all the way to Athens! Of course, it doesn't get more interesting than the last playoff game of the Euroleague, do or die, with the chance to reach the Final Four. I have played in some special games before, but this one on Thursday against Barca is very, very special for me personally, because it's the the first time I have a chance to make the Final Four, which is a dream for any player in Europe and certainly one of my biggest ones, too. After having won most of the other trophies I have played for until now, the chance to win the Euroleague trophy is the biggest one missing for me. To have that chance, we have to win on Thursday. We had the chance in Barcelona last week, too, but the difference now is that we will be on our own floor in Malaga. I have played... more
POSTED BY Carlos Cabezas - Malaga
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Carlos Cabezas - Unicaja Well, this is what it's all about. We have two games left to prove that we belong in the Top 16. A lot of people ask me how the same team can lose to Olimpija in Ljubljana by almost 30 points one week and be the first to beat Panathinaikos the next. There's no good answer, but that's the wave we have been riding all season. We have been very unpredictable, to say the least. We can play magnificently in some games and then turn around and do as bad as we did in Ljubljana or against Joventut earlier in the season. You'd have to say it's a matter of either going out concentrated and staying that way, or in the bad games, getting down and letting the score get completely away from us. In other words, it's the mental aspect that has been going up and down. When we are concentrating, we can certainly beat anyone, as we showed by defeating Barcelona in the Spanish League and then Panathinaikos last week. That says a lot about what we are capable of doing. We are all fighting to make sure everything comes together when we need it in these next two games, against Lottomatica Roma tomorrow and next week against Partizan in Belgrade. Now is the time, that's for sure.

We are optimistic, of course. I always am. But we also keep a lot of respect for the other teams, even... more
POSTED BY Carlos Cabezas - Malaga, Spain
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