{"id":13492,"date":"2021-03-08T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/team-liquid-coach-jatt-interview-good-chance-msi"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:04:11","slug":"team-liquid-coach-jatt-interview-good-chance-msi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/team-liquid-coach-jatt-interview-good-chance-msi","title":{"rendered":"Team Liquid coach Jatt: \u201cI still think we have a really good chance of being the MSI representatives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s been almost a year since Joshua “Jatt” Leesman became head coach for Team Liquid, and so far, things have been going pretty well. <\/p>\n
They began the year picking up Lucas “Santorin” Tao Kilmer Larsen from FlyQuest and Barney “Alphari” Morris from the LEC, and though visa issues delayed Santorin’s return to LA<\/a>, the team won the first ever LCS Lock In tournament in a nail-biting 3-2 series against Cloud9. <\/p>\n The short spring split hasn’t been as kind, but Team Liquid have been fighting their way up the ladder and still look strong before the Mid-Season Showdown<\/a>, which will determine which team will represent NA at MSI in Iceland this year.<\/p>\n During Week 5 of the LCS Spring Split 2021, Jatt speaks about trying to reach MSI and their loss against Counter Logic Gaming. <\/p>\n I think, maybe this is a lame answer, but we played poorly and they played well. I think there’s always a danger of… it’s like a sports trope, right? The trap game or the letdown game, and we had a big high with our win against Cloud9 yesterday. We definitely, I think, let our guard down a little bit and we just didn’t play sharp. <\/p>\n We were slow in a lot of our communications around if we should or should not fight, and that ended up giving CLG a lot of kills in the mid game, and then they played well to punish and close it out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don’t think anything is a quick fix, but I also think that we have been a fairly strong early game team for sure. I think there have just been some issues with our cohesion around how we play out the mid and late game. That is kind of natural when you look at the stats of it all, but I also do think that there is a lot of game-to-game variance in the regular season. <\/p>\n So I don’t think people should read too much into the records and I think, notwithstanding the CLG game, I think we can still be a very strong team in the future.<\/p>\n\n
Jatt has been Team Liquid’s head coach since last year (Picture: Riot Games) <\/span><\/p>\nThis was a weird loss against CLG because you guys were pretty strong in the beginning. Based on your initial reactions, what do you think went wrong?<\/h3>\n
Team Liquid is now 9-6 with just one week left in the split. What do you think the strengths and weaknesses have been within the team? Do you think any weaknesses are quick fixes that will just take some time to correct, or do you think there’s something underneath?<\/h3>\n
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