The Movistar Students took advantage of the derby to present their new kit. A multicolored fantasy to match the decoration that urban artist Okuda has made in Magariños under the slogan 'Feel the kolores'. Nice for the summer, not so much for a game, but for tastes ... That, colors. And if you talk about basketball, there was only one color. Real Madrid won with authority a derby that was already sentenced to the second quarter (72-87) and remains as the solo leader of the Endesa League thanks to the defeat of Barça against the surprising Bilbao Basket (92-94).

The duel underlined the distance that separates the two teams from the capital. In the classification, where some are leaders and others, colistas. In staff, where neither the casualties of Rudy Fernández, Anthony Randolph, Sergio Llull or Gabriel Deck put behind the whites. And at stake. Some, greased. Others, at times even without soul, mortal sin when what is at stake is no longer a derby, but permanence.

Few Estu players seem to understand the emergence of the team, which closes the first round with only four victories in 17 games. The schoolboys only endured an assault face to face. On the second, Real Madrid fell on them: a 31-11 partial in which the overwhelming success was so important (7/8 in triples) as the difference (another one) in defense intensity.

The biggest if possible was that triple post formed by Trey Thompkins, Jordan Mickey and Edy Tavares . The reborn Thompkins continues to fill the deficit of points that leave the losses of Randolph and Llull. Only in the first part he unloaded 17. From Mickey, top scorer with 20 points, it is often forgotten that, although he measures what an eave (2.03), has a pivot wingspan (2.20) and there is no ball that does not reach; and the impact of Tavares speaks more all those shots that never get done for fear.

Students only threw Kenny Kadji (19), Juan Palacios and a newcomer, Aleksa Avramovic . Little, almost nothing, to get out of that 25-point hole where it came to be. If it was not deeper, it was not for an improvement, but because Real Madrid dosed efforts and distributed breaks thinking about the visit next Thursday to CSKA in Moscow, or perhaps in the extra wear that is assuming weathering the casualties. The next one, by the way, may be that of Jaycee Carroll, who went straight to the locker room with a sprained ankle.

And in spite of everything, for the Students perhaps the most worrying thing was not the defeat, not even the place of colista, but the image of arms lowered in the second part. And while facing a Real Madrid who had the pleasure of finishing the game with three teenagers on the court: Usman Garuba, Mario Nakic and a debutant, Boris Tisma .

The bell of the Bilbao Basket

Retabet Bilbao Basket gave the double bell on Sunday: not only did it attack Barça at the Palau (92-94), but thanks to that victory it managed to qualify for the Copa del Rey in its year back to the Endesa League. A basket of Jonathan Rousselle at 19.5 seconds to go and two free throws by Rafa Martínez sealed the feat. The defeat of the Pesic team, the second at home in three days, also leaves the leadership alone in the hands of Real Madrid.

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