• Chronicle: Madrid always eclipses the stellar project of Barcelona
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The league snack has been good: the home team wins, whose only two reinforcements, Nico Laprovittola and Jordan Mickey , corroborate the qualities that are known to them, Barcelona shows that theirs are of an even higher level than the Real Madrid players but must be together to become a true team, a task that Svetislav Pesic did not quite achieve with his predecessors of the previous season, which were not much inferior, and the vibration of this sport continues immediately after the World Cup.

The negative note could not be missing, and every game we see in FIBA ​​basketball shows the true circus, sometimes grotesque, that has become the arbitral interpretation of unsportsmanlike fouls, which were not intended to sanction accidental hooks under the hoops . But, at least, this time the referees did not decide the outcome of a Madrid-Barça.

Little else can be said of a glorified preseason tournament. That pending cohesion is Barça's challenge, in which Niko Mirotic has debuted under the boos and with a correct but not stellar game. As for Madrid, it raises some doubt the choice of Mickey as a substitute for Gustavo Ayón : excellent without a doubt as 'four', with its scarce 203 centimeters, despite its great reputation as a plugger, the American can be very useful against certain rivals but will suffer against the rivals of greater stature in the low post.

There Barcelona has one of its best hopes of surpassing the whites in the League and in Europe: it is called Brandon Davies , and it seems so far the most important of its millionaire signings. He made the two local 'fives' suffer and charged personal faults: Edy Tavares , for speed; to Mickey, for stature and brute force.

For the next few weeks you can fear a more difficult start for Madrid, the most punished by the World Cup because five of his essential men leave an exhausting summer and now they must have a little break in training and play because they have joined two very long seasons . The availability of 14 or 15 players will be more important than ever in 2019-20.

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