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Real Madrid returned to the good path in the Euroleague with a victory over Alba Berlin by Aíto García Reneses (85-71). A two-sided victory: that of the team that can be dominant from the defense and aggressive to the race, and the one that is still at this beginning of the course, an irregular team that has a hard time offering 40 minutes of continuous effort. Against Alba he found himself on time and with a quintet formed by Llull, Rudy, Deck, Tavares and the teenager Garuba scratched the victory in the last quarter.
Pablo Laso grabbed the intensity of those five players to frighten the collapse in which his team had fallen. During the first five minutes of the last quarter, he did not move the bench while he saw that income that had collapsed grow again. With Rudy Fernández as captain general in defense and Edy Tavares giving that intimidation that they had missed so much in the last games.
The giant of Cape Verde was not going through its best moment. His balance in the three straight losses in Euroleague was two points and seven personal fouls. What the Alba Berlin suffered is more similar to what it usually brings: 11 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks and so many moves in which the opponent changed his mind when he saw that pivot of 2.21 coming over. So obvious, but absent in the last three games.
Pablo Laso repeated the slogan whenever he could: defend, bounce, run. Three things that Real Madrid had not done in the three defeats. Three things in which each one depends on the previous one and if the first one fails they all fail. And what if the defense had failed: until this match, they were the second worst defense in the Euroleague, only above Valencia Basket.
Campazzo also said it when asked about the keys. "Attack from the defense." If they defended well and if they secured the rebound, they would find an open track to run. With the clear duties, he left in tromba: 13-2 of beginning with 10 points of Anthony Randolph. 28-14 in the first quarter, with 5/7 in triples and 7 forced losses that turned into 13 points. 'Easy' baskets, another one of so many things that were missing.
What can be and what still is. Because he still has moments of blockage, in which the defense stops being awake and the attack is not fluid. Of course, not in the hands of Laprovittola , which is struggling to adapt. He left five minutes in the second quarter, lost three balls and did not return to the game. Nor had he played in two of the last three in Euroleague. It will need time.
And the Alba, tacita a tacita, was shrinking water and even got ahead in the final stretch of the third quarter. 53-55. Until Llull returned. And Garuba. And Rudy And with the Mallorcan carrying the flag in defense, the Menorcan lighting the attack and the Manchego forgetting that he is 17 years old and two days ago he debuted in the Euroleague, Real Madrid returned to the game to save the victory.
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