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What was experienced this Sunday at the Buesa Arena was not a traditional story with its beginning, its knot and its outcome. It was rather a succession of chained micro-stories, each with its protagonist and executioner, to form a formidable anthology, a monumental basketball game that ended up carrying Real Madrid over the horn. Hardly going to see this season in Europe many meetings as formidable as the one played by whites and Baskonists. It was, each at the time, the duel of Randolph , that of Shengelia , that of Garuba , that of Janning , that of Vildoza , that of Llull and especially that of Gaby Deck , who with a step-back against Eric avoided the extension when the marker had no more figures to use. [Narration and statistics: 89-91]

There was a succession of unlikely events in the Parque del Buesa, streaks of triples that seemed endless, partial as blunt as brief, two towers of 220 centimeters each girdled in the painting, a 17-year-old boy at times mocking to the MVP of the Euroleague in progress, to the old guard of each of the two teams arriving where the newest of the place did not. A game to save with care in the video library of any Spanish basketball fan, in which the winner was almost the least.

The Baskonia seemed to enter the encounter with great force, with a mate and a triple of Shengelia that punished the poor white defense. The reaction of Madrid was four triples, three of them from Randolph, in just a minute and a half for a partial 0-12 that placed them in advantage from then until the third quarter. In total, those of Laso added five hits from the line of three in the first quarter, thus compensating for their numerous losses and their deficiencies in the offensive rebound.

Garuba Show

It gave way to the 'show' of Garuba, the only protagonist of the partial 0-9 with which Madrid welcomed the second quarter. The young Madrid talent faced a challenge as there are few in Europe, pairing with Shengelia, right now the most valued player in the entire Euroleague. And not only did he stop the Georgian in that stretch, but he also scored nine points on his face. He would suffer later, but that's normal. The strange thing is almost everything else he does with just 17 years.

Deck grabbed the relief of his young companion before a Baskonia in which only Henry seemed to be up to the task and exercised as a counterweight. That was until three triples from Campazzo , Rudy and Llull knocked down their lonely resistance and set just before the break the biggest advantage of the whole afternoon, a 33-47 that left Baskonia on the edge of the abyss, no matter how much 20 minutes left. in front.

Arreón local in the third quarter

Faced with that death that seemed inevitable, those of Perasovic rose with such vigor and explosiveness that they took Madrid to the front during the entire third quarter. 36 points fit those of Laso in that partial against a rival unleashed, with Vildoza as brain and Janning as executioner with 14 points . Baskonia went from having converted a triple of six attempts in the first two quarters to hit eight of the ten that he tested in that third magic quarter that erased at a stroke the work that Madrid had done so far.

It gave way to a final quarter of true delirium, with partials that seemed definitive and were not, interpreted by soloists who were passing the microphone between them so that who shone was basketball. Rudy opened the concert with the bass, Vildoza took over with the violin, Llull picked up the witness with the drums, Shengelia thought she had the last word and finally it was Deck who said chimpún. I wish it was never over.

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