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With Tavares and Garuba in the painting, it costs a world to score a basket at Real Madrid, like two ebony walls that close any rival option. His power and the success in time of the rest - seven triples in the final act - were the keys to the first white victory at home in what goes to Euroleague, a respite in Belgrade, although the duel was anything but relief. [60-75: Narration and statistics]

It was rather a headache until the triples broke the local resistance already in the finish line. When Rudy infected the rest not to get stuck this time, as had happened consecutively in Kaunas, Munich and Berlin.

The seriousness so often entails boredom, locked duels, where to move forward you have to cut the vegetation like in the jungle. Well in mind Madrid had its tremulous start in the Euroleague, its disconnections at home. Three defeats in a row are a problem, four, a crisis. So in Belgrade, in the return to that fetish track of the Stark Arena , it was convenient to give the chest, that extra intensity (and continuity in it) demanded by Pablo Laso. Hence the squeezes: it was not to grant a millimeter.

It mattered more the own basket than the other, not to fit than to guess. Although Jeff Taylor did not appear until the second half, Tavares was the protagonist throughout the duel , his best performance so far, obscuring Serbian attacks with plugs and more plugs. In the 15th minute, Madrid had just awarded four baskets (12 points) and step by step, because neither the success was on their side, stretched the rope, already with Garuba on the court, something that begins to stop being new. The local team reacted, but a 'coast to coast' of Llull closed a rough first half still with an advantage.

All shyness and mud remained in the locker room at rest. Especially for the Serbian side. Taylor and Carroll first appeared, but nothing scared the Red Star, emboldened by the desperate white jam from the perimeter. Now they both scored with ease, but the triples solidly rained by those of Gabrilovic, with Jimmy Baron and Simanic intoned. It was as if the Stark Arena baskets had become cursed or someone had taken them away. All the triples fell short, until accumulating a striking 3 of 22, which allowed the premises to be put forward menacingly.

It was Rudy who broke the spell, as soon as the final act began. And it did not stop raining triple, four consecutive that shot, now yes, to a Madrid that seemed freed from its shackles. It was the right spark for the first home win, despite Lorenzo Brown's efforts. The whites were only going to award eight points in the outcome, precisely where the precedents had remained stone. Tavares was a colossus, but Laso did not hesitate to keep his pearl on track. At 17, Garuba is not just one more .

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