Real Madrid left the quagmire that way. He won after three defeats at the Palace, but far from regained sensations. In a duel locked and thick, the Baskonia again revealed the white doubts, although this time it did not come to get his way in an end as ineffable as they had been all the previous minutes. A rude error by Stauskas when everything seemed aimed at the extension condemned the Vitorians. Ivanovic's anger was anthological. [70-69: Narration and statistics]

Because despite the efforts and offensive prominence of Thompkins (20 points) and Campazzo (11 assists), Madrid did not get rid of Baskonia all night. He felt his breath permanently in the neck, among other things because between Llull (terrible his night) , Rudy and Randolph did not hit any of the 13 triples tried (six of 26 in total). And that is not very normal. In the agonizing outcome, when Shields seemed to send everything to overtime, Staukas overwhelmed Campazzo without any logic, as there were barely a couple of seconds left. The Argentine decided with a free kick.

Obviously, Real Madrid carried everything that happened recently in the backpack. For bad and for good. The impetus of the one who wants to wake up from his nightmare; the impatience and anxiety -Llull was the most obvious face of this, with the run run of the stands in each of his mistakes- from whom he comes to collect five losses in the last eight appointments , the last one last Sunday against the Joventut That was Laso's touch of attention. The encasquilladas dolls, the troubled attacks, the precipitated defenses. All before an opponent in full reinvention, with little to lose more: plagued with injuries and new faces, sunk in the Euroleague table, but with the threat of who won at the Palace a few days ago stating 95 points without complexes.

Christon's talent

Madrid, at times, was a love and not power. It linked several positive actions and soon ruined them. Psychoanalysis and it is not the best time of the season for those tribulations, with the Cup just around the corner . Deck, Thompkins and Rudy encouraged the team in the second act, but Baskonia always had three times per response, especially deadly Matt Janning.

The discomfort had to be shaken in some way. Fly over the lack of precision, scare ghosts in the absence of rhythm, the search for the open field, which is the white manna. Campazzo played a roundup around the changing room and Gaby Deck followed without hesitation. Many of the keys of Real Madrid go through today for the Argentine couple. What a contrast to the third compatriot, a Laprovittola of fallen layer , yesterday even among the 12 chosen by Laso.

But Baskonia, despite everything, even with two newcomers with total prominence, is a hard nut to crack. He wasn't going to give up so easy. The party was seized with the appearance of Semaj Christon , the talented American base signed to alleviate the plague of injuries at the base post (Granger, Vildoza and now Henry). When he committed the fifth, it seemed the end. Thompkins already seemed unleashed, but the life of the Vitorians was subtracted. Way to touch the feat again, until Staukas, a guy who comes from the NBA, decided that he had not heard anything.

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