Pablo Laso uses a very accurate expression to talk about Usman Garuba: "Basketball falls." It seems that bounces fall on his hands. That the ball always passes through its area. To explain it, the Vitorian coach pulls the proverb: 'To him who walks, it happens'. And when Garuba is on the track, many things happen to him. About to turn 18, Alcarreño begins to accumulate a good sheet of decisive services. The last, to add the seventh victory followed in the Euroleague against ASVEL Villeurbanne (87-78). [Narration and statistics]

Garuba's game is summed up in two moments. The first, leaving obfuscated to the bench after a race of those silly mistakes that reveal age. Shaking his head and hiding the anger in the towel. The second, crushing the hoop and taking out biceps. Helping Real Madrid straighten a strange game.

Because it was one of those rare nights when things don't end up going out. What else being the third game in five days of that crazy calendar that has left the extension of the Euroleague. Scoring well of three (10/23), but yielding too much in the paint. Delivering 20 assists, but losing 16 balls. And in that tug of war, that spoiler and with the legs loaded, the ASVEL climbed to the beards.

With the duties of the Euroleague still on the table (after the ticket for the playoffs is to ensure the court factor), Laso put in the initial quintet two teenagers, Garuba and Nakic. None stood out in a gray boot, but while Garuba had the option of recovering in the second half, Nakic would not re-enter the game. Not everyone can go at the same speed as Alcarreño.

Bounce and defense

On a very uninspired night, Real Madrid managed to grab the game based on a good job in the rebound, an improvement in defense and scoring shots by Carroll (19), Causeur (15) and the impulses of Rudy Fernández , Tavares and Laprovittola For not being at all, Campazzo was almost not, inspired in the last month, but which the French defense managed to get out of point by pressing very closely the boat, forcing it to go to the left.

Only in the last quarter Real Madrid could conjure the efforts and control an ASVEL fighter, a combination of warriors like Kahudi , Jean-Charles or Yabusele with young people with projection such as Theo Maledon (12 points) or Strazel (11). Only there Tavares finally managed to impose his law and Garuba, in full collective flood, began to happen things. A two plus one, a triple or a mate to track the seventh victory.

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