Heroics rarely have a prize in this highly polarized basketball, where they almost always win, where surprises are scarce like gold nuggets in a river bed. San Pablo Burgos did it, defeating a Real Madrid for the first time in its history, jumping the bench of this Final Phase to turn everything upside down. A Saturday afternoon to remember, where Joan Peñarroya confirmed all suspicions: he is an extraordinary coach. [87-83: Narration and statistics]

It was not just any mistake for Madrid, now entangled in La Fonteta, almost forced to beat the host on Monday if he wants to be in the semifinals on Sunday. Pablo Laso's group paid for their sins, without soul or courage, surpassed by the rival's lesson of enthusiasm and concentration. Burgos swiped him, flying with two wins in Valencia , the rebound despite not having giants dressed in blue. And, from there, he posed a battle without complexes, deactivating one by one the white, somewhat desperate bastards. The absurd ending was the deserved punishment.

Burgos managed to make the after-game indigestible for Real Madrid, uncomfortable in La Fonteta as a nap with flies, despite another thunderous start (2-12), which quickly came to nothing with the Castilian reaction (16-2 lap ), while Laso was scolding: "The concentration does not last even two minutes!" . It was going to be the keynote.

The blue heat shrunk the favorite, in which only Tavares, Carroll and two triples outside the Jordan Mickey script put the counterweight. The lack of offensive loopholes infected Madrid in its defense, without the aggressiveness and forcefulness of always. Without mastering the rebound, the whites did not run. And Burgos, grown up, made to pay for mistakes and found heroes: McFadden, Fitipaldo, Rivero ... A push encouraged by Rudy seemed to propel Laso's group (31-36), but again Joan Peñarroya's plan, a partial 13-5 to reach the break with advantage and hope.

McFadden, Bassas and Aguilar

Burgos did not shrink on the way back from the changing rooms, well concealed for the rival's forced rise in intensity. Stopped the blow that was not, with McFadden destroying a Jeff Taylor with the mission of stopping him. At that moment, advancing the third act well on the wave, he began to really believe. Because Bassas won the battle against Campazzo, the rebound was still his - tremendous Pablo Aguilar there -, the success did not leave them and, incredibly, the advantage did not stop growing (65-55, min. 28). Two Llull triples were like a breath of oxygen for Madrid just before the finish line.

With Tavares finally dominating for a moment the rejections, Madrid threatened to break the rival domain. There was the key moment that usually knocks down dreams of greatness. But Peñarroya was not going to throw all the work to the ground, despite having his players on the edge in every way. He stopped the battle and plugged in his warriors, injection of bravery, confidence, self-love. Madrid made a thousand mistakes, from start to finish, but all the credit is from Burgos, which made him human. Benite did not have any complete now, although two consecutive errors were about to spoil everything (81-81).

But it was not the Madrid of always, sleepwalking, absent-minded, erratic. When Benite missed a somewhat forced triple, Aguilar won the game to a Mickey off the hook for the rebound. Again. Mickey himself needed Bassas with less than nine seconds to play, it was the sentence. Although just in case Madrid lost the background ball later. Nonsense. A heroicity. A mess now for the whites , who on Monday face Valencia with very little network.

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