Real Madrid opened the Endesa League season with a victory in Miribilla over Acunsa GBC (70-86).

Without

Facundo Campazzo

, MVP of the Super Cup, nor

Rudy Fernández

, who sentenced the final against Barça, Sergio Llull hung up the stripes to overcome the resistance of the only team that managed to ascend this year.

The Menorcan, with 18 points, nine of them in the last quarter, closed the first win of the course for the whites.

The team of

Pablo Laso

resolved without two of its pillars last weekend in Tenerife.

To the casualties in Bilbao, the scene of urgency due to the reform of the San Sebastian team's flag, was added that of

Anthony Randolph

, who was also suffering from physical discomfort.

Despite everything, Madrid knew how to carry out a fairly close duel throughout the first half.

No one could tell by watching Gipuzkoa Basket play that they put together the squad in less than two weeks or that until September there were important players like

Johnny Dee

or

Jaime Echenique

who couldn't reach Spain due to visa problems.

Dee, a gunman who will never ask before pulling the trigger, and Echenique, a center who did not blame his debut against

Edy Tavares'

2.20

.

High revolutions

The locals, putting aside all the convulsions of the preseason and their rise in the offices, protected Madrid, who still needed time to refine their filarmony.

The painting by

Marcelo Nicola

, Laso's former teammate and old friend at Baskonia, appeared ready to play with high revs and ready wrists.

In these first steps of the course, when the teams were still settling in, the shooting caught the whites off guard, who needed to go through changing rooms to get order.

If there is a habit that Madrid has not lost in these months, it is to break games in the third quarters.

It was their best stretch on defense, and the moment they managed to break up the game with another one of those things that doesn't rust,

Jaycee Carroll

.

With his 37 years in tow, he drew with the first ball that passed through his hands and unloaded 11 points in the quarter on the GBC, unable to keep up.

The Guipuzcoans managed to close the gap thanks to the aim of Dee and

Will Magarity

and some imbalances in the defense of Madrid (

Usman Garuba

, off-center, ended up covering himself with a towel when he realized that it was not his day).

They got to only four points behind but Llull, accurate from afar, and

Alberto Alocén

saved the first win for Laso's men.

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