Causeur reigns in an empty palace

Every time he penetrates to the basket, Fabien Causeur cannot deny that among his idols he counts a great southpaw like Manu Ginobili.

The Frenchman has a knack for finding his way to the hoop and defining with a pianist's touch.

It is one of those pieces that may not look as good as it could among so many options as Real Madrid shuffles, but that he usually responds when he plays.

In case a reminder was needed, the Frenchman led the white victory over Casademont Zaragoza with an offensive display: 25 points in 28 minutes (102-83).

It was Real Madrid's first game at 'home' since last March 8.

The rival was the same, a Zaragoza that

now trains

, but more than from another season that match now seems to us from another life.

To begin with, there was an audience.

More than 8,000 people.

Just a few days later,

would test positive for coronavirus.

Six months later, in an empty Palace, Pablo Laso's men prevailed in a duel with more sweat than indicated on the scoreboard.

While it is warming up, Real Madrid works jerkily.

It was difficult for him to detach himself from a brave Acunsa GBC on the first day, and he responded in streaks on this second.

Dominant in the cue outs, the first and third acts;

brittle on the second and fourth.

The whites came out briskly, aggressive on defense and dominant on the rebound (they caught 14 of the first 15 available), and soon put together a good cushion with an 11-0 run.

Before finishing the first quarter, the difference already touched 18 (26-8) and an easy night was announced.

But in these first steps of the course, and with important losses each game (this time Llull, Randolph and Taylor), it is still difficult to catch the tone and what at one moment in an attack tuned to the next was a sea of ​​losses: up to seven in the first 20 possessions of the second quarter.

More than a third.

In large part thanks to the improvement in the defense of the hands, but also to an out of tune circulation.

Meanwhile,

was

into the scoreboard: 14 points in just 8 minutes.

Young Krejci's injury

The North American escort left the prestigious Duke University struck down, but his problems were extra-sports.

His relationship with the ball has never been in doubt, as he is showing in Zaragoza.

With him in front, the Aragonese team came to reduce the difference to just one (39-38).

Real Madrid managed to save face before the break but their great reaction, as is often the case, came in the third period.

It is a habit that he does not lose and that has helped him carry out the first two days: between Campazzo, Rudy or Tavares they raised the temperature in defense while Causeur, again on fire, pointed the Zaragoza options with another 10 points.

Too much for a Basket Zaragoza with a lot of gunpowder on the wings but gray in the direction.

The worst news, the injury of the very young

.

The Czech, who expected to appear in the draft in three weeks, left on a stretcher after a bad fall in a fortuitous action with

.

Krejci hooked just enough on the rim to unsettle and land badly on his left knee.

The cry of the young pearl of Basket Zaragoza tore an empty Palace.

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