Real Madrid hold the Bilbao comeback and remain undefeated

Real Madrid endured in Miribilla the tremendous comeback of Bilbao Basket, which came to neutralize after the break a 17-point deficit in the second quarter, and the unbeaten league that keeps it a solo leader with a tight 83-85 in the middle of the continual threat from 'the men in black'.

A postponed match of the sixth day in which the whites, who angered Pablo Laso in a third quarter in which they received a 31-14 partial, began clearly dominating launched by the young Alberto Abalde and Carlos Alocén.

But then they had to use outstanding versions of Sergi

(14 points), Trey

(16, 6 rebounds and a PIR of 22), Edy

, (9 rebounds and 4 blocks), and until the last minute of the 'Facu '

to save the furniture, carry out a commitment that was extremely complicated and chain nine consecutive victories in the ACB.

Because Bilbao Basket returned enraged in the second half to chain a 21-2 that changed the sign of a match that came to be 27-44 shortly after the break with French point guard

in a state of grace (16 points with four baskets from three points in the comeback) to help Ondrej Balvin, the main stronghold of Alex Mumbrú's team (18, 8/12 Q2, 6, 3 steals, 5 dunks and 21).

Five points in a row from Abalde and Carroll's first triple (0-8) began to put Madrid downhill in a game that in its first quarter dominated Alocen almost at will, who advanced his team by up to 13 points (10- 23) before those first minutes ended 12-23.

In Bilbao Basket, the only one who opposed the resistance was the giant Balvin despite having a Tavares in front of him even bigger and also toned.

The second quarter was similar, in which Thomson, Taylor and Llull took over from their young teammates to stretch a difference to 17 points (27-44) that remained at 15 at halftime (29-44) for a basket of Serron, the only place that would make Mumbrú happy with Balvin.

As in the first quarter with 10-14, the Czech center had given a thread of hope to his team, leading a reaction that put the locals within only seven points (25-32) 4 minutes after the first return to the locker room.

It seemed almost everything said in the first 20 minutes, but Rousselle rebelled against the fate of the match, went into ecstasy and with four plays of three points, two triples and two 2 + 1, turned the match in three and a half minutes ( 48-46).

The partial conceded by Madrid, 21-2, made Laso very angry, who, according to his words in a time-out, did not quite "understand" the 17-2 that his team conceded at the beginning of a third quarter that, incredibly, 'the men in black' finished ahead (60-58).

Thompkins triples

On 31-14 of those ten minutes, more explanations were avoided and Laso put

on the court

, unprecedented in the first 30 minutes.

But the Argentine could not change the course of the clash, which was already on a path of equality until the final three minutes, which were still ahead of the locals (74-73).

But seven points in a row for whites, including one of

several baskets

and another of

' also several triples

, and several errors from Bilbao decided a match in favor of the leader (73-79) that Bilbao Basket, however, fought with options until the last seconds (78-81, 17.8 from the end).

But Madrid ended up being undefeated against a rival much better than expected by the 1-5 that reflected in the classification and that, after losing by 17 points, came back and dreamed of victory until the last gasp before the clash ended 83-85.

after a triple from

with less than a second to go.

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