Tavares, the giant who also wins games for Real Madrid: unstoppable for Zalgiris

When the moment of truth came, no one could beat Eddy Tavares in Kaunas.

Nobody reached his skies, those of an absolutely decisive type, who also showed that his amazing hands do not tremble, that he knows how to decant matches.

He took the giant out of the quagmire at Real Madrid, that of a rough game against Zalgiris, for

, to gradually return to the places where the white team must live.

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There were less than three minutes left and Real Madrid could not find the way to triumph, given, of course, to Campazzo.

The Zalgiris responded again and again, stony in their Zalgirio Arena, despite the fact that this time there were barely

.

Nerves invaded the scene.

A technique to Facu himself put a disturbing 86-81.

But there Tavares emerged, balls to their peaks, impressive in the pick and roll with the Argentine and also with Llull.

When the sun burned the most, six consecutive points from the African, the last after swiping the umpteenth offensive rebound.

What a nightmare for those in green.

The victory in Kaunas was his, 22 points without failure (equaling his top in Euroleague), plus 12 rebounds.

A sigh of relief, because the duel had been like a labyrinth of those that always twist the exit.

, less than 48 hours after sweating in Bilbao and against what until now was the leader, the reinvented Zalgiris post Jasikevicius.

And with a total dependence on Campazzo, inexhaustible in his almost 33 minutes on the court: no one can blame him that he left something undelivered before making the jump to the NBA (19 points, 10 assists and three steals).

Because the first half had been too extreme a swing, two sides of the same team so radically different that they scared.

The white irruption was devastating,

-22 points both in the opening act- with the enormous support that Tavares' dominance in painting supposes, as a springboard for everything else.

Impossible to withstand such an offensive push for a Zalgiris who lost the wheel like a cyclist without legs.

And, suddenly, nothing.

It is not the first time that the pattern is repeated, that the second unit has suffered.

Worse when

-

able to return - and made his debut in this Euroleague Felipe Reyes, his 17th participation.

With Laprovittola at the helm, Martin Schiller's team fell apart until the matter was completely turned around.

He was scoring in every possible way.

Rubit, Grigonis and, above all, Walkup, who finished off with his fourth triple.

Only Llull and the return of the headlines had stopped the bleeding and even so Madrid went to the locker room with a backpack full of stones.

And it cost him to return, although the slogan to improve was evident.

But with the defensive step forward,

concentration

also arrived

, failures that drove Zalgiris, who came to command by 11 (64-53).

At the finish line of the last act, an

erratic

appeared at last

until that Rubicon.

Two three-pointers from the dapper power forward were the wake-up call, a 2-12 run at the start of the final act that put Real Madrid fully into the battle.

But when he seemed riding the wave of victory, the Zalgiris hardly shook.

He endured the onslaught, responded with a 7-0 ... But he ran into a wall impossible to cross.

Up there, in the infinite arms of Tavares, was a triumph of those who know well, because he suffered a lot.

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