Fabien Causeur is always there, at the bottom of the bench so many times, the last of Laso's rotation and from time to time not even that.
Some may wonder why he continues year after year at Real Madrid and nights like this Wednesday against Baskonia give the answer, resounding: because he never fails when required.
And after a start to the season full of ups and downs for him,
now that Campazzo is already shooting with the Nuggets
, it seems the moment of the Frenchman.
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Before his former team it was torture.
And that did not appear until after the break.
Just when the best minutes of Real Madrid arrived, which shows muscle in ACB with
12 career victories
and that against the group of Dusko Ivanovic, who had been his little private ogre, he showed the power that keeps him undefeated leader.
In the diabolical calendar, in this month of December for which the fan needs a secretary to remind him what and who is playing today, a Madrid-Baskonia broke in, no less.
Of a lost and future day of the ACB (the 17 ...)
.
Positions at work, it doesn't matter, it's about competing.
Although better to place first.
Causeur was the protagonist, in which it was only his match 8 throughout the season, contagion of coronavirus through, with all that that implies in the rhythm of a player away from competition and collective training.
Get back on the moving train.
Well supported by the seriousness of Deck, the consistency of Abalde, the self-confidence of Trey Thompkins and the sparks of Llull.
But his was the night,
21 points and a PIR of 27
in 18 minutes.
"It is an impossible gap to fill: Facu was our leader," he later clarified, to avoid comparisons.
Without Vildoza
Like all battles against Baskonia, it was not easy for Madrid.
If in Moscow the whites brought out their personality for the first day of the new life without the Facu, the champion, despite
the absence of Lucas Vildoza
, insisted, as has been his custom, to make everything uncomfortable.
After a quality exchange in the first quarter and a small local pull,
Zoran Dragic appeared
on the scene to break Llull.
The Slovenian has plenty of intelligence.
Nine points in a row from Goran's brother returned the initiative to Baskonia, who was hurting on the offensive rebound, which did not shrink either later in the exchange of triples.
With Ivanovic's wild group, half measures are not worth it.
From the dressing room return, Madrid brought two more revolutions, in defense and in concentration.
A resounding 15-0 run
with Causeur already in the game.
The Vitorians took more than five minutes to land and they already had a slab on top (63-50).
The fired Madrid was stopped by the irruption of Henry, who should never be left for dead.
He returned to sign a great game
(21 points and six assists)
, despite Laso's efforts to stop him.
Before, the only resources had been Dragic and Peters' triples.
And that's why it didn't come to Baskonia to threaten a comeback.
Because Causeur kept nailing vindictive triples and Llull put the icing on the cake with a couple of actions of pure talent.
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