Suddenly, a battle of the times, of those matches that are passion, tests of character, nights in which heroes are born, those that are hard to forget.
The OAKA, empty, saw the consecration of a phenomenon that had been warning.
Real Madrid beat Panathinaikos after two overtimes the day Abalde broke down the door.
Tavares' display (20 points and 14 rebounds) is no longer news.
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It is the 17th win for the whites in the last 18 games, the hardest without a doubt.
Unbeaten in ACB, increasingly away from those bad feelings at the beginning in Euroleague.
They have found the voracious pace that Panathinaikos was about to stop him, who revived in the last act and fought through thick and thin until they demanded the show of Madrid.
When it seemed that everything was entangled, Abalde took a step forward.
Personality and talent in overtime - he finished with 19 points and six assists - when the triples did not enter, when the Greeks dreamed of a victory that would break their bad days.
Because the Panathinaikos came in need.
It is not the same as long ago, there are no longer so many luxuries in the Athenian squad, orphan of references and idols, surviving as best it can in the current Euroleague, where it takes dust as last week by Zalgiris.
But they still have pride.
They accumulated 10 consecutive affronts against Laso and that sting.
That is why they started fierce, turning the battle into pure mud, contagious errors, since it took 10 triples to hit the first one.
But Madrid was also thick.
The white virtue at the beginning was patience.
The umpteenth exhibition of Tavares was in the oven.
Already at the end of the second quarter the giant warned, despite the fact that he had competition in the 2.20 of Papagianis.
If the African was already dominating, finding a rival of his size spurred him even more.
Around the dressing room, the boom, with Carroll on the track for the first time, with Abalde at the base, the white pull, as if attacking on a ramp of the Tourmalet, without looking back.
With Randolph drawing attention to his partner in the painting.
Panathinaikos managed to return to the battle, hooking themselves with ardor, as if the stands were roaring, with the inspiration of Nedovic (12 points in the last act) and a zone defense that misled Madrid, who fell badly into the trap of Vovoros .
The white mistake from the perimeter did not help and a basket from Papapetrou equalized with three minutes to go (66-66).
Laso chose to leave Carroll and Randolph on the bench and nobody hit a triple for Madrid (he finished with six of 33).
Finally, a clap from Llull managed to take the duel to extra time after a few dire minutes, but it was already all agony.
Even more so when the Hellenes started in overtime with a 5-0.
It was time for heroes.
Abalde emerged, very powerful, knocking down all the doors on his 25th birthday, as if he had been wearing white all his life.
A basket from the Galician seemed to be definitive, but Bochoridis also wanted his plot of prominence, a basket, two free throws and a great final defense to Llull to take the match to the second overtime.
And there, Abalde again taking the reins to finally undermine green morale.
An ordeal, a fierce battle, a party of a thousand owners that finally fell to the white side.
The day that Abalde, playing base, took all the stripes.
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