• Barça.Jasikevicius puts Heurtel on the street

Perhaps Pablo Laso would never think of that summer of 2011 when he took the reins of the convulsive Real Madrid post Messina that would turn a decade at the head of the section, 718 matches of records and titles, as

Florentino Pérez was

in

charge of remembering on Sunday

in the assembly of Partners, putting his "mythical figure at the level of Lolo Sainz and Pedro Ferrándiz."

A splendid path in which successes and identity ended up making us forget the critical moments, which were there.

Overcoming obstacles as part of the process.

Although it is possible that no Rubicon like the one now presented to the Vitorian coach.

If it was already a timid summer in terms of reinforcements, a time to tighten their belts and reinvent even more a squad in which they would obviously have wanted to make adjustments, in a couple of weeks Madrid have run out of two of their references, like a devilish game of destiny.

If

Facundo Campazzo's

departure

to the NBA was

publicized, it has been especially painful the very serious injury of Anthony Randolph.

The power forward, who underwent surgery on the same Sunday as the Achilles tendon in his left leg, will not return to the field until the beginning of next season.

At one stroke, Laso has been left, among many other things, without the 20 points that between the two averaged in the Euroleague, starters almost always, differential players, two pillars of a squad that started in September with 15 pieces:

Abalde and Alocén arrived

and Jordan Mickey and the barely used Mario Nakic and Salah Mejri had left.

But with some important asterisks, such as the 40 and 37 years respectively of Felipe Reyes and Jaycee Carroll and the 19 and 18 of Alocén and Garuba himself.

“We are using Usman too much in the sense that too many responsibilities are coming to him ahead of time, the same thing happens with Abalde.

Alocen is in a very difficult position, but the only thing I ask of him is to continue working as he has been doing, ”Laso himself acknowledged a few days ago.

Barça, on Sunday

Surviving with great merit in all competitions -

undefeated leader in ACB and third in a Euroleague

in which he won nine of the last 10 games -, the unknowns nevertheless swirl in the future of the team, which, with an eye on the second title of the course -after winning the Super Cup, the Cup that will be held in February at the Palace-, begins a turn of the year with turbulence.

On Tuesday he receives ALBA from Aíto García Reneses and on Sunday, at ACB, Barça -which is apparently going to let Heurtel out, according to Jasikevicius's words- before traveling to Istanbul to close the year by visiting Efes de Larkin and Micic .

If with Llull and Abalde

the needs in the management

seemed to have been suffocated

, now it is in the painting where Madrid senses a problem and it does not seem this time that the existing resources will be enough.

And that nobody in Europe can boast of a guy like Tavares, whose step forward they confirm as a differentiating element.

But, without change or respite, around him are Trey Thompkins, Garuba and Felipe Reyes who has barely played two minutes in all that goes in the Euroleague and who turns 41 in March.

Gaby Deck can serve as four, but Laso would not stop losing another forward.

And the option of the youth squad Tristan Vukcevic, 17, does not seem too solid yet.

Therefore, although the directive continues to maintain a reluctant position to signings in the current situation of economic crisis with the pandemic, going to the market seems an obvious need.

The temporary patches did not work too well for Madrid in the past -

Ndour, Mejri, Randle, Lima ...

-, Deck and Thompkins occupy the extra-community places and although the NBA market offers appetizing discards, they seem too expensive and risky.

A romantic but very logical option is put on the table.

«The circumstances are not pleasant because of how they have happened, but returning to a place where I was very happy is very pleasant.

Of course,

I would love to return to Real Madrid and have another chance there, "

said Gustavo Ayón on the EsRadio program Tirando a Fallar.

Because if there is a pivot who would not need adaptation, who was key in the recent glorious stage is the Aztec, currently without a team and wanting to postpone his retirement: he turns 36 in April.

In addition, the Titan has already obtained his Spanish passport and is free after finishing the Mexican league a couple of weeks ago with the Astros de Jalisco.

Ayón left a year and a half ago in search of a niche in the NBA so he could be close to his son, but he ended up at Zenit.

«It didn't work out for me, but I don't regret it.

Then I tried to talk to Madrid, but they told me that everything was closed and I respect that, it is normal in such a big club that it cannot wait for anyone.

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