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Pablo Laso

said

after the penultimate defeat in the Euroleague that the chewing gum had broken.

That after weeks overcoming the casualties to continue rowing in this calendar without respite, Real Madrid had no breath left.

Barça passed the bill in the Cup final, but the hangover still lasts.

The whites, thick and without intensity, fell to the lead against Valencia Basket (89-78).

Not even

Jaycee Carroll's

wonderful shootout

against

Vanja Marinkovic did not make

up for the White team's problems in attack.

Between the American, who wanted to retaliate for the trigger against Barça (0/8 in shots), and the Serbian, irrepressible when he gets hot, they spent the first quarter exchanging open-chest bullets from one basket to the other.

Carroll's triple was followed by Marinkovic's.

At the entrance of one, that of the other.

But while Carroll's 15 points in the first quarter (of the 21 that Real Madrid scored) were the little that the whites made clear, thick with ideas, slow in movements, Marinkovic's 12 were one of many escapes from water that Laso's had.

They are still missing

Rudy Fernández and Jeffery Taylor

, capitals in defense, and

Garuba

disappeared with three quick fouls, but even with those asterisks he was surprised by the ease with which Valencia Basket hurt him.

20 down to rest

Sam Van Rossom

crumbled the Real Madrid defense (16 points, 8 assists) with surgical precision, although

Jaume Ponsarnau's team

did not need to overstretch the white defense to find the breaking point and get very comfortable shooting positions (12 / 26 on 3s despite second-half slump).

Two data denounce the passivity of the white defense: that in the entire first half the Taronja team only lost one ball and that, for the second game in a row, Laso's team went down 20 at halftime.

But unlike the final against Barça, in which he managed to make up the image with a burst of pride, not even that came out for Real Madrid.

It did adjust the score, but it left the broken gum image back.

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