Classification. 25th matchday
There comes a time when the potholes get so messy that the only thing that matters is making your way, what does it matter how.
With the same problems of the last games - the lack of an external reference, the turnovers, 20 this time - Real Madrid managed to carry out another rough game against UCAM Murcia from defense.
Edy Tavares
(16 points, seven rebounds), dominating in defense, and
Gaby Deck
(10, points, seven rebounds) led the Whites' victory, seventh in a row in the Endesa League.
[Narration and statistics (58-74)]
There could be no better sign of the impact of Tavares in the paint than the 0/10 in shots of two with which UCAM Murcia started the game.
Penetrations that stop short.
The trays that catch an impossible parable to try to save those arms.
Those of
Sito Alonso
scored only one basket in the first nine minutes of the
game, two in the
entire first quarter.
Both triples.
And one of them, the first for
Emanuel Cate
in his five-year career at the ACB.
At another time, that beginning would have condemned the Murcian team, but against this Real Madrid there always seems to be time to get into the game.
For the locals it was the second quarter, when they raised the pressure on the outside to delve into the doubts of the whites in the circulation.
The idea was to steal balls to be able to go out into the open field.
In the absence of success from the outside, it was the only way to escape from the empire of Tavares under the hoop.
Carroll and Causeur
With
Tomás Bellas
and
Jordan Davis
in front, UCAM Murcia managed to short-circuit the Whites attack.
The losses -20 in 40 minutes, three less than against Khimki-, became a drag that prevented take-off: against an opponent with a 4/23 shot of two in the first half, the score at halftime was poor 24-30.
It was the general trend of the game for the whites, who could not take advantage of
Jaycee Carroll
or
Fabien Causeur's
pulls
to mark distances.
Murcia, with the ex-Madridista Cate (17 points) or Davis (16), always found a way back.
Only in the last quarter, when the visitors gave another turn of the screw in defense, and when the intensity of UCAM began to translate into fouls, the final gap arrived.
The team of
Pablo Laso
, with much sweat that transpires in the result, won his seventh straight victory in the ACB.
UCAM Murcia, decomposed since that coronavirus outbreak and without
Conner Frankamp
, still does not know what it is to win in the league in 2021.
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