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History speaks of a Real Madrid of great brains.
A walk through its past is a recital of bases of legend.
From Corbalán to Doncic
.
And yet the present protest, with a weakness in the foundations such as was not remembered.
From Campazzo's march to Llull's injuries, going through the desperate irregularity of Laprovittola.
And for the accelerated maturity of Carlos Alocen, who had to grow years in months. A review of the first eight teams in the Euro qualification
The league is enough to bring out the obvious.
The reins of Madrid, the absolute protagonist of the last decade of continental competition, have been left in the hands of a 20-year-old boy who had just turned 20.
In their direct rivals the best metronomes in Europe stand out -
Mike James (CSKA), Sergio Rodríguez (Milan), Shane Larkin and Micic (Efes), De Colo (Fenerbahçe)
- or guys as fit as Wade Baldwin (Bayern) and Kevin Pangos (Zenit).
Even those who are behind show off: Vildoza and Henry (Baskonia), Wilbekin (Maccabi), Sloukas (Olympiacos) ... Not to mention the Barça that threatens WiZink this Thursday (9:00 p.m., DAZN), with the last final of Copa so in the atmosphere, nothing less than with Nick Calathes. Against those stripes, little can be reproached to Alocén, a bet for the future turned into a benchmark.
"He has everything: he is tall, he pulls and penetrates very well, he is a great passer. But he has to gain the ability of the conductor. That is given by time.
It would have been very good to coincide more with Campazzo
", reflects Juan Antonio Corbalán, who knows something about the bases to which responsibility falls at the age of 20. Signed two seasons ago as a great promise of national basketball and transferred last time in his home team, Zaragoza, to the hand a backpack bigger than the one predicted has suddenly appeared, and it is responding.
"The responsibility should be Laprovittola"
In the last seven Euroleague matches, Alocén has been around 20 minutes on average.
Playing more and with greater consistency in the absence of Sergio Llull than Nicolás Laprovittola.
Leaving flashes of impudence, but also moments of trouble against rivals with more experience and experience.
Accelerated lessons.
"You cannot demand more of him. He is training and growing. He has a great vision of the game, talent, ability to pass, self-confidence, shoots well ...
needs to grow physically, more power
.
He will be a benchmark, but the responsibility should lie with Laprovittola, who has to take a step forward, have a more proactive attitude, "says José Miguel Antúnez. The former starting point guard for Madrid, European champion in 1995, draws attention to the great White current problem, the hole in the address. "One of the pillars, Campazzo, is missing.
Doncic left before.
The team has been lame, "he admits." With Alocen, Laprovittola and Llull the team pushed forward, waiting for a positive evolution of the three.
Alocen's growth, Laprovittola's leadership and Llull's seniority and character.
But the real situation is that Madrid with Llull's injury has become more lame in that position, "he emphasizes. Because the base position at Real Madrid is not just anything. Legends have passed through there. Vicente Ramos, Carmelo Cabrera, Corbalán, Djordjevic, Bodiroga, Raúl López, Sergio Rodríguez, Campazzo ... and Doncic.
And Pablo Laso himself
.
Who has been making it clear with words and deeds that Alocen is his man.
Present and future.
"His case is difficult. He comes to a position that in Real Madrid is always complicated. It happened to me, but he is working very well. I am delighted," he claimed this course. Alocén's numbers have grown lately (7.2 points in the last weeks of the Euroleague), although perhaps more the feeling of security.
In clear contrast to the doubts that Laprovittola continues to leave, who was also not helped by the contagion by covid before the Cup. "Laprovittola is a made player, with his limitations. If you compare him with Campazzo ... he has fewer possibilities. Alocén still needs it. A little more to take reins, something that gives you the years. He has capacity, but he lacks that 'autoritas' to manage the team as if it were his.
Need a couple of years
", reels Corbalán, who asks the young man not to bow down in the face of major challenges such as the one this Thursday against Calathes and the Barça team:" He has to play with impudence, lose respect for them and take risks.
It's difficult, at first the referees don't respect you so much ... "Beyond the complicated present, because another defeat against Barça
(still without Pau Gasol)
It would entangle Real Madrid's qualifying options as seed for the Euroleague quarterfinals, there is the future and the pending reconstruction of a squad punished by departures, injuries and the passing of the years.
And there the proper name of Heurtel emerges, who will be the base of Pablo Laso from next summer, a couple from Alocén.
"I find it unbalancing, with experience, he does not burn the ball in the important moments, he knows how to win games and titles, he has shown it. It is a safe bet. And his style is pleasant, beautiful, dynamic", confirms Antúnez about the French , cut by Barça and temporarily signed by ASVEL, although he cannot play Euroleague matches.
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