Laprovittola solved it with a suicidal penetration, because a few seconds before, for the first time all afternoon, Barça had taken the lead with a triple from Mirotic.

It was a passionate classic in its outcome, an ode to emotion and spectacle, but it will also forever be a classic to remember.

Winks of fate, the same day that Pau Gasol returned to the ACB, two boys who are between the two less years than the legend, became men.

In the face of need, daring.

Before the all-star cast of Jasikevicius, the one who had frustrated Madrid four times in a row, Usman Garuba and Tristan Vukcevic.

They are talent, they are physical and they are future.

In the Palau they were pure present, giants and not before anyone.

It does not matter if Mirotic, Brandon Davies or Gasol himself were his pair.

With Tavares out of action due to fouls, Pablo Laso found two pearls in his hat and took a classic that leaves him the leadership of the ACB in his pocket.

While Barça celebrated Pau's return to the ACB, as a starter as on Friday in the Euroleague, Real Madrid licked the wounds of its troubled present.

As if it were a cruel torture, his references escape him in the middle of the battle.

What else can happen to Laso, who no longer knows what resources to invent, like a conjurer always forced to a new trick.

After the boast of Istanbul, with Deck already on his way to Oklahoma and Thompkins out due to injury, any excuse would have been good at the Palau, against that pure muscle Barça.

The heart remains for Madrid, which rebels in an almost moving way against its fate.

Riding the wave of Fenerbahçe, he woke up without any complex, biting a Barça that when he wanted to give account was nine down (11-18).

Tavares had been a reality still too severe for Gasol.

But when the giant made the second early, the most difficult came yet.

With two children in the painting came the white revolution.

The exuberance of Garuba, who caught rebounds as if the rookies were the others, and the emerging talent of Vukcevic to put an entire ocean liner on the ropes, the top favorite to win everything in Europe this course.

After two three-pointers by Rudy, Madrid (22-36) stretched the rope, flying at the Palau, without errors, without a trace of Mirotic, with a defense of pure heart, with the offensive rebound as a symptom.

It was only Smits, Calathes and Kuric's triples that countered that strength.

"I don't understand how Madrid can come out with more enthusiasm than us," Jasikevicius told the cameras.

There had been a row in the locker room, which is no longer a novelty in his case.

Another different Barça returned, putting pressure on the entire field, renewed aggressiveness in search of the comeback.

Although it was going to cost him, because Real Madrid was already a warrior ready for anything.

And that Tavares soon made the fourth.

The triples of Abalde, the power of Garuba, the anger of Rudy ... It reduced Madrid as best it could.

The Barça approached with the eight first points of Mirotic, consecutive.

And a triple from Abrines left him on the edge of an already colossal battle, with controversies here and there to make it even more spicy.

But Madrid was the audacity, that of its children, men in the Palau to conquer the classic.

The beginning of the final act, with Causeur as the executor -the elbow he had taken before Davies did not affect him at all- and Garuba and Vukcevic as elements of surprise, the youngest inner couple in the history of the classic in acb (in any of the two teams).

A triple from Dusan's son, plus a very powerful coast to coast from Usman, returned a lead (61-74) to rub his eyes.

Madrid still had to suffer against an already desperate Barça.

Higgins is so classy that he silently turns a game upside down.

Accompanied by the experience of Calathes, they returned to get close to the locals.

But it was the night of the new ones, of a triple by Vukcevic when the ball burned the most, of the defenses of both homegrown players.

Madrid celebrated, however, too soon, who did not suffer a final disappointment of a pure miracle.

From 74-81 he went to 85-84 with a triple from Mirotic.

There were 10 seconds left, Laprovittola, who was sensational all afternoon, took responsibility, traveled the entire track and scored an acrobatic tray that crowned a real game.

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