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While everyone wonders what happens to

Jaycee Carroll

, the foreigner with the most matches in Real Madrid history, raises Japanese cows on his farm in Wellsville (Utah). This Saturday

Pablo Laso's

project 11.0 starts

in the Endesa Super Cup at the Santiago Martín de Tenerife (semifinal against the local Lenovo at 10 p.m.) with the challenge of returning to the path of the titles after a season, the last one, in White. Four casualties, four new faces and a great unknown.

The latest that is known about Jaycee is that he washed his Ford Mustang with his young son

Jagger

. His day-to-day life is related in detail by him and his wife

Baylee

on social networks and he is closer to a Western movie than to an active basketball professional. He owes nothing to the baskets at 38 years old, a scorer in the Real Madrid legend. The problem is that he neither pronounced the final goodbye nor answered the offer of renewal that the club presented him, for another year, back in April. Carroll left without closing the door and both sentimentally and professionally, that remains a matter for the club to resolve.

The last triple of the Mormon guard, the guy who ever got the most with the white shirt, the great strut from the perimeter of the Laso era - it was his first signing, from Gran Canaria, dodging Barça;

Messina

did not see him capable in the Euroleague - it took place at La Fonteta, on June 8.

Two days later he missed his two attempts against Valencia (as the only one he launched in the final lost against Barça later), in the duel that gave him the pass to the final, already with a thousand fans in the WiZink stands.

That they applauded one of their most beloved players,

Florentino Pérez's

right eye too

, although then nothing indicated that this was going to be the last time.

Christmas in the USA

Because, although the 2019/2020 season was a personal and professional swing for Jaycee, with the scent of the last dance - Madrid had to give him permission to spend Christmas in the US with his family, in full competition -, the pass seemed to reaffirm its continuity. With the club's offer for a year and with his intentions of permanence slipped.

But summer came. And Jaycee, as he explains on his own business website (River Meadow Ranch Wagyu) - he also runs a luxury rental cabin on Bear Lake - started a post-basketball adventure that he and his wife had been planning for years. “He convinced me to buy some land and then some horses in northern Utah. It is in the two months of summer that I began to fall in love with animal husbandry. We added goats and a trout pond and, finally, cattle ”, he details about the Wagyu breed, on which he received advice in Spain. Before, they had been fishing in Alaska and going rodeos. A few days ago her four children started school in Wellsville. And your phone, meanwhile, continues to communicate.

It does not seem like a whim, but a life plan.

What's more, in his statements to the official media when it was renewed in May 2020, what now seems like a path of no return has advanced: “I have listened to the fans.

When you leave it, you cannot take it back the same way and I want to make the most of it ».

And, although the club continues to keep him on the official website, as a light of hope not to be extinguished, even if no one has said goodbye to dear Jaycee, the actions themselves speak louder than his words.

This Friday, Laso was as brief as possible in the Super Cup preview.

«He is in the US.

We don't count on him, ”highlighting the lack of news about his ward.

Carroll, during the final run of the ACB.acb Photo / D. Grau

But now or for the entire season? It's a question for Carroll. I don't look long term. We have great respect for him. He is the foreigner with the most games in the club, I don't discover anything. But he is not here, he does not have a contract ”, he specified, detailing who could or could not supply his unique qualities, his triples like daggers to the opponent's heart, like grenades to destabilize any offensive jam. “Because of his style, he has always generated many attacking situations and now he is not there. I do not know if it has to be

Nigel (William-Goss), Rudy, Llull

or the team who must make up for their lack, "the Vitorian reflected aloud.

Because what does not seem is that the club is going to look for a replacement in the market, even if there is not a pure sniper like him on the squad.

With the arrivals of former Barcelona players

Thomas Heurtel and Adam Hanga

and the American

William Goss

, there are nine pieces for the foreign rotation, not counting the youth squad player

Juan Núñez

, who already debuted last year.

In the coming weeks, Carroll could finally make up his mind, re-duct in pursuit of his 20th white title.

After all, it all started with him in that Sant Jordi Cup in 2012.

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