With the confidence of the one who once again felt as dominating as before, with the spring of the one who reigned in the Super Cup last Sunday ...
Sergio Llull
appeared in time to avoid greater evils for Real Madrid at the start of the ACB.
He finished with his blow to the table, with his 3-pointers a la
Carroll
in the last minutes, with the resistance of the new San Pablo Burgos de
Tabak
.
Poirier and Hanga
had previously been in charge of supporting the team in the middle of a worrying mistake.
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It was a first-day Madrid, waking up with legañas, with hard wrists, because the Super Cup and the comeback against Barça was a wonderful oasis of competitiveness in the preseason desert. For the moment
Pablo Laso
trusts
his French praetorians, the new hard core of the team, because the power of
Yabusele
and Poirier is still ahead of the rest right now. But the Burgos post
Joan Peñarroya
appeared in society with different makeings, but with the same competitiveness. With Zan Tabak on the bench and several new faces -
Braimoh and Kullamaee
liked it - it's a tougher, tougher group. And that was suffered by the whites all afternoon at the WiZink.
For example, the scoring break in the second quarter, when after two consecutive triples like Llull's mirages, Madrid threw five minutes without hitting the mark. Not even back from the locker room he managed to break the clash, always an adequate response from the Castilians, each planting even the white towers, Poirier and
Tavares
, perhaps the most dominant pair of intimidators that European basketball has seen in years.
Losses were the condemnation of San Pablo, who reached the finish line with options intact.
Although there, a mistake, perhaps relying on those triples that his rival failed over and over again (16 of the first 21), ended his options.
Like so many other times, Madrid resolved in the sprint.
A demarraje in the absence of three minutes, a partial of 11-2 with two triples from Llull in the middle.
Like two punches to the chin.
It was not an afternoon to remember, although he left important notes for Laso, who still cannot count on
Randolph or Thompkins
.
Nor with
Abalde and Rudy
.
Holes in the power forward and forward position.
But there you have
Adam Hanga,
that he was always a rival, first at Baskonia and then at Barça, but who seems to have been under his command all his life.
The Hungarian shows his renewed hunger and his good preseason.
Although what most attracted attention, what makes Laso's Madrid 11.0 feel something different, is that capacity for defensive dominance that Poirier and Tavares impose on painting.
Two giants like they were not remembered in Europe.
The African is still far from his best form, but the French is showing an insurmountable face.
Al Burgos ruined him with half a dozen plugs.
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