It will not be a night to remember, but Real Madrid is leader of the Euroleague awaiting today's results from Barça and Milan.

No frills, after a (very) bad first half, waking up in time before a diminished Red Star.

With trade and above all a defense that was enough to avoid greater evils.

They are those games in which Tavares is too much for anyone.

Without making more noise than your earplugs.

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There are casualties and casualties. And templates and templates. That of Real Madrid this year, with the burned-out lesson from the hardships of the previous year, is deep and versatile, and has recovered the physical power necessary to return where it has not yet gone, to the heights of Europe. A quintet of injured for Laso and what difference does it make. In front, one of the few not so fierce rivals in Europe, a Red Star who was also in the picture. And it's not the same.

Perhaps because of that supposed superiority or because of the suffocating load of matches. Or because it was not the day. But Madrid, who woke up briskly (14-5), with Heurtel determined to make himself happy and make others happy with assists, suddenly he was strangely entangled, uncomfortable, failing. Against an opponent ready for anything and without pressure, whom Zirbes and Hollins put into battle. 32 points at halftime (16 and 16): "We are lucky to be tied [just a triple for the Serbs]. They have been the worst 20 minutes of the year," conceded Laso of embarrassment.

I mean, things could only get better. And so it was, more out of drive than brilliance. With Heurtel again at the helm (nine points in the third act) and a much more aggressive defense. But without a basketball of those that hook, which together with the mediocre entrance in the WiZink (the pre-pandemic atmosphere does not finish recovering the Goya enclosure), made the night thick.

Real Madrid ended up winning almost by logic, because the dominance and fear imposed by Tavares win games in silence and because the inertia of the scoreboard destroyed the faith of those in Belgrade.

And because Rudy appears and every mistake is a punishment: he is the smartest player in Europe.

It was he who animated the night the most, when everything was resolved.

With a triple and two great assists, especially one from behind to Poirier, pure genius.

The crazy ending did not help the sensations.

Although no one will remember how and yes that this year the Red Star did not attack the WiZink,

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