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It took Vincent Poirier just a few months to become a benchmark player at Real Madrid. One of those strategic signings that mark the future, a renegade from the NBA who dominates and competes happily in one of the best teams in Europe, who forms a terrible couple in the paint with Edy Tavares to the point of changing even his identity stamp scored by Pablo Laso. Against UCAM Murcia it was his great afternoon. A cyclone that put its boots on the paint, to the despair of one of the fittest teams this season. [71-80: Narration and statistics]

Poirier finished with 24 points, from start to near the end, just four misses on his 13 shots, some further away than his usual range dictates.

It was his top in the ACB and equaled even his best mark in the Euroleague (in 2018 against Bayern with Baskonia).

Sito Alonso tried to set him up and was destroyed by the Frenchman, well accompanied by Williams Goss.

They were the proper names and defense, once again, the momentum from which the team that Chus Mateo led again this Sunday grew (three out of three in Laso's absence).

The compulsive way of scoring of the Murcian collapsed to 71 points.

Neither triples were needed by Madrid, just two of 12 attempts, something unusual in recent times.

The first part was as intense as could be expected.

One of the great protagonists of this beginning of the ACB season, the UCAM top scorer and fourth in the table, before the leader who attended the Euroleague double week and with the covid absences of Heurtel and Causeur (plus Pablo Laso).

A suitable place for the ambush, although Sito Alonso shot himself in the foot to begin with.

Determined to float Poirier (starter), to minimize the impact of the pick and roll, the Frenchman put on his boots with the four-five-meter throws without rectification of the rival.

A bleeding that made Madrid send from dawn, even with important distances (7-19, 24-34 and 35-45 of the break with a Juan Núñez basket), which the locals tried to cut based on the momentum and the aggressiveness that has made them fearful.

And with the stitches of the froggy McFadden.

But it was not enough, although the whites had barely hit a triple in 20 minutes, even if they lost on the way to Rudy (thigh strain) and Alocen (he suffered from the injury from which he was returning).

The locker room return extended the trend, Poirier and Williams-Goss were too much for the local momentum, who rebelled on the basis of offensive rebounds and McFadden's 3-pointers, but could not quite get close.

He was not going to do it all afternoon, as frustrated at the rival wall.

Real Madrid solve another intense and troubled week with three wins and already has 13 (out of 14) to remain at the top of the ACB.

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