Baskonia prolongs the alarming collapse of Real Madrid

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You can talk about a crisis at Real Madrid when, after a 10-day rest break and with almost all the players recovered (only

was the discarded non-EU player), the sensations continue to be horrible.

Those of a frustrated team, which lost its offensive freshness along the way, its usual rock and roll and which breaks at the first change.

The Whites' collapse, which adds their third straight defeat at home in the ACB, which prolongs the bad feelings of the Cup final and the blush of Kaunas, was taken advantage of by a serious Baskonia to chase away their own demons.

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Madrid drowned in its own mistake.

Again.

In a bad way.

That feeling of hitting a wall built by themselves.

Of failing and failing, of not generating vertigo.

There was no excuse against Baskonia, who were relentlessly coming off two home defeats in Europe.

He sensed the doubt in the rival and that was his own spring, in a second half in which his talented players, under suspicion throughout the irregular season, showed their best version.

in the paint punished the lack of rival aim (4 of 24 triples, only one in the last 20 minutes).

It was a significant collapse.

"Offensively we have not been at the level, it has been a very bad second half", conceded a Pablo Laso who did not hit the key.

His team stayed at 34 points after the break, without a trace of their referents, just

somewhat lucid.

General greyness: he has lost six of his last nine games and, above all, his smile and self-esteem.

And it seemed like a propitious afternoon at WiZink.

Own rest, foreign stress, in this troubled calendar.

Those of

, with whom he did not change the panorama too much after replacing

, came from his return to reality, from his double European week.

And they seemed to pay for it at dawn, with an 8-0 run that had more to do with accumulated energy than with basketball.

They were remade, among other things because Madrid with

at the controls does not work, to the point of getting ahead (16-18).

Enoch

That Madrid of the fireworks, from the past times of the Laso era, is far away.

Now his competitiveness is measured in his defensive zeal, in the rockiness of a very powerful squad physically.

He suffers from threat three and that's a huge problem.

The first triple, the work of the eternal

, came well into the second half and that was the Whites' sweetest moment, shot by Heurtel until they completed a 15-2 run.

Baskonia was drowning, just 29 points at the break.

But Madrid returned without too much brilliance, again in that thicket from which they cannot get rid of, again worse with Goss.

And the Vitorians took advantage of it to get into the duel, with Baldwin, Enoch and Peters leading (44-44).

And again the looks of doubt and even the red alarm (51-57) from which he was rescued in the first instance by an impossible triple on the buzzer in the third act by

.

Sometimes, those little details change inertia.

Because Madrid seemed to revive from there with an 8-0 that gave them back the initiative, although they soon got tangled up again in their mistake, in two horrible airballs by

, in an alarming thickness.

And Baskonia took advantage of it, with the appearance now of Fontecchio, until a 61-71 that made him dream.

He did not tremble on the finish line, where Madrid got close with free kicks.

A triple by

was the finishing touch.

Madrid has a problem.

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