Real Madrid rises in vertigo: exhibition as was not remembered and one step away from the Final Four

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After so many sleepless nights, an unusual crisis, hitting rock bottom and beyond, Real Madrid is one step away from Belgrade and is smiling like never before, the only team capable of making it 2-0 in their quarter-final series.

But above all, in what way?

Paradoxes, the others suffer, he plans.

As if all his basketball had been uncorked from the stopper of frustration, he began to play to destroy Maccabi in an exercise so perfect, so choral, so offensive that it seemed like waking up from a nightmare.

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The sheer competitiveness freed the minds of Laso's pupils.

The fang and the pride in time.

If on Wednesday they knew how to suffer, not break down as they had been doing since another defeat against Barça at the end of January had clouded everything, now, having reached the border where there is no turning back, they found their way.

They did it without the battered

, without

, their fittest player, and without the headdressed

.

Because the mission went beyond names.

When the Maccabi wanted to realize, he had been run over by a tram.

No one has ever gone 2-0 to the Final Four.

MADRID, 04/22/2022.- Real Madrid forward Rudy Fernández during the second match of the EuroLeague quarterfinals between Real Madrid and lt;HIT gt;Maccabi lt;/HIT gt;

from Tel Aviv, this Friday at the Wizink Center, in Madrid.

EFE/ Juanjo MartinEFE

At the second, the boxers stopped preliminary.

They smashed the slates to pieces and went for the jugular.

It was a scandalous first quarter and in that offensive torrent, in that wild pimpampum, Real Madrid felt powerful for the first time in a long time.

He remembered the vertigo, the one in which he traveled in his best years and propelled himself towards skies that he had not set foot in all season.

It was a huge first half, where the whites ran, multiplied, scored correctly and dominated the paint.

35 points in the first quarter

The fireworks were unleashed at the end of the first act, when

, denied on Wednesday, uncovered himself with three three-pointers on the run, to put up 35 points in 10 minutes, which never before in a playoff game.

Unlike the first game, where Madrid dominated from the defense and the control exercised by their quintet, this time they did it from the offensive flow and thanks to the momentum of the bench, although the reborn

was always the one who held the reins. Llull was joined by a great

, but, above all the rest, it was

's night .

When the Frenchman came out for

' second foul , he became a nightmare for the Jewish pivots, distraught at his hyperactivity.

He rebounded off both rims, intimidated and scored with ease.

A mastery of the stage as was not remembered.

His first half was heavenly (13 points, nine rebounds) and his team came to dominate by 20 (54-34).

And, if there was any loophole left, some loose ghost, a 6-0 exit from the locker room, to the perplexity of

, desperate at the ineffectiveness of a Maccabi who had arrived thrown into the tie.

Without a trace of

, although their pivots were worse, crushed in the WiZink.

The festival continued with

and Llull's triples, to the delight of WiZink.

A complete party.

On Tuesday, the third episode in Tel Aviv, where the whites, reborn at the moment of truth, can certify their return, three years later, to a Final Four.

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