Fabien Causeur, a wink of fate and the secret to a brilliant maturity: "I'm not the best, but..."

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There are players who write history without giving themselves too much importance, guys who come to the spotlight and not the spotlight to them.

(Brest, France, 1987) always had the vitola of achiever.

A low profile reinforcement five years ago, with experience, with his left foot as a differentiating element.

A salary not too high to give cache to a deep template.

But the secondary, luxury, insists on being contrary.

"Without making noise", as he repeated on Friday at the Stark Arena, in Real Madrid's last training session before the final.

And without losing the smile.

Because when asked, Fabien smiles.

That self-confidence is perhaps the key to the triumph of his insistence, of his love affair with heights.

Belgrade again, another man from the Final Four.

"It's those games where you give everything in 40 minutes, you can't think of the next thing as a playoff to five.

It's my attitude.

I'm not the most talented on the team, I'm not the most, but I give it my all... and when you're right, it helps", he said, aware that perhaps the big day of his career is awaiting him, a candidate for an MVP who already brushed

That yes, opposite will have to

, "a challenge, very different against the Barça".

"They play a little more freely. They have these two point guards who are very aggressive in 1v1 and they are key. To have options we have to make a team effort, a collective defense", I imagined who scored 18 points on Thursday and who will still be more essential with the confirmed loss of

.

Four years ago, only

's star shone brighter in that final against Fenerbahçe.

He stole an MVP from him that he could brag about: he scored 17 points and only the two missed free throws in the abyss - that life-saving offensive rebound from

- tarnished his feat.

In the semi-final against CSKA he had already scored the two attempted triples.

That was only his second game in a Final Four, in which he had debuted, always in the background, with Baskonia in 2016 in Berlin.

"A House in Belgrade"

Also in the last white appointment with the F4 Causeur was one of the few who was saved in the lost semifinal against CKSA in Vitoria: 18 points in 15 minutes.

On Thursday, against Barça, he did it again.

«He played the last Final Four here very well and the first match was magnificent.

Man, I would recommend that you buy a house here, everything will be fine, "

joked about one of his little right eyes on the squad, the only one I mention in the previous one, always praise for those who took him out of more than a rush, as in the second game of the quarterfinal series against Maccabi (20 points, four triples, four rebounds, five assists...): «For me, Fabien is never secondary».

Curiosity was revealed yesterday by the Frenchman, those winks of destiny that mark races.

"I didn't know, but Pablo told me that in 2018 he wasn't going to make me play in the Final Four. The change in the end worked out well for him...", he confessed with, of course, a blue-eyed smile. Because the star Fabien's is not one of those who shine at first. "I have been taking steps forward every year, finding my holes without making noise. Little by little I have taken center stage. In a month I am 35 years old and I am at a great level. It is a pride, it is a lot of sacrifice, training a lot, arriving earlier, leaving later, treatments... A lot of effort. Good things are achieved with work", he enumerated to, without a doubt, proclaim: "I am in the best moment of my career. I play better basketball now, I have more maturity in my game, I know exactly what I have to do,

I read the game better for my peers.

I have improved every year and there are things that are not learned without playing so many minutes.

I'm happy, now you only think about enjoying yourself."

Enjoy a guy whose contract ends in a few weeks, who drools over his daughter Valentina, who hangs out in Belgrade with his mother Lucía and her "caps" - "I would like to have this trophy for her" - and who also in the costumes were fundamental in the adaptation of the French who were arriving.

For example, he was in charge of calling

by phone to finish convincing him a year ago to sign for Madrid.

Other types of baskets.

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