Tavares

over here, Tavares over there.

At the slightest doubt, balls to the sky, to that painting where the giant imposes his law, more when he faces there are no guys of his stature.

And, around Edy, everything flows better, there are spaces for triples by

Llull, by Rudy, by Causeur

.

Baskonia succumbed to the dominance of a player who makes a difference, in attack and defense (12 points, 13 rebounds and so many things that are not counted), in the first game of a semi-final series that promises.

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Because Madrid is surrounded by misfortunes.

Pablo Laso

's chips fall

like a domino, he looks for solutions on the run and finds Tavares to avoid all evil.

It was around the locker room when he made a move at night at the WiZink (a 15-0 in less than four minutes), a pull that left Baskonia paralyzed, already desperate for the remains, chasing an impossible.

Causeur

was

the protagonist of that electro-shock, but everything revolved around Tavares.

When Baskonia realized the slab they had on top of them, Madrid only had to survive the desperate three-pointers from

Costello and Peters

with their short turnover, penalizing Vitoria's losses, which were an ordeal for

Spahija

.

And sustained by the success, this time yes, the perimeter his white ally in a game in which the defenses soon disappeared and that had more than five minutes of garbage and a lot of visiting makeup (the 17-year-old Slovenian

Klavzar

made his ACB debut ) .

Because the first part had been a gymkhana for Real Madrid.

Confirmed that

Abalde

was out (who joined the three point guards

Williams-Goss, Alocén and Heurtel

),

Hanga

was soon charged with two fouls and not long after

Llull

, who burst into the Palace that night with three triples in a row, He went to the locker room with discomfort in his thigh.

He wasn't going to come back.

Thus, with such a curse on Laso's directors, in the second act it was

Juan Núñez

's turn .

And, without the 18 fulfilled, the brazen youth squad endured the pull of an even duel.

Because Baskonia, despite the obvious fatigue (they resolved their quarter-final tie on Monday in Valencia), responded each time to a Madrid that relied on the tyranny of Tavares.

The giant made the difference (nine rebounds at halftime) and Llull and Rudy were two lashes.

But Spahija's men, supported by

Marinkovic

's three-pointers and Baldwin's offensive flow, did not lose face in the game... until they went through the locker room.

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