Tavares completes his work and the Real Madrid of misfortunes is already in the final

• Real Madrid Chus Mateo and a League for Laso

The Real Madrid of catastrophic misfortunes, of a particularly convoluted year, will play its fourth final of the season, all possible.

Once again, his competitive spirit prevailed over the circumstances.

With

on everyone's minds, with

at the helm and a good handful of injured players -three homegrown players in the squad-, the whites finished off Baskonia on the fast track and are already waiting for Barça or Joventut to try and win back the ACB three years later.

[77-85: Narration and statistics]

This tie will be remembered as the one that Madrid won without bases (without

).

A whole revolution that had its most difficult moment this Tuesday at the Buesa Arena, where the series was touched: nobody had ever come back from 2-0.

Because

, called to star in great deeds this season, tried to sign a small, indefensible masterpiece.

A first-person boast that came too late and found no company, beyond the flashes of

.

But the script of the two previous ones in the WiZink did not change too much, as if Baskonia, who did not have any chance of victory this time either, collided again and again with the same wall, called

.

This time the giant began his undermining work more gradually, but by the break he already had 12 points.

Because the white dominance was cemented in four triples without fail to dawn, to once again frustrate

's men (14-25), who were trying to raise the physical bar to no avail.

"The difference is Eddy"

The second quarter was local, because Madrid did not hit a triple, because they went down with their very poor rotation and because Baldwin had taken it personally.

But the advantage was soon fired again: the locker room lap was another whiplash.

And with an unappealable protagonist.

Few moments in his career has Tavares experienced as in this tie.

Full of confidence, his performance rose to the point of hurting and not only under hoops.

He scored several baskets from four meters and even a fade-away that Nowiztki himself would have signed.

His numbers are the culmination of some MVP playoffs: 23 points, 12 rebounds, two blocks... «The difference is Edy Tavares.

It is impressive, an NBA level, ”said a Spahija without an answer.

This time the Baskonia did not throw in the towel so soon.

In front of his public, he was proud to try that his disappointing season, in which he did not get into the Cup or the

Euroleague playoffs without Russians, did not die so soon.

It was

, custodian of the Baskonia character, who tried, in vain, to call a riot (64-69, min. 33).

But again nobody got on his bandwagon, the mistakes of

.

With an immense

at the controls -the great secret of the great white moment- and a devastating

, contributing points to his undeniable deaf work, it was a martyrdom, the final hammer blow to a semifinal too unbalanced for the tight rotation of a Madrid that He will have a few days to recover troops (Llull, Abalde...) and even, perhaps, his coach.

"We wanted to dedicate it to Pablo," concluded Chus Mateo, who remains undefeated.

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