There is no misfortune that can stop Real Madrid: Deck and Hanga take the Palau

• Real Madrid Randolph's hair-raising injury

Predestined to meet, for the success of one to be the failure of the other, especially this time, after a season in which both needed Biodramina.

The Endesa League is the last foothold for Barcelona and Real Madrid, which will dictate a summer of smiles, calm and disconnection or another of nerves and rumours.

And the first round of this abyss fell on the white side, as if all the past ghosts had suddenly stayed in Belgrade before

.

Not a trace of the frustration of doing nothing, a seemingly too easy victory.

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Because at the end of the course each one came with their ups and downs.

A Barça with the court factor and almost all the precedents except the one that matters most in its favor against the whites.

Those two Euroleagues that fell by the wayside mark Jasikevicius, even though Madrid suffered from injuries, schisms and the spring slump later fell in the final against Efes.

Now they were the ones who arrived in an apparent good wave, 15 wins in the last 16 games, despite the casualties -

was on the bench, but did not play;

returned but played just one minute- and the heart attack of the absent

.

That said, something changed at the Stark Arena: Madrid, who had lost in 11 of the last 15 precedents, went over, in the same dominant line as in the semifinal against Baskonia.

That is called trust, the one that makes what is around little matter.

Or better yet, let the misfortunes be spurs.

At this point, Madrid seems invincible because nothing affects them.

Not even when

's eyes widen on the parquet floor of the Palau, his left knee shattered, as his Achilles tendon was two years ago.

Another fallen soldier.

John Nunez

At that moment,

's team (still undefeated as Whites' main coach) was already flying in a Blaugrana stunned by the unequal battle.

Because Barça, without

, who woke up with five points from

in 30 seconds, seemed caked before a gale that commanded a repudiated.

There was no money to renew

last summer, who felt rejected and now in the eternal rival he looks like a full veteran.

He scored 16 points at the break, a reinvented point guard, and Madrid managed to command 20, dominating the rebound, the rhythm... Transitions as a roadmap.

It did not matter to hand over the reins to

, just turned 18 years old.

Because the defense was the pillar.

Barça returned from the locker room with a little more energy, but without a plan to contain the rival.

He scored more, but received the same.

And the offensive rebound tortured him (he gave up until 17...).

Real Madrid kept calm and kept their distance: success was on their side.

Juan Núñez reappeared on the scene, with such normality that he frightens an almost debutant boy, at the controls of such a battle.

A pearl for Spanish basketball.

And his team stretched the rope again, the maximum after a free throw from the youth squad (51-74) to close the third quarter.

In the final act, Barça sought a display of pride.

He raised the lines, the aggressiveness and the temperature.

He risked because he had no choice.

There was a 12-0 that seemed like something, spurred on by a

who vindicated himself, because he has lost prominence with Saras.

But a triple by

to round off an exhibition in each corner of the court and another handful of rebounds in the opposite hoop, with the physical exuberance of

powerful against Mirotic- sustained a Madrid so sure of itself that it may even seem weird.

He recovers the court factor but above all he grabs the sensations of the final by the lapel.

A fist on the table for a reconquest that is urgent: the last League was three years ago.

Because the 0-1 is hope: nine of the 11 precedents indicate that the team that achieves this first victory ends up being champion.

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