A boiling ending and the unusual streak of Jasikevicius in the WiZink

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The final reached such a temperature that even

himself realized that his words after Wednesday's agonizing 1-1 victory sounded grandiose.

“We have to fight to the death in Madrid.

This is so.

With blood if necessary.

I know it's using very big words, but it's like that”, spurred the Lithuanian, aware that those two free throws by

(or the missed triple later by

) gave him a breath of life that can reverse the final outcome.

Because this is about inertia, about mental states that change to the smallest detail.

Of heroics, such is the limit in which both are at this point in the course.

Not long ago it was Barça that permanently frustrated Real Madrid, from Belgrade it seemed that everything had changed... Ups and downs that now, suddenly, with the trip of the series to the WiZink Center -today, third game: 9:00 p.m., Let's go - Curiously, they smile at the Blaugrana team again.

With a devastating fact: Jasikevicius has never lost with Barça at the Palace.

Six wins in two years, none with too much trouble.

In the Endesa League, in the Euroleague, in the playoffs and even in a cup final (2021).

In all of them, Barça exceeded 80 points and in the last one, in February, just before the Granada Cup, they won by 18. It was precisely at the Palacio where Saras made his debut as a professional coach, in January 2016, when he took the reins of the Zalgiris of which he was an assistant.

Even with those from Kaunas, he managed to win in the white temple: in April 2019 (86-93), with an exhibition by

(27 points and 10 rebounds).

"The most important"

“We have played many times against them, we have played very different games but now it is the most important, a very demanding final in which we have to recover well”,

conceded yesterday about the ninth classic of the course, which obviously will not be the latest.

The truth is that Madrid seemed to have escaped from those permanent ghosts that Barça imposed on them in each of their clashes.

It's not just that he stole the Euroleague semifinal and, clearly, the first game of the final.

Already in the last league match at the Palau, Barça won with many difficulties and also with final controversy (that lack of

...).

Since the worst streak in memory of the Laso era (17 defeats in 28 games) ended in Bilbao on April 13, he had won 16 of the last 17 (he only lost in the Euroleague final against Efes)... until Friday, which was also the first loss for

as a substitute for the player from Vitoria after eight games.

The physique, the rebound and the success are marking the final.

“People are tired and physically touched.

They and we.

The one with the most courage will survive”, conceded Saras, whose list of hits is also extended:

with ankle problems,

received a strong blow to the cheekbone,

is still out... Like Real Madrid, which has recovered

, although they are still in the thick of things.

And that he can't count on

.

His three-point percentage, the one that marks his wins so many times, ranged from 41% in the first duel to a poor 19% (5 of 26) in the second.

Faced with so much injury, another key is how the coaches are squeezing their pillars.

Both Jasikevicius and Mateo place their trust on four pillars.

For Barça, in addition to a

who has played 64 minutes in two games,

(53),

(50) support the group.

For Madrid, with

at the helm (68), it is

(51) who concentrate even more responsibility.

And then there are the precedents, those who say that on 14 occasions a final was placed 1-1 and the advantage is slight for the team that started the tie with home court advantage against: they managed to lift the trophy eight times (57.1 %).

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