From injuries and crisis to Laso's heart attack: the League that Real Madrid raised against all misfortunes

• Chronicle Tavares culminates the League of the reconquest

• Celebrations The tears of Rudy Fernández and the emotional detail of Llull with Pablo Laso

The Laso era suffered a break in its accounting of successes back in February 2020, just a few days before the coronavirus invaded everything.

In that Malaga Cup that

raised to the heavens of Carpena, a series of catastrophic misfortunes began in the face of which Real Madrid has shown the maturity of a project that, with the achievement of its 36th League win - the sixth since

arrived to the bench in 2011 - has shown its rabid validity.

In two and a half years, Madrid has barely been able to add two summer Super Cups to its showcases, a rarity on the list of successes that has accompanied

since its inauguration (Sunday's title number 22, with which Laso equals

;

added 27).

Because that 2020 in which the Covid took the Euroleague ahead, it already resumed crooked for a team that was shipwrecked in Valencia, during that unprecedented Final Phase in which Baskonia surprised everyone.

Last season was not easy for the Whites, marked by the departures of

in the middle of the storm , by the very serious injury of

, by the lack of reinforcements and by the hatching of

's Barça .

Against the azulgrana they lost the Cup at the WiZink and the ACB final by a resounding 3-0;

in the Euroleague they could barely get past the quarterfinals, despite taking the one that would later be champion, Efes, to the limit of the fifth game.

Heurtel and Thompkins

The necessary facelift to the squad last summer did not seem to have been effective either when in March and April Real Madrid was shipwrecked in an unusual losing streak after losing the Cup final against Barça again.

Like almost no team, Madrid was saved from coronavirus infections, from the postponements that broke its calendar before the tournament in Granada.

's serious injury

was the first of his misfortunes.

A schism like never before joined, the one that happened after the indiscipline of

in Athens for which they were separated for the remains.

In addition to the media attrition in the middle of a sporting crisis, Laso lost two fundamental pieces in his rotation.

In the Final Four he soon fell

, with which only

-in addition to youth squad player

remained as a pure point guard.

In Belgrade he broke his frustration against Barça, but he was a foot away from the Euroleague in the final against Efes.

“During a year so many things have happened to us.

summed up last night

, one of the key men in this extraordinary end of the year in which he has won 18 of the last 20 games (he only lost in the Euroleague final and in the controversial second game at the Palau).

"We were without many great players, our coach gives us a scare... We have deserved it, especially in this final phase in which we have only lost one game, there in Barcelona with their discussions, but we have embroidered it," he claimed.

.

But against all odds, the playoffs have awakened the competitive spirit of a group hell-bent on rebelling against their fate.

They devastated Manresa -the revelation team of the season- and a Baskonia that came from less to more, despite staying on the journey without

nor Llull.

And they stood in the final, again against Barça, now without complexes, opening the series with a resounding victory at the Palau, giving up the second only by the minimum and closing in a WiZink that saw his team win a title six years later (in 2016 he lost the first at the Palau and reacted by winning the next three).

They now showed praiseworthy physical and mental power.

"I think we got lost in the two Cup and Euroleague finals but the team wanted to win, we deserve it for everything we've been through, we're very happy and now we're going to celebrate it," summed up Llull.

Laso, with the injured Williams-Goss-Emilio CobosACB Photo

Because, among all his misadventures, none like the one that happened to him on June 7.

After the second semifinal match, Laso suffered a myocardial infarction that shocked the entire squad.

Despite the gradual recovery of the man from Vitoria, already present in the stands of the Palace over the weekend and yesterday at the festivities, the exercise of self-love commanded by

It has been another of the secrets of such long-suffering success, which rarely tasted better.

“It has been a very difficult year.

The Cup and the Euroleague left us in the last breath, but we have been very persevering, ”the assistant celebrated yesterday, one of the most renowned assistants in national basketball, an accidental hero of this ACB to remember.

«He has been a marronazo.

We dedicate it to the best coach in Spain and probably in Europe », he concluded, highlighting the mental strength of the group he had to lead.

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