The Euroleague is without an owner, full of legitimate and ambitious suitors.

And each day is a swing as unpredictable as it is exciting.

On Thursday, the first three fell.

And this Friday, Real Madrid did not lose an option against an old rival, Maccabi, who was not too far from the top either.

So, with 17 games played, the equator, there are five teams equal in the lead, 11 victories for Olympiacos, Baskonia, Barça, Monaco and the white team itself.

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Impossible to predict at this point who will be in Kaunas in May, because to that shortlist we would have to add, of course, Anadolu Efes, the champion, for example.

There, in the Final Four, where a Real Madrid should not be missing, which, like the competition itself, is today an enigma difficult to decipher.

From one night to the next, even from one moment of the game to the next,

Chus Mateo

's men continue trying to find themselves while little by little the moment of truth for the course approaches.

After losing against Baskonia and Barça, the whites recovered in style with the visit of

Lorenzo Brown

, who after his incredible and golden Eurobasket with Spain is signing a spectacular Euroleague (18.1 points and 6.6 assists per game).

And that they were planted on Three Kings Day with significant casualties.

Without

Deck or Hezonja

, who added to the absence of

Rudy Fernández

, although Mateo recovered

Adam Hanga

.

And, despite that, due to its own merits or rather due to the demerits of others (Maccabi missed its first 13 three-point attempts), in a breath Madrid found itself crushing a rival aimlessly, looking in favor.

Petr Cornelie

-the best- and that doll that is pure gold, well accompanied by

Musa

and the fluidity that only

Sergio Rodríguez

brings , destroyed the group that

Odded Katash trains

, that elegant scorer from the 90s who had to retire early due to a knee injury.

After Musa's third triple, 27 up.

Although a little nap before that made the Israelis recover some breath before the break (51-34).

Tavares plugs

But it was just a mirage.

The Maccabi, in which the wayward Wade Baldwin returned, was not up for the job.

Tavares was a wall (five blocks) and the triples entered Madrid compulsively, as if they were the candies from the parade the night before.

Before the end of the third act, 16 triples already, the whites led by 30 (78-48).

It was a good exercise to charge the batteries of self-esteem after the doubts that Barça had scattered around the Palacio in ACB just four days before.

Madrid, with the current in favor, is a cyclone.

With facilities to run -make way for Yabusele-, it is suicide for any rival.

Another thing is in matched abysses, where he still has to show his strength.

The last act just didn't go.

Chus Mateo gave air to a Hanga that will come in handy just over a month before the Cup. And also to the youth squad Eli Ndiaye while the whites chased records.

The number of assists (they stayed at 29) and triples (18 of 33) in a Euroleague game, exceeding 100 points in one night for the third time so far this year.

They did not succeed because there was no longer a rival or enough competitiveness.

And because, in the next 10 days, another four duels await.

Do not stop the party.

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