The Baskonia of the great Darius Thompson ends with Real Madrid on the horn

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This strong-emotional Baskonia run by

leaves no room for the indifferent .

This team of ups and downs, basketball to the chin, which is bidding to return to a Euroleague playoffs.

At WiZink he signed another of those nights not to forget.

A triple on the horn by

sealed his third victory of the course against a Real Madrid team that has taken the measure.

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The outcome honored all of the above.

A precious clash, of alternatives, zero yawns.

This is how the Baskonia proposals tend to be, although they do not always turn out as well as they did against Madrid.

Seven down with four minutes to go, they still had three more triples left for a comeback that puts their hearts in their mouths.

The Whites were stunned by

's display : his last assist, his 14th, served for an epic triumph.

Madrid still won by two with 1:17 to go.

Then

failed .

Costello, the protagonist, executed a slate play by Peñarroya on the wing in less than a second.

At the next attack,

, bravo, blocked

.

And, on the horn, with a free kick included, Costello's fifth three-pointer closed a victory that Baskonia dreams of strongly and that makes Madrid dismount from the summit of the Euroleague.

Return of Tavares

With its frenetic pace, with its suicidal way of facing each duel, Baskonia has become one of Real Madrid's most uncomfortable rivals.

As if they could not escape the contagion of that basketball that Peñarroya proposes, express possessions, Run&Gun à la Vitoriana, the whites end up entangled, forgetting their fundamentals.

Because the night at the WiZink soon turned into rock and roll: the match went on like a Formula 1 race.

started by hurting their former team, but the dapper Darius Thompson offset the first home advantages.

Tavares returned, who last week sprained his ankle in France, but Costello overwhelmed him with a pair of triples: it was a warning.

The losses penalized Madrid, but they managed to go into the break with an advantage thanks to their success (5 of 9 in three-pointers there) and a two plus one finish from Musa that summed up the intensity of all of the above.

But Baskonia's bet continued on the return.

Thompson and

formed an unstoppable duo, especially the mastery in the direction of the North American point guard, who stole, assisted and scored to the despair of WiZink.

With Costello's third triple, the people from Vitoria set the maximum and the alarms (50-59, min. 26).

A 10-0 was the radical white response, as if, at last, they had realized what was cooking.

, of course, were at the controls of the reaction.

The last act, as if they were fireworks, started with five concatenated triples, three for Baskonia, two for Madrid -both by Musa-, in a marvelous alternation.

But, as if without making noise, in that veteran basketball wisdom that has already added to his enduring magic, it was

who seemed to have the reins of the night.

And thanks to their basket passes -and Tavares' lock, of course-, the whites began to shoot towards a victory that was not going to be.

Because this wild group that Peñarroya manages believes in the impossible.

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