Lucas Sáez-Bravo

Updated Sunday, March 17, 2024-20:46

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The leadership in Carpena was at stake and it was not trivial even if there were 10 days and a world left.

In the morning Barça had lost at home, in case there was any doubt that Real Madrid and Unicaja are being the best teams in the ACB.

And green and white provided a clash that lived up to expectations, of tremendous intensity, of twists and turns and even an end with some controversy, when

Campazzo

robbed

Carter

in a dubious action - "it's a foul because they wanted to do it",

Ibon Navarro

complained

- and

Deck

sentenced the opposition.

Madrid de Málaga emerges as the leader and has two victories on the road (on Friday they won in Bologna) of which they put an end to supposed crises.

[81-87: Narration and statistics]

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The whole of Málaga was dismayed by that action on the edge, because its hopes of a colossal triumph rested on it.

Before, everything had happened at Carpena, with a Madrid weighed down by its losses and somewhat irregular in its consistency, and a Unicaja all self-respect, which recovered from the weak first half and found no more triples from

Osetkowski

or any other when he needed them to solve the thriller.

Although he managed to maintain the basket-average, he is two wins behind

Chus Mateo

's team in the table.

The first impact on Carpena was delivered by an unexpected guy, always so in the shadows of

Abalde - Hezonja

caused a loss -, with the perennial feeling of not achieving what he promised.

But in Carpena yes, lowering the temperature at the stake, pulling on class and this time also effectiveness.

His three flawless triples calmed Unicaja's initial momentum, counteracted Osetkowski's two and balanced a rebound-dominating Madrid.

Only two unsportsmanlike offenses (one against Campazzo and another against

Musa

, both clear) cut off the pace of Mateo's team, as if revitalized after their visit to Bologna.

Ibon Navarro, despite the disadvantage and the loss due to an early injury to

Kendrick Perry

, continued to add fuel to the duel, that is how basketball is understood in Malaga, rhythm, aggressiveness, frenzy.

But the three-pointers did not reach him and he found himself down 11 (21-32), making everything more complicated for the locals with

Poirier

and his dominance of the paint on the court.

After a small green push, a three-pointer from Campazzo closed an electric first half.

Osetkowski celebrates one of his triples.ACB Photo

But the last word was not said from Unicaja, a proud group, which had won 19 of the last 20 games in the ACB, which dreams of 2006, the leadership in the regular season, that historic title.

That he already had 21 points in the WiZink and that in the return he made it 12-2, with four triples, two of them from

Alberto Díaz

, the engine, the heart.

Three more for Osetkowski, very inspired, a sniper in the body of a center and the Musa's response for a stupendous battle, a final in the middle of March, the two open-tomb fighters tied (64-64) to enter the final quarter.

And there everything continued to advance in agony, with the emergence of

Sima

(10 points against Poirier) but also the white offensive rebound, which destroyed the local options.

A triple by

Yabusele

and an alley-oop by Poirier left Madrid heading into the finish line (74-78).

Although after the timeout, a green 6-0, the penultimate response, because Madrid had the blow on the table ready.

Tavares

returned

to the court and Campazzo found him in the skies when he ate possession.

Campazzo himself was going to be the protagonist with that controversial robbery of Carter that left everything clear for sentencing.