Lucas Sáez-Bravo Madrid

Madrid

Updated Sunday, March 31, 2024-2:50 p.m.

  • Classification This is the Endesa League

Playing with fire so much usually has consequences. For the second time that Real Madrid was not at its competitive level in three days, defeat came at the WiZink. A wonderful BAXI Manresa, boosted by the audacity and talent of

Brancou Badio

, knocked down the whites, this time unable to come back, to correct too many mistakes. [72-83: Narration and statistics]

He contrasted the visitor's seriousness with the local anxiety. It was like this all morning in the Palace. The leader of the ACB looked like

Pedro Martínez

's group , solid against the attacks of Madrid, aggressive and successful, an exercise that confirms the revelation team of the Endesa League, which was already present in the Malaga Cup and it is very likely that it will also It will be in the next playoffs. With this Sunday's victory there are already four victories in a row and 16 so far this year.

When the responsibility burned the most, with Madrid pushing for a comeback, a hero appeared in Bagés' team. Badio, formerly of Barça, hit a tremendous triple with a minute and a half left that sealed everything. There were 12 of their 23 points in the final act, to which Madrid arrived in a hurry, despite the fact that

Sergio Rodríguez and Poirier

threatened with another trademark comeback.

The game was similar from the beginning to Friday's game against Red Star, although this time Real Madrid does have latent objectives in ACB, to maintain that first place that it has held since the beginning of the season. And in addition,

Chus Mateo

recovered three of his mainstays (

Campazzo, Deck and Poirier

), who were rested in the Euroleague. And, although the start was happy (11-2), Manresa soon regrouped to leave WiZink with a great first half.

Deck, against Manresa.ZIPI ARAGONEFE

With intensity and tactical wisdom he managed to make Madrid doubt. Gradually, they took over all facets of the game until they added a partial score of 12-29 and were nine up (23-31, after a triple by

Geben

), with the good direction of

Dani Pérez

, the points from

Robinson

and the defense that made them lose. balls to a rushed Madrid. On Friday,

Hezonja

(who did not play this time, despite being called up), said it clearly, as he usually does: "The first half was summer basketball, a shame." It could be applied this time too.

On the return the sensations did not improve much for a lazy Madrid, which was late for almost everything and even missed unusual baskets. Plus all the triples. A serious Manresa took advantage of all this, with a triple from

Oriola

putting the alarming +11 (38-49). And then the nerves. Because the referees didn't give a single one, always desperately corrected by the reviews. And in such anxiety to come back, that got everyone mad.

With three triples out of 25 hits, Madrid's mission became impossible. Campazzo,

Tavares and Musa

gray, Hezonja resting and only Poirier and some Deck. With the emergence of Badio, came Madrid's second home defeat in the entire ACB season in a weekend of not very good feelings at WiZink.