Urban Klavzar, stellar debut of the new Doncic ‘thanks’ to the outbreak of Covid-19 in Real Madrid basketball

The Real Madrid forgot the outbreak of coronavirus that has affected the locker room to win (71-65) to CSKA Moscow, only with nine players –three of them debutants– in a match on matchday 17 of the Euroleague that delighted the WiZink Center when the night was looking very black, the most in recent years.

The team of Pablo Laso, who has also tested positive for COVID, arrived at the appointment with many doubts and with the unknown – throughout the day – of waiting for a possible postponement of the Euroleague. Contagion of Adam Hanga It was the last of the half dozen that Real Madrid has. The company was the most difficult, but the meringues faced it without fear.

With Chus Mateo on the bench replacing Laso, the capital team offered a whole show of pride, strength, work and perseverance, the best arguments to knock down a CSKA who played with everything in the Palace and could not get a cut. The whites, who had registered the day before three juveniles, They came out like motorcycles in order to intimidate a rival who was not expecting it.

The response was brutal and Tavares led an 11-0 run in just four minutes. The Cape Verdean pivot was the best of the game and threw chevrons to reign under the hoops. RudyDespite his discomfort, he also helped from the perimeter by putting electricity into the match; Y William-Goss He was vital in the direction, especially in the last bars of the game.

The Muscovites corrected their bad start with the points of Clyburn and they returned the balance to the scoreboard (35-33) before reaching the break. The ‘normality’ took over the party, whose equality lasted until the equator of the third act (56-55), when it began to carburet Nikola Milutinov under the hoops. Everything indicated that the awakening of the Russians would have its reward in the second half.

CSKA went further and blocked the rapid transitions of Real Madrid, which never put chloroform into the game, on the contrary. The meringues accelerated the game to the disbelief of their rival, who continued to be stuck in defense, especially with the rebound, when the score was more expensive and thus compromising the Spanish.

But the pupils of Dimitrios Itoudis and it was then that the old Palacio de los Deportes went crazy with a dream ending. Tavares pounded to the delirium of the stands, Llull sentenced from the perimeter and Rudy continued to prolong his beautiful battle with the ‘Chacho’ Rodríguez for being the second best tripler in the entire history of the Euroleague.

To round off the victory, the youth squad Urban Klavzar -Slovenian, signed by Real Madrid at the age of 14 and who points out ways to emulate his compatriot Luka Doncic– was the best with 10 points and a pair of triples that got the Wizink on their feet.

Sediq Garuba, brother of the Houston Rockets player (and Madrid youth squad too) and Baba Miller they also brought their own in what was a glorious debut they will never forget. Laso’s men follow in the wake of Barça and remain unbeatable in the heat of their audience.