Causeur shines in a comfortable Madrid victory against Baxi Manresa

Two triples from Musa were the business card of the Bosnian forward in the match, against a Manresa who under the mantle of victim came out wanting to try the feat, boosted by the mobility and effectiveness of Jerrick Harding.

Real Madrid’s ‘scouting’ already had it underlined in red and that is why they devoted special attention to it in defense with Alberto Abalde and Fabien Causeur dedicated to the cause.

The Absence of Walter ‘Edy’ Tavaresas a precaution given his overload of minutes, was well covered by Vincent Poirier who dominated the paint while he was on the track.

Handcuffed Harding, The danger of the Catalan team came from the hands of the Argentine forward Juampi Vauletwho multiplied in attack and defense so that his team did not get disengaged on the scoreboard.

Madrid dominated, 23-16 at the end of the first quarter, and 46-35 at halftimebut he did not finish breaking the game definitively, perhaps because of swimming and putting away his clothes, before the double day of the Euroleague in Munich and Kaunas that is coming up next week.

Musa scored the third triple without a miss in the second quarter, adding 9 of 9 in the last two league games, although he later missed the fourth shot.

Madrid came out in a rush at the start of the third quarter with a 14-2 run in less than 2 minutes, 60-37, and with Causeur leading with 3 consecutive triples without a miss.

With victory already more than channeled, the defenses of both teams relaxed somewhat and the Real Madrid coach, Chus Mateo, was able to continue distributing minutes without too many problems, giving way to some worthwhile individual plays.

The end of the third quarter recorded a score of 80-61.

The last ten minutes did not change the panorama of the crash. Ely Ndiaye allowed Poirier minutes of rest and Madrid sailed confident and confident, at times overconfident, towards the final victory by 103-89.