Euroleague: Llull’s intra-miracle story: “Sergi, do you want it?” | euroleague 2022

The Spaniard accepted responsibility without hesitation in Chus Mateo’s previous timeout. “It is the basket of my life. This passes to the right to the one in Malaga”

In the middle of the euphoria Sergio Llull He tried to explain the indescribable, what can only be felt from the bowels of a winner like Spanish basketball has never seen, a play that he will see in a loop, forever now inseparable from his legend. Without remembering too much how. Not even very well from the previous instructions. In that dead time with 12 seconds to go Chus Mateo The miracle was forged between a thousand pulsations, although with the Balearic Islands in between, words are so many times over. Just a question: «Sergi, ‘do you want it?’». And then an amazing succession…

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Real Madrid culminates with a basket for the story of Llull the Eleventh of the impossible

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Real Madrid culminates with a basket for the story of Llull the Eleventh of the impossible

So, the serve of Fabien Talkerthe blocking of tavaresLlull’s penetration before the giant Moustapha Fall, the shot so pumped that it kissed the sky of the Zalgirio Arena. And ecstasy with 3.2 seconds to go. «Dal? If you tell me to repeat the play, I don’t even know. I only know that I went to the right, but I don’t know who was in front of me, or if there was a single comrade, or how much was left. Now I will see it, “commented the hero, who did not admit comparisons:” It is the basket of my life, of my career. This passes from the right to that of Malaga (2016 Cup final). That one was closer to the end, but this one is to win a Euroleague, something incredible.

It was a fated release. In that huddle, no one doubted that it was for Llull. Matthew’s words only reinforced the message. «He has marked the play. Later, Sergi has said a couple more times. But I was no longer listening, I was just trying to psych myself up”, pronounced a Llull who had not yet scored a single point in the entire final, although on Friday he had become the top scorer in the history of the Final Four. “It was clear. When you have a guy who has put her in, who has that character, she has to play it. There was no question. Fall has punctuated him, but we all knew that he was inside », recounted a Sergio Rodriguez who also had his share of enormous prominence, with a three-pointer with 45 seconds to go to cap off his incredible recent performances. Although not even ecstasy would take away the pain in his neck after the blow he gave himself as soon as he started with Rudy.

Mateo, who was moved by the words with which Tavares claimed him to open the champion’s official press conference, also spoke of that play for the history books. «It is that there is no other who scores those baskets. If there is someone, it is him. There was no doubt. Llull does not mind assuming that responsibility. It was poetic justice. I am especially happy for him, because it has not been an easy year, with a serious injury, assuming a role with fewer minutes, “said the coach.

Nor could MVP Tavares sum it up better: «Llull is the best player in the world at the last second. Everyone knew that he was going to throw it, but nobody knows how to stop it. And for that, courage, the key to everything. About what the Spaniard was spinning with the net around his neck – «I’ll take this one, it’s also the one that entered the last basket. This one is special.” “I just accept that responsibility, knowing that you can fail and be the one to blame for the whole mess. Or put as it happened today. The first step is to be brave », he settled.