Tavares and El Chacho lead Madrid to a new final

As last year, and as in each of the other two times (2013 and 2014) that they met in the run-up to the grand final, Real Madrid beat Barcelona in the Euroleague semifinals. The blaugrana went from more to less against a white team that knows how to play this type of game like few others and that will face Olimpiaks in tomorrow’s title game. (7:00 p.m., Dazn). It will be a reissue of the 2015 final, which began Madrid’s victorious cycle in Europe after they lost to the Greeks in 2013.

The start of the clash clearly marked the game plan of each of the benches. Madrid, with Tavares recently crowned for the third time as the best defender in the Euroleague, wanted to take advantage of his inner power, which put him ahead 0-6 until Barcelona began with their triple festival. During the first ten minutes, the Blaugrana scoring was limited to the outside shotbut this was very fruitful, taking advantage of the concessions in defense of Williams Goss or Musa and exploiting the talent of you open, who scored all three of his tries. In total, Jasikevicius’s team hit 6 of their 9 shots from the perimeter. In the second quarter, with the rotations, the tunic changed. Chicken y Satoranski they took over from Abrines on offense and Nnaji’s defense helped lead to a 22-13 run that only a three-pointer from Llul and a basket from Hezonja made it 42-36 with which they reached halftime.

In the third quarter the dynamics changed radically. Barcelona choked on an outside launch that accused Abrines’ forced rest due to fouls and the complete absence of Nikola Mirotic, who began the fourth quarter without scoring a basket, despite his six attempts. All the effectiveness was left in the hands of Laprovittola, who began by extending the lead to 8 points (47-39), before Real Madrid endorsed them a set of 0-15with a proper name: Walter Tavares. The Cape Verdean put the team on his back on both sides of the field and, helped by the improvement of Goss and Musa, he managed to overcome the duel to 47-54, confirmed with a three pointer from a Mario Hezonja also turned into an important man. . At the last minute, Laprovittola was once again in charge of bringing Barcelona up to three points with a new shot from the perimeter that left everything wide open for the last quarter.

However, in the final period the old guard of Real Madrid appeared, with plenty of experience in these single-match European battles. Especially differential was the Chacho Rodriguez, What an unevenness of 58-58 when receiving an unsportsmanlike attack, scoring the two free throws and putting a bomb of his in the next play. The Canarian point guard was in charge of adding nine points in a row for the whites, just before another magical assist to tavares to establish a difference of 8 units (61-69) that no longer found an answer in the rival.

A blaugrana non-appearance that was explained from the performance of Mirotic who only managed to add 3 points. Between this, the fact that Abrines could not be on the court as much as Jasikevicius would like and that Tavares (20 points and 15 rebounds) insisted on showing why he was the only ACB player included in the European ideal quintet, the reason is more understandable. triumph of a Madrid that will play its sixth final in ten seasons.

technical sheet

BARCELONA (66)

Jugador PTS 2P 3P TL RT AS MJ V

20 Lapro 12 0-4 4-11 0-1 3 3 29 7

21 Abrines 16 1-2 4-8 2-2 ​​4 0 18 14

13 Satoranski 7 2-4 1-2 0-0 11 3 30 13

33 Mirotic 3 1-3 0-7 1-2 1 1 28 -2

5 Sanli 0 0-3 0-1 0-0 3 0 16 -7

10 Kalinic 6 0-1 2-2 0-2 2 0 18 6

6 Vesely 4 2-5 0-0 0-2 6 3 13 2

8 Sergi M. 0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1 1 2 1

24 Boys 11 1-3 3-6 0-0 2 0 24 11

31 Jokubaitis 6 3-5 0-1 0-0 2 3 12 3

46 Nnaji 1 0-0 0-0 1-2 2 1 9 6

TOTAL 66 10-30 14-39 4-11 43 13 200 59

SARAS JASIKEVICIUS (trainer)

REAL MADRID (78)

Jugador PTS 2P 3P TL RT AS MJ V

0 Goss 10 2-7 2-2 0-0 1 2 26 5

31 Musa 7 2-6 0-2 3-4 2 2 21 3

8 Build 0 0-4 0-2 0-0 6 2 20 2

30 I will 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 2 8 5

22 Tavares 20 7-9 0-0 6-9 15 1 33 39

13 Chacho 12 2-5 2-3 2-2 0 5 15 13

11 Hezonja 14 3-6 2-7 2-2 9 0 33 18

1 Talker 0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0 0 8 -4

3 Randolph 6 3-4 0-1 0-0 2 0 7 5

5 Rudy 2 1-1 0-2 0-0 4 0 17 2

23 Llul 5 0-2 1-2 2-2 0 5 13 6

TOTAL 78 00-00 0-0 0-0 0 0 200 97

CHUS MATEO (coach)

partial:18-18 / 42-36 / 55-58 / 66-78 /

Given: Real Madrid has qualified for the Euroleague final six times in the last ten seasons. So far, they have won two and lost three of them.