Without natural power forwards but with self-esteem through the roof after a so far idyllic season, the leader of the regular phase of the Euroleague to the field of the bottom player, ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, with the sole purpose of ending the year with a smile in the competition of which they are current champions. The very different future of both teams – the Spanish in a state of plethora of form, the French immersed in another horrible course in the top continental competition – outlined a comfortable victory for Real Madrid; However, the logical white triumph had to be cooked over low heat.
covered Chus Mateo the sensitive absences of Deck, Hezonja, Rudy Fernández and Yabusele with a very young This is John Ndiaye who had had good minutes in the last white victories against Red Star, Partizan and Joventut. But, from the start of the game, the visitors noticed how his wound near the rim was deep. Those of the charismatic Pozzeccoaware of such a deficit, loaded the interior areas with the success of an immense Lauvergne and hunger on the rebound Fall. Against all odds, it was the French who led the game, who were close to 50% accurate in field goals, who, ultimately, ruled the result after two quarters of ordeal for those from the capital of Spain. .
The bleeding was beginning to be feared: an example of this is that the skillful exteriors Luwawu-Cabarrot and Lee both surpassed double digits in scoring before halftime. However, he was a man whom the gods usually choose to come to the rescue of his team with incredible baskets, he was again Sergio Llull who revived Real Madrid with a triple close to the heart of the court to reduce the gap on the scoreboard to six at halftime (39-33).
The return of the locker room destroyed the white euphoria derived from the Balearic guard’s umpteenth work of art. Those from Lyon, in an image very similar to the one shown since the start of the match, continued to poke at the Real Madrid sores in the paint. Meanwhile, Real Madrid was sinking into mistakes in the outside shot; There was no trace of Chacho Rodríguez or Campazzo… Only the innate kind of Musathe runs towards the ring Talker and the offensive and defensive production within the Tavares-Poirier duo kept the European champion in the fight for victory with 10 minutes remaining.
The mistake of leaving a champion alive
Real Madrid was hurt but alive. And those are big words for the entity that lifted the Euroleague 11 times. The white team stepped on the French wood in the last quarter, signing a 0-11 start – in a marvelous display of Poirier with eight points–, silenced the LDLC Arena and came back in the match. ASVEL pushed until the end of the match under the warmth of their fans, although the tenth consecutive white victory was inevitable. With 16 wins and only one defeat, no one in history had a first round similar to this one from Real Madrid.
2023-12-28 21:10:32
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