No one suddenly returns from the darkness. The process must be slow, and you can only move forward by recognizing the mist, but also the old radiance. Ricky Rubio, who never intended to stare at the sun, is experiencing a new dawn in a successful career that he himself had to stop, but also understand.
At the Palau, in front of a fan who prefers to enjoy him rather than demand him, and with a coach and friend [Roger Grimau] that pampers your progress, Ricky is releasing his basketball. In the victory against Real Madrid, in his first classic in the last 13 years and after 12 seasons in the NBA, Ricky did not even have to try a smile to show that the demons are being left behind. And with them, the knots that collapsed his game. It was his best game in his new life as a Barça player (11 points, 4 assists, 15 PIR) and Nico Laprovittola’s best guard, unleashed in his own glory (25 points with 4/7 in triples and five assists).
Real Madrid was competing well in the game when, after six minutes, Ricky emerged to impose his own script. In no time he had already accumulated eight points. And Laprovittola, who was grateful like no one else that Chus Mateo began to worry about the initial collapse of Campazzosigned up in a big way for the triples festival.
Initial Barça excellence
Grimau’s Barça game reached excellence in the first quarter (27-11), where the Blaugrana, in addition to denying Madrid’s interior play, hammered incessantly from the perimeter (6/7 in triples compared to the whites’ 1/8 in that initial quarter).
Although Barça, who managed to launch a 21 point lead (38-17, m. 15) thanks to a dunk that left Poirier without a response or hip, he let himself go for a while. Something dangerous against a Madrid in which guys like Llull and Rudy Fernández – who had never faced Ricky in the ACB– They tend to be epic no matter how much the Musa-Tavares connection didn’t work this time. Llull made two three-pointers, one of them incredible and at the limit of possession, and the whites had a run of 0-11 to which Ricky had to respond before the break. The El Masnou point guard, a thief like few others, drew a foul from Yabusele that gave him three free throws. Although Chus Mateo’s men were already beginning to advance what they would propose after passing through the locker room, no matter how much Llull blurted out before going to the locker room: “Our first half was embarrassing.” With the lost and delirious look of someone who wants to rise from the dead.
Grimau’s team, although they continued to have Tavares under control or Jabari Parker insisted on being the highlight of the afternoon – Campazzo was devastated by a dunk from the American -, they paid for the greater white defensive aggressiveness, necessary for the three-pointers of Barça began to be spat out of the rim.
Deck was already going to the mountain (14 points, 13 rebounds) to the regret of Kalinic, who earned the fourth foul. Campazzo, meanwhile, increased the revs, and hunted down a couple of triples, inviting Sergio Llull to follow him along the same path. Madrid came so close (57-54, m. 28) that a Palau in which John Laporta He clenched his fist with the same force as his navel to his shirt.
But that Madrid that seemed close to completing its uprising (73-70, m. 37) at the sound of Deck’s bugle struck, first, with Willy Hernangómez (in addition to the points, he had the pleasure of getting Tavares with the fifth personal), and, later, with Laprovittola. The Argentine, who had just sunk Maccabi with a three-point shot at the limit, took another three-pointer from the Palau firmament, when possession was dying, which made Madrid convinced that it would end there. Even more so after Poirier strung together a technical and a fifth personal foul that definitively left the Whites out of combat.
OK. The classics in the regular league season often have relative importance, beyond the fact that Madrid lost the lead at the hands of Unicaja and that the Blaugrana stabilized in third place. Although seeing Laprovittola fly, and Ricky dream, is priceless. The darkness is bloody, but it is being left behind.
Datasheet
85. Barça (27+18+19+21): Satoransky (3), Laprovittola (25), Kalinic (-), Parker (9), Vesely (11) -starting team-, Hernangómez (10), Rubio (11), Da Silva (5), Abrines (9), Brizuela (-) and Jokubaitis (2).
79. Real Madrid (11+22+25+21): Campazzo (8), Musa (14), Deck (14), Yabusele (10), Tavares (6) -starting team-, Rodríguez (-), Fernández (3), Hezonja (9), Poirier (4) and Llull (eleven).
Referees: Carlos Peruga, Martín Caballero and Francisco Araña. They eliminated the visitors Tavares (min.36) and Poirier (min.38) due to five fouls. They signaled a technical foul against the visitor Poirier (min.37).
Incidences: Matchday 28 of the Endesa League played at the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona before 7,726 spectators.
2024-04-07 19:01:50
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