Real Madrid Loss: Scariolo Faults Players | Monaco Win

It had been almost a year since Real Madrid’s last visit to the Principality of Monaco, whenor the empty whites also returned of his journey along the Côte d’Azur. It was the day when Mario Hezonja dazzled and with that episode of the arm wound, skillfully revealed to the referees by Spanoulis, he made the Super Mariothat in seconds He received a double technique and had to take the path from the shower. The fairness of the refereeing was more than debatable, but Madrid was unable to face that difficulty with resilience.

This Friday, once again the Gaston Medécin was packed and boiling (it couldn’t be less, with its scarce 5,000 seats), Monaco reduced Madrid once again, supported by a powerful pillar at the beginning, Walter Edy Tavares and a magical elf at the end, Facundo Campazzo. All the others, except one notable Chuma Okeke, They were barely noticeable on the parquetSome even did appear, but not to help, quite the opposite. The marathon of matches that will take place these two weeks is off to a bad start.

The final result was little similar to last year’s: 100-95. This year Madrid is having discounts in defense. Once again he receives the hundred and gives very clear signs of serious deficiencies in that facet of the game. Direct blocks, that basic play that Madrid uses very little, are, on the other hand, insurmountable walls when the rival executes them and sees the comfort with which he finds the intermediate launches. Some video is required in Valdebebas.

In this context of weak defense, the Monegasques gave themselves the “papanoeles” with a display of successwho also scored three incredible baskets on the board, giving Monaco ten golden points, also charging Scariolo’s team for three fouls.

And because of that white weakness, everyone joined the local side; The perseverance that Okobo, Strazel, Nedovic and Theis showed on the hardwood was finally accompanied by the contributions of Mike James and Nico Mirotic: It was too much for the Spanish. After the deactivation of Tavares midway through the second quarter, Real Madrid found themselves playing the rubber until the endwith the game already lost even during Campazzo’s tremendous final show.

Two key moments

If last year the refereeing work was controversial, this year was notable in general. Except for the well-known couple of decisions that usually cover the local team, and that also occurred yesterday in the Principality. They were not specific, minor decisions. They were transcendent and, therefore, noteworthy.

On one side, a foul called on Tavares for a blockwhich it was, with the rival in a fade away which the Cape Verdean compensated with a legal stretch, punished by those in orange. He waved his hands Gigantewith an ironic smile, which was soon punished with technique: third personal foul and to the bench… the player who dominated every square meter of the court.

And another more than debatable decisionalmost prevaricating, in a struggle that united Campazzo with Mirotic, after a long pass, with both under the white ring. A lateral struggle, mutual contact, with the obvious physical inferiority of Facu, punished with an absurd unsportsmanlike acteven verified, and confirmed, on the monitors. A decision that, four points after the Montenegrinleft Madrid facing the final with 12 points belowfive minutes from the end of the duel.

Two black holes

Considering the poor choral attitude of Real Madrid, despite the reduced rotation proposed by Scariolo, few were saved from the poor offensive effectiveness. The end made in Hollywood of Facu, with fourteen points in just over ninety seconds, it made up the team’s overall figures. This year, Hezonja stood out in the disaster, who, for one reason or another, Gaston Medecin is bad at. Those vices of yesteryear returned and the Croatian submachine gun seized again, with 2/12 in field goals and six missed triples, a few poorly selected shots.

More serious if possible was the overall loss of the reboundwhich is the white team’s greatest strength. Much later, he ceded this facet of the game to his rival, with 33 sacks to Spanoulis’ 40. Beyond the numbers, the production of points after offensive rebound It was very inferior on the Madrid side, who barely got a mediocre performance out of his thirteen catches. On the contrary, AS Monaco did make theirs profitable, with the white ring unguarded, Tavares on the bench, Garuba and Len vastly surpassed by their peers.

And Scariolo, what does he say about this?

Well, there was a certain expectation for the subsequent words of the Brescia coach. It didn’t disappoint… or it did. It did not disappoint because it could have stayed with the usual generalities, the ones that all coaches usually offer when, with the game over, they decide to express their opinions with the usual diplomacy.