Add and follow the Real Madrid that travels at cruising speed. This time, the victim of Sergio Scariolo was the Basketball Girona (112-76)who tried to stand up, but gave up in the face of the offensive gale of the whites who have already achieved their eighth consecutive victory in Endesa League. [Narración y estadísticas del partido]
There was no color. Madrid took another step forward in front of their fans and made their intentions clear from the first quarter. The Catalans kept the pulse until the final moments of the second quarter, but from then on they could do little.
If they went to the locker room with a 10 lead, the Madridistas gave the final blow in the third quarter. A scoring festival by the hand of Lyles which was enough to leave everything seen for sentencing. They did not relax in the fourth quarter and surpassed the 100-point barrier for the fifth time this season.
Andrés Feliz, during the match against Basketball Girona.
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With this victory, Real Madrid remains at the top of the table along with Valencia Basket. Now they put the focus on the Euroleague with a double weekday shift versus Olimpia Milan y Paris Basketball.
No surprises
Sergio Scariolo fulfilled his idea of rotating in the league, but this time he sent big, leaving in the stands Tavares, Hezonja y Deck. Without three of their main pillars, the objective was to open the gap as soon as possible and, from there, set the tempo of the confrontation.
Along these lines, the white team opted for triples quite successfully. His first nine points came from a distance, with a successful outside shot from Canadian Trey Lyles and two more from the young Italian Gabriele Procida, who has plenty of nerve to take advantage of opportunities when they are given to him.
The white team’s lead rose to nine points, at which point some good minutes from Nikola Maric brought the visitors closer, taking advantage of the rival’s changes.
That upward trend for Girona continued until the start of the second quarter, when a 7-13 run that included two consecutive triples by Derek Needham (6 of 8 in total for the team in the ten minutes until the intermission) forced a tie (35-35, m.14).
Procida, during the match against Basketball Girona.
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Real Madrid responded forcefully, with a 10-3 score unleashed by Chuma Okeke, who did half of the scoring work.
It was the appetizer of two distant successes without reply from Facundo Campazzo and Alberto Abalde that allowed their team to jump over the psychological barrier of ten points and, in the end, go into halftime winning 59-49 thanks also in large part to dominance on the rebound.
What seemed well on track for the host ended up coming to fruition in the opening five minutes of the third quarter. With shooting problems for the Girona side (5 of 18 in field goals until half an hour), those in white were opening the gap until they reached double ten points of advantage heading into the decisive quarter (86-65, m.30).
The remaining ten minutes were inconsequential for a local team that had already reached a hundred points with four minutes remaining and thus added its eighth consecutive victory in all competitions, number 36 in a row on its home field in the league.
Real Madrid 112-76 Basketball Girona
Real Madrid (28+31+27+26): Campazzo (10), Feliz (9), Procida (15), Lyles (16), Len (7), -starting five-, Maledon (10), Llull (4), Krämer (13), Okeke (6), Garuba (7), Abalde (3), Almansa (12).
Basketball Girona (22+27+16+11): Livingston (10), Needham (10), Sergi Martínez (9), Geben (8), Juan Fernández (4) -starting five-, Busquets (9), Maric (12), Susinskas (-), Hollanders (-), Hughes (9), Vildoza (3), Ferrando (2).
Referees: Carlos Peruga, Alberto Baena and Fabio Fernández. No eliminated.
incidences: Matchday 10 of the Endesa League played at the Movistar Arena in Madrid in front of 6,807 spectators. In the run-up, French point guard Theo Maledon received the November MVP award in the competition from Rudy Fernández.
