You “cut” one head, two sprouted! This is how it turned out the match between Real and Baskonia, which ended with a comfortable dominance of Madrid (89-74).
With wonderful pluralism in scoring and absolute dominance in rebounds (38 against 19) the “queen”, despite being lined up without Rudy Fernandez and Eddie Tavares. Lasso’s team went up to 15-3, which celebrated its 19th victory in the last 20 matches in all competitions!
Six players of the winners had a double-digit number of points, leading Jabuselli (17 points, 8 rebounds), Randolph (13 points, 12 rebounds) and Poirier (11 points, 8 rebounds). Tombkins returned after several months.
On the other, for the Basques -who fell to 7-12- only Baldwin fought, who scored 16 points and shared 6 assists.
The match
Real came in stronger in the game and led by Yabouseli, gained an early lead (15-6 in 5 ‘). The French forward was simply unstoppable and brought the team of Madrid to +12 (23-11 in 8 ‘), having 13 points in this period. The first ten minutes ended with a buzzer beater basket by Baldwin, which reduced to 25-17.
The “queen” regained a double-digit difference at the start of the 2nd period (32-21 in 12 ‘), but the Basques picked it up (34-28 in 15’). Nevertheless, Lasso’s team had more solutions and with an individual score of 14-3, it shot up to +17 (48-31 in 18 ‘). The first part ended with the hosts having “air” of 15 points (50-35).
With Koser entering the equation, Real escaped even more at the beginning of the 3rd quarter reaching +20 (59-39 in 24 ‘). Basconia tried to reduce the difference, but only managed to reduce it to -13 (63-50 in 27 ‘). With a series of 6-0, the team of Madrid closed the 3rd period with +19 (69-50) and essentially laid the foundations for its victory.
The guests fought and approached (75-64 in 35 ‘) starring Baldwin. Nevertheless, the “queen” had many solutions and left again, safely reaching victory (89-74).
The quarters: 25-17, 50-35, 69-50, 89-74.
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