Boss in this year’s “Clasico” of Spanish basketball Real Madrid!
After two comfortable wins in Madrid, Chus Mateo’s side took the match-thriller at the Palau Blaugrana on Barcelona (92-95)bringing out thus “broom” on the “eternal rival”, celebrating at the same time qualification to the ACB finals!
Leading for the “merenches” was Facundo Campacho with 21 points and 6 assists, at the time when Moussa (14 points, 7 assists), Tavares (13 points), Poirier (12 points) and Giabuselli (12 points) finished the match with double-digit points.
For the “blaugrana”, who suffered it Their 7th loss this year in 9 Clasicos against Realonly the amazing stood out tonight Jabari Parker Jr with 27 points and 6 rebounds.
Now the Madrid players are waiting to find out their opponent in the final, which will emerge from the pair Unicaja Malaga-Murciawith the runners-up leading 2-1 in the series!
The match:
THE Barcelona entered the game stronger and with Jabari Parker scoring 5 points, led 7-2 at 3′. Her answer Real Madrid it was immediate and even dynamic, as well, with an impressive partial score 12-0, made it 7-14 in 5′. In fact, the “merenches” continued to easily find the way to the opponent’s basket and with Campazzo and Giabuseli in excellent condition they reached up to +11 (17-28) in the 9th minute, before the “Blaugrana” reduced with three shots from Brithuela in the finale at 20-28 of the period.
At his beginings second quarterChus Matteo’s team with Yule’s three-pointer and Poirier’s two-pointer reached for the first time at +13 (20-33) at 11′. With a continuous counterattack and with their forwards Parker and Hernangomet, the Catalans “nibbled” the difference, reducing it to 3 (31-34) at 15′. However, Real “hitting” the racket kept the upper hand in the score, even with small differences, closing the first half at +4 for 49-45.
The scene was similar at the beginning third period, where with five personal points by Mario Hezonia, Real went to +6 (49-55) 22′. Somewhere in there though, Barcelona, with a quick 8-0 run by Satoranski, Abrines and Parker, went ahead after halftime at 57-54 at the 24th minute, with the two teams trading blows from then on, with the lead changing a total of eight times hands in the last five minutes of the quarter! With Rubio’s 3-pointer in dead time, the “blaugrana” closed the season ahead by 76-72, putting the “Palau Blaugrana” audience in the match equation for good.
In the fourth and final period, the match turned into a thriller as neither team could escape the score. And while both went hand in hand until the finale (90-90), two two-pointers by Campacho in the last minute and a shot by Tavares after a missed three-pointer by the home team 95-90 with 13 minutes to go, with Hernangometh in the final shaping the final 95-92 from the firing line.
The quarters: 20-28, 45-49, 76-72, 92-95
Source: Sport Fm
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