Cazoo Baskonia has confirmed its status this Sunday. “black monster” With their fourth win of the season against Real Madrid and Chus Mateo (88-95) led to a triple draw at the top of the Endesa League, which it currently shares with whites and Barça, while prolonging its good streak with fourteen wins, six of them back-to-back, in its last fifteen games. .

In a brutal battle between the two most valuable teams in the ACB, which is not decided to the end, the team that trusted the key moment the most won and was the winning team. he knew how to better control his emotions hitting an anxiety-stricken Real Madrid team once again and putting an end to their good league careers as they lost just one of their last fifteen games.

Real Madrid was better in the first episode. His dominance of the inside game gave him control over the scoreboard from the very first moves. Walter Tavares and Gabriel Deck like stilettos. The Cape Verdean imposed his height from behind and punished a Baskonia who had trouble scoring and didn’t seem to have spent the afternoon perimeter with their baskets under the hoop.

By doing a few more walks in their game and better executing their match plans, Whites increased their lead in the face of desperation. Joan Penarroya He had to stop the game early when he found himself trailing 15-7 after a counter attack that shouted on the flank and resulted in a dunk from Deck.

After the dead time, the scenario did not change and Tavares continued to monopolize all the attention. Those from Vitoria, 1/6 weaker in triples, with 50 percent accuracy double baskets and free throws and they lost the rebound fight, they lost twelve to the first timeout (27-15).

The Baskonia response seemed to come at the beginning of act two, thanks to the inspiration of Vanja Marinkovic, who tied together a series of good deeds and scored five points in a row, cutting the lead to seven. Real Madrid did not allow this and led by Rudy Fernández and the French Fabien Causeur and Vincent Poirier He immediately responded with a new arreón and a series of 11-4 that restored his composure.

It went from 29-22 to 40-26. With no outside shooting, Baskonia at least didn’t lose faith and kept working while they waited for the three-pointers to come, as they only hit two of their thirteen shots in the first half.

The quality of his squad allowed him hide and they gradually grew on defense, which gave them more confidence against the opposing basket and gave them the edge (18-24) in the second quarter, leaving the game open at halftime by just half a dozen points. the second twenty minutes (45-39).

A dunk by Sander Raieste and a trio by Max Heidegger In the first minute of the third act, he beat the lead by one point and set the alarms on the white bench. Dzanan Musa replied Despite being the worst news for Real Madrid, it was immediately clear with another dunk from Estonia and a spectacular block blocking the trio. the awakening of markus howard. Five points in a row and the first outside kick of the afternoon on the sixth attempt, the guest star equalized the match.

Real Madrid continued to struggle offensively with a few losses that Enoch took advantage of to put his team ahead minutes later. Started a new game but already with Howard at a boiling point and ten points in just over five minutes, he changed the outlook in favor of Baskonia (53-59, 26 min.).

Although the Whites did not seem willing to lose their fourth battle on the course against the Basque team. Hanga and Deck hit first and A trio by Rudy Fernández he left everything open until the last ten minutes (69-70).

Once again, the Catalans seemed to dominate the situation once again against the spaced Real Madrid, who had become increasingly difficult to see the rim and could only shoot three-pointers in the first four minutes of the decisive move. Until you see eight below, Hanga reappears as a savior After the match, which continued with 2+1 action and block, Musa scored seven points in a row and the match ended in equality again (84-85, min 36).

As the end approached, tensions increased on both sides, but Real Madrid hurt the most. Rokas Giedraitis Sealing the team’s fourth Baskonia victory of the season with five points in a row against an opponent that Barça and Joan Peñarroya coached at the head of the table today.

– Data sheet:

88 – Real Madrid (27+18+24+19): Hanga (11), Musa (15), Deck (21), Yabusele (2) and Tavares (12) -five starts-, Poirier (4), Abalde (-), Sergio Rodríguez (1), Causeur (7), Hezonja (4) and Rudy Fernández (11).

95 – Cazoo Baskonia (15+24+31+25): Heidegger (16), Howard (19), Raieste (2), Kotsar (7) and Enoch (10) -starting high five-, Thompson (3), Marinkovic (15), Giedraitis (12), Hommes () and , Kurucs (5) and Costello (6).

referees: Antonio Conde, Carlos Cortés and Andrés Fernández. They eliminated Tavares personally.

events: The match, which corresponds to the 23rd day of the Endesa League, is in front of 7,857 spectators at the WiZInk Center in Madrid.