Lackluster Real Madrid could not find a rival in Milan

In the preview, the coach of the white team, Chus MateoHe emphasized the importance of his team controlling the rhythm of the match. But the fluid basketball that the team he led usually offered was diminished by turnovers in the first quarter against an Italian team that was effective on offense and cemented on defense.

The sins on the chart didn’t help either. Walter Tavares He assembled two personnel in less than four minutes and it did not take long for his replacement, Frenchman Vincent Poirier, to join the three personnel when he saw him blow the whistle for two personnel in the attack and serve as coach while protesting the second one.

So that was it Mario Hezonja Dress up as five people and the others do their best to minimize the damage that Shavon Shields and former Real Madrid player Nikola Mirotic are slowly causing. What might be a drama for others is not so at Real Madrid, where effort is not negotiated and individual brilliance is no one’s monopoly.

Who did he give it to this time? The step forward was Sergio Llull. He managed to do this in the second quarter as well, despite the intensity (19-25, minute 10), the home team was trailing by six points, while the Balearic player added 11 points after the triple point in the last minute (42-42). , min.20).

The local team returned from the locker room shaking Tavares, who scored 6 of his team’s first 11 goals in the second half. But that ace in his hand lasted five minutes, the time it took for two more fouls to be flagged. Poirier stepped in again, this time more calmly and with the great version he presented at the beginning of the season.

He has the ability to be an accomplice in the pursuit of the quarterback he has to work with, Campazzo or Sergio Rodríguez, stepped up under the basket and contributed to the 12-2 run that was called for to break up the shootout. Milan avoided this and corrected course slightly, making the decisive move six down (67-61, minute 30).

The anger between Hezonja with two steals and Llull with eight points was extinguished without any response on the return to the court. All this and Poirier’s ‘alley’ with Sergio Rodríguez was too much for an opponent who took three and a half minutes to produce anything offensively.

From then on, almost half of the process was completed; feature in the early stages of the duel and any dose of oxygen Such a challenging schedule is golden for Real Madrid, who continues to make victory a habit..