Real Madrid returned to the victory path it had meticulously followed since the start of the season until it ended Unicaja de Málaga’s streak of 19 consecutive official wins and beat ALBA Berlin (99-75), despite their brilliance in other encounters. ) despite having almost a hundred points and being backed by a large following Mario Hezonja (26 points).
The white team faced a match for the first time this season after their previous defeat. In this context, the last of the Euroleague is only the winner 2 out of previous 20 Between them, both in Germany and in this century so far, both seemed a suitable rival to regain confidence.
Additionally, things started to look up right from the start, with Hezonja driving the scoring engine in the first quarter. Facundo Campazzo He throws coal in the form of assists. The Croatian player scored 11 points with 3/4 three-pointers; and six passes were made by the Argentinian. In addition, the advantage in rebounds was 11-4 in favor of the team. Chus Mateo, These were enough arguments to explain the 27-17 score at the end of the first quarter.
But ALBA is a sticky group of contributors who have been contributing slowly and almost silently. Johannes Thiemann The best example of this tendency is that they do not despair in the second act, when the tempo of the game generally drops, and they both allow themselves the luxury of going three and a half minutes without conceding a goal (44-33, min.20). .
Also, there was no dizziness until the half hour of the game, there were just some people who wanted to put it on. Dzanan Musa. The Bosnian player, the lion in the cage who had not jumped on the field until then, came out hungry and took the responsibility of finishing the score that was already on track by scoring 11 points in the third quarter (67-51, minute 30).
The decisive contest, less intense due to the conditions, was a welcome spectacle for threesome lovers. Nine were seen in this interval; some were a kilometer long, beautifully crafted and on horns. Gabriele Procida. This was the culmination of the clash of extremes between the first and last in the table, which followed the predictable scenario and enabled Real Madrid to remain undefeated in the continental competition.
– Data sheet:
99 – Real Madrid (27+17+23+32): Campazzo (7), Causeur (5), Hezonja (26), Ndiaye (7), Tavares (11), -first five-, Deck (4), Llull (7), Sergio Rodríguez (8), Poirier (4) , Abalde (6), Musa (11) and Rudy Fernández (3).
75 – ALBA Berlin (17+16+18+24): Spagnolo (8), Procida (14), Delow (9), Thiemann (12), Koumadje (8) – in the top five – Wetzell (4), Mattisseck (8), Schneider (2), Nikic (2) and Samar ( 8).
referees: Sasa Pukl (Slovenia), Carmelo Paternicò (Italy) and Vassilis Pitsilkas (Greece).
Events: The match of the tenth day of the Euroleague was played at WiZink Center in front of approximately 5,000 spectators.