2023-06-21 01:11:42
Barça regained the throne of the ACB League in a big way. On the fast track and at the home of their eternal rival, Sarunas Jasikevicius’s team put together a disappointing campaign so far with an unappealable 3-0 win in the final play-off. Thus, he imposed his choral version, with many players at a high level, against a whole European champion in which Tavares (19 points and 11 rebounds) was very alone.
Mirotic, in his last appearance as a culé, Satoransky, Jokubaitis, Laprovittola and Vesely, incontestable from the low post in the decisive stretch, went above 13 PIR points. They confirmed that, as in the two games at the Palau, in this series Madrid has been far from finding defensive solutions in the face of the torrent of different weapons that Barça has had.
Equality was the predominant note in the staging, marked by defensive intensity. One up for Madrid (21-20) after ten minutes in which they took advantage of the offensive rebound and a great hit from two. The whites lacked all that precision from the free-throw line, that trickle of points that ended up being decisive, as they were able to see at the Palau.
The duel went on between give and take until the Barca rush to open the second set gave Barça the first significant advantage of the duel (22-29). Chus Mateo frowned and called his team to chapter. He worked. On the back of the old guard, hallmark of the house, Madrid once again adjusted the first episode in their favor in the final. Causeur and the incombustible Llull acted as microwaves from the bench and pulled the car until they turned the sock around with a hit from the shot (41-38). In a final series of maximum emotion the tonic was maintained. Barça’s improvement in captures, a totally balanced aspect at half-time, had been compensated by Madrid since the reduction of their losses, a drag in the matches in Barcelona, to the minimum (two in the first 20 minutes).
vesely responds
The dynamics of a tug-of-war continued in the third quarter. It was Barça’s turn, with a partial 0-6 start. Vesely polished off his excellent mid-range shot and ex-madridistas Laprovittola and Mirotic punished from distance. Madrid reacted with the power in the painting of Tavares and Yabusele, their starting interior partner. Between the Cape Verdean and the Frenchman they produced 14 consecutive points and kept Madrid in the ointment in the middle of a colorful exchange of blows.
There were only ten minutes left and after so much back and forth everything was undefined (66-67). Jasikevicius’s team came out better in the decisive stretch and in a flash they accumulated a +7 (72-79) before the hottest moments. Too much concession to Barça’s shot, in very high percentages. Tavares supported his team as best he could with baskets under the board. Vesely, his Barça counterpart, responded time and time again in the opposite area, and the threat of a final white KO increased as the game heated up between the arbitration controversy.
Barça managed to check with a +8 two minutes from the end. The white fans assumed the defeat with sportsmanship and with the final already in culé territory recognized their own, Euroleague champions, with a standing ovation. Fantastic management from Saras’s team in the last few minutes. He gave his rival no choice and was proclaimed champion of the ACB League in all fairness after an immaculate final play-off.
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