2023-06-21 08:59:51
The epic sounded in Madrid, those rumors began to circulate through the capital of the white team, they began to dream of those comebacks that have already been seen on so many occasions. No team had ever come back from 2-0 in ACB. Neither had anyone done it in the Euroleague until Real Madrid did it. There were more reasons for the whites to dream than not to, and that speaks volumes about the mentality of a team that had lost two very tight games and still wanted more.
Barça was afraid, but they also had the confidence of being the team that was ahead on the scoreboard, that he had done a better regular season and that he had more easily circulated through the playoffs. In memory the semifinal of Final Four in the Euroleague, where Madrid had left them out for the second consecutive year.
The match started lively, with both teams going all out for the victory, looking for the rival ring but, above all, trying to avoid being found by the rivals, with very good defenses by both teams. Thus the first quarter ended with a low score, with a 21-20 score that showed that both wanted to win, but also that the intensity of Chus and Saras was moving onto the field. Madrid, however, had its kryptonite in free kicks, with a 2/6 that seemed like a small proof that something was not right.
Barça began to take the lead, reaching 22-29, the first lead for any team, doing it very simply: attacking effectively and preventing Madrid’s main value, Tavares, from shooting to the basket. Saras adjusted with Nnaji defending Chacho, but that did not help the whites not have their moment of comeback, with Causeur adding triple and 2+1, and above all, with the entry of a Llul who signed 8 points in just 4 minutes and that left the score at halftime at 41-38.
Barça gets its twentieth title
The second half started much faster, which was a festival of verticality and scoring, with Laprovittola unleashed and doing a lot of damage to Real Madrid. The whites weren’t going to leave the game so quickly, because they finally managed to find Tavares, who began to grow huge, was replaced with a Poirier who didn’t look out of place and ended the third quarter 66-67. a score with much merit taking into account the 9/17 of Saras’ men in triples, by a meager 4/14 of the locals.
However, Madrid could not stand the game against Barça, who found an impeccable score in Vesely (19), and who had a choral game that was practically insurmountable, with five players passing 10 points. He tried to test Chus with a zonal defense that didn’t work for him in Barcelona and wouldn’t do it now eitherquickly aborting the solution.
This is how the end came, with Barça accumulating income and with Madrid supported by a Tavares who simply couldn’t take it anymore. Nerves reached the locals, calm prevailed over the visitors, who knew they had it done and did not worry even when Madrid got within 5 with a three-pointer from Chacho with two minutes left. With one and a half to go, Mirotic made a 2+1, to which if the rumors that he is leaving Barça seemed like they could affect them, they have not done so at all, and left an 80-89 on the scoreboard and a sentenced game. He was MVP of the Mirotic finals, a final that he has dominated from start to finish.
End of the ACB season, end of the campaign with champion Barça, a Barça that has been the most regular team, that has fought throughout the season and that has blurred its rival in the finals. could have deserved more Real Madrid, true, but the reality is that beyond the old guard he has not had much to hold on to, with a Musa that has not appeared and having to resort to the magic of Chacho and Llul, the companions of a thousand and one battles that have not They have been able to with this one. Nor can one speak of a bad campaign for the Euroleague champion, whom his public has supported at all times after the end of the game. And of course, nothing bad can be said about a Barça that has simply been superior throughout the tie and that puts the finishing touch to a great season, with the doubts of Saras and Mirotic looming on the horizon. But that is another story, and will be told another time. Now it’s time to tell and celebrate that Barça is league champion.
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