Real Madrid endured Bilbao Basket’s tremendous comeback at Miribilla, who came to neutralize after the break a 17-point deficit in the second quarter, and the undefeated league that keeps him a solo leader with a tight 83-85 amid the continuing threat of ‘the men in black’.
A postponed match of the sixth day in which the whites, who angered Pablo Laso in a third quarter in which they received a partial of 31-14, began clearly dominating launched by the young Alberto Abalde and Carlos Alocen.
But then they had to make use of prominent versions of Sergi Llull (14 points), Trey Thompkins (16, 6 rebounds and a PIR of 22), Edy Tavares, (9 rebounds and 4 blocks), and until the last minute of the ‘Facu’ Campazzo To save the furniture, carry out a compromise that was extremely complicated for him and chain nine consecutive victories in the ACB.
Because Bilbao Basket returned enraged in the second half to chain a 21-2 that changed the sign of a meeting that became 27-44 shortly after the break with the French guard Jonathan rousselle in a state of grace (16 points with four 3-point baskets in the comeback) to help Ondrej Balvin, the main bastion of the set of Alex Mumbrú (18, 8/12 T2, 6, 3 steals, 5 dunks and 21).
Five points in a row from Abalde and Carroll’s first triple (0-8) began to put Madrid downhill in a game that in its first quarter dominated Alocen almost at will, who advanced his team by up to 13 points (10- 23) before those first minutes ended 12-23.
In Bilbao Basket the only one who opposed the resistance team was the giant Balvin despite having in front of a Tavares bigger still and also toned.
Similar was the second quarter, in which Thomson, Taylor and Llull took over from their young teammates to stretch a difference to 17 points (27-44) that remained at 15 at halftime (29-44) for a basket of Serron, the only place that would make Mumbrú happy with Balvin.
As in the first room With 10-14, the Czech center had given a thread of hope to his team, leading a reaction that put the locals within only seven points (25-32) 4 minutes after the first return to the locker room.
It seemed almost everything said in the first 20 minutes, but Rousselle rebelled against the fate of the match, went into ecstasy and with four plays of three points, two triples and two 2 + 1, she turned the match in three and a half minutes ( 48-46).
The partial conceded by Madrid, 21-2, it angered Laso a lot, who, according to his words in a time-out, did not quite “understand” the 17-2 that his team conceded at the beginning of a third quarter that, unbelievably, ended ‘the men in black’ ahead ( 60-58).
On 31-14 of those ten minutes, the fourth obviated more explanations and Laso put Facu Campazzo on the court., unpublished in the first 30 minutes. But the Argentine could not change the course of the clash, which was already on a path of equality until the final three minutes, which were still ahead of the locals (74-73).
But seven dots in a row white, including one of the several Llull baskets and another of Thompkins’ also several triples, and several errors from Bilbao decided a match in favor of the leader (73-79) that Bilbao Basket, however, fought with options until the last seconds (78-81, 17.8 from the end).
But Madrid ended up being undefeated against a much better opponent than expected by the 1-5 that he reflected in the classification and that, after losing by 17 points, he came back and dreamed of victory until the last breath before the clash ended 83-85. after a triple from Kulboka with less than a second to go.
– Datasheet:
83 – RETAbet Bilbao Basket (12 + 17 + 31 + 23): Rousselle (16), Jaylon Brown (16), Alex Reyes (3), Aaron Jones (4) and Balvin (18) -starting five-; Hakanson (14), Kljajic (2), Serron (2), Kulboka (6), Dos Anjos (2) and Betolaza.
85 – Real Madrid (23 + 21 + 14 + 27): Alocén (10), Abalde (9), Carroll (10), Garuba (2) and Tavares (6) -initial five-; Laprovittola (3), Campazzo (6), Llull (14), Taylor (7), Reyes (2) and Thompkins (16).
Partials: 12-23, 29-44 (rest); 60-58 and 83-85 (final).
Mumbrú believes that the game escaped them in ‘small details’
The RETAbet Bilbao Basket coach, Alex Mumbrú, regretted, after the defeat against Real Madrid in Miribilla (83-85), that the match escaped them in “small details” after the epic comeback they starred in the third quarter of match.
“We deserved to win just as Madrid deserved to win, but the small details have fallen on their side. In the last quarter we have been good in many actions and could have fallen from either side, but we have missed those shots and we could not win”, reflected the technician of the ‘men in black’ after the meeting.
Mumbrú also commented that before that outcome, Bilbao Basket was “well in the first half”, although “in three or four great minutes” the Madrid team “escaped too much” on the scoreboard “before getting back into the match.
Regarding Kingley’s non-participation in the match, Moses clarified that the Nigerian pivot “is not out” of the team, but that “he is having a hard time keeping up with the game in training” and that he prefers it to be the young Brazilian Felipe Dos Anjos, who “is doing a very good rotation”, who alternates with Ondrej Balvin in the position of ‘5’.
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