With a swipe, Real Madrid momentarily frightened one of his ghosts. With a huge forcefulness (99-81)he defeated in the first game of the semifinal of the Endesa League to a unicaja that has stolen two titles this seasonEndesa Supercopa and Copa del Rey. The Malaga people did not look like the team of those appointments. They lacked legs after the hard series against Barça. The whites passed over them and had dinner at their ogre to link their twenty -fifth consecutive victory and also keep alive the streak of triumphs in a row at home: 28.
From the beginning, There was only one team: Madrid. For the huge exterior success led by MUSA (23 points with 6/9 in triples)by one Great ball circulationby one impassable defenseby The return of the best Campazzo (10 points, seven assists, five recoveries) … The best version of the whites with the worst of Unicaja were found. Some flew and others crawled. The consequence could be none other than an overwhelming result.
Facundo Campazzo makes an entrance to the basket before the defense of David Kravish.
In the first quarter, Madrid came out almost triple per minute: 9/15. He had won outside the Movistar Arena and now he did inside. White had only scored a basket of two. They did not need them before an extraordinary aiming exercise led by An infallible muse (4/4). Between him, Hezonja and Ndiaye, 9/12. It was the result of a close ball movement and hard blockages that prevented the defenders from reaching.
The machine also works in defense
And if only that … because The white machine also worked back. He had a defense in which hands appeared everywhere to steal or at least touch balls. AND If someone approached the hoop, he ran into Tavares (four caps). Normal that The difference will already reach 15 points at the end of the first period (29-14). Unicaja lacked batteries and Ibon Navarro did not find the key despite moving the bench. I didn't find freshness and several of His referents -perry, Carter, Taylor …- were well below their level.
Walter Tavares Tapona Cillian Tillie.
The energy that lacked the Malaga left over Campazzo, already at the level of the first months of the season. To the break he added a single point, but seven assists and five recoveries. His team took 20 advantage to the intermediate (51-31) After a few minutes of Abbey. Madrid no longer put from outside (1/7 in the second quarter), but the robberies, cons and free throws had allowed them to solve the clash.
Campazzo assured him by scoring the first nine points of the Madrid players in the resumption. Then took over Felizagain in a great version, to fix a maximum of 25 (63-38, min. 25). And to think about the following meeting. From there to the end, a couple of scares of the Dominican base and another from Garuba for two blows. Madrid added the first point with past ease. Unicaja has a hours to rebuild. This Friday, second assault.
Technical file
99 – Real Madrid (29+22+24+24): Campazzo (10), Abalde (9), Hezonja (13), Ndiaye (9), Tavares (7) -Cinco initial-, Musa (23), Llull (-), Garuba (6), Happy (11), Hugo González (2), Bruno Fernando (4) and Rathan-Mayes (5).
81- Unicaja (14+17+22+28): Díaz (3), Carter (3), Taylor (6), Tillie (10), Sima (5) -Cinco initial-, Tyson Pérez (4), Ejim (13), Kalinoski (11), Djedovic (7), Kravish (7), Perry (5), Balceowski (7).
Referees: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Óscar Perea and Francisco Araña. They eliminated Bruno Fernando for five personal offenses (m.36)
Incidents: First match of the semifinals of the Endesa League, played at the Movistar Arena in Madrid against 10,089 spectators.
