the team that could have been and wasn’t, struggled to control its match in Bercy against Thiago Splitter’s surprising Paris, an anarchic and vertical team that plays better when it gets out of control. In the end, Barcelona managed to convert the French speed into precipitation and supply play to Willy Hernangómez, the best on the team last night, with 23 points, ten rebounds and seven fouls received, who dominated near the baskets (79-90).
It was the man from Madrid who inspired Barcelona’s game, well supported by Satoranski and the good minutes of Metu, who with 13 points became the patch when Barça was at its lowest in the last quarter. But Paris exhausted its energy with the extra effort of overcoming the barrier that Joan Peñarroya’s team had imposed, and paid for it in the final minutes.
Barcelona had played a very regular game, in which they only went off script in the second quarter, when their aim failed and they were left with 15 points, of course the French were not too good either and scored 17. The others three Barça sets were 25 points and they always kept their distance to avoid problems, except for that slump in the middle of the last quarter, from which they recovered immediately, with , to finish the game without problems.
Real Madrid, 88; Bavaria, 76
He had fewer problems getting rid of Bayern, although with 6.30 remaining, the Bavarians pushed to reduce the lead to less than double digits (69-60), although it never gave the impression that the surprise could occur. at the Movistar Arena. In a low-key match, the white team did not need to put in much effort to keep Bayern at bay for long.
The first half for the whites was impeccable. They went into the break with a 17-point difference and good feelings. It was enough to remain calm. Chus Mateo tried to manage the players’ minutes on the field because there is a lot of season ahead, so when things got a little muddy, Facundo Campazzo appeared, fresh as a lettuce, to direct the result in the last two minutes, and go from a disturbing six-point advantage to 11 points from the end (88-76). Musa, with 15 points and Hezonja, with 14, were the best scorers for Madrid, which surpassed Bayern’s eight points in the victory in Munich, and achieved its fourth consecutive victory.
