The last two cup champions will see the faces in the final of Gran Canaria. Real Madrid this Sunday (20.00, Spanish peninsular time; Movistar) in the place you usually step on, a game for the title. It will be the 11th final copera for whites in the last 12 editions. The Chus Mateo team recovered from a loose and trembling start and left the host without party. The 13 points and eight assists from Campazzo and the 11 rebounds of Tavares (back to the home in which he debuted when he arrived in Spain from Cape Verde) riveted the Jaka Lakovic group. Real Madrid will play for their 30th Cup.
The first ball is usually played by Tavares. It is the letter of presentation of Madrid: here the giant. This time it was wrong in front of Tobey near the hoop just like Albicy from the perimeter against Campazzo. The failures marked a squalid start, a 2-2 until after almost five minutes of semifinal. The deviant shots and the losses of the ball occurred, even in the hands of life insurance such as the FACU. The clash with Albicy aimed to be a teeth pain for the Argentine. A forest of arms surrounded the other white pillar, Tavares, when he received. Madrid did not find fluidity even with Hezonja’s exit. The men of Chus Matthew left a rickety record: only three baskets at stake in the first quarter. Gran Canaria took advantage of the carpet and hairs, Conditt and Homesley added to the basket: 16-10. Seen what was seen, the destruction was lower for whites.
Each basket demanded liters of sweat. Tobey plugged Bruno Fernando and the blockade cost the Angolan a ticket to the bench. to the ring that the track had turned. There they danced the yellow, more agile of legs and mind. Madrid received a blow after another, disoriented: a triple of Shurna, an incursion of Homesley … Chus Mateo ordered stop when the wound was bleeding (24-12). An unrecognizable Campazzo was the image of impotence. The rebellion was just a matter of Hezonja, converted in leader. With that resource of balls to Croatian and a series, yes, of good defenses, Madrid returned to life (27-26). The Gran Canaria had turned off the lights in attack: almost four minutes without scoring and a partial 0-11. Campazzo shouted the first triple converted by the whites after 11 attempts and imitated Musa. The champions managed to hide a gray version and reach rest in the fight (31-30). When the creation did not work, it was the demolition.
I was not willing to leave that file. The base stuck two triples in a row and attended Musa in the race, Tavares code to rebound and score, and Abalde delivered another exterior bingo. When he wanted to realize, Gran Canaria had fit a slap, a 0-13 that steep the night (35-43). Of course, it was not a matter of lowering his arms and with the same speed with which he was beaten, he hit: 7-0. Campazzo, Tobey and Hezonja exchanged distant successes. The shooting favored the whites, ahead in the result and with more ammunition: 47-55 at the end of the third quarter.
Hugo González’s youth energy to recover a ball was the sign that Madrid landed in the outcome with the game and mood in favor. The rookie accompanied Captain Llull to put the lace (53-66). The defense did not loosen up to an exhausted Gran Canaria and bulge the score.
“This season the road will be very different,” he had warned before the renewal of the squad. It is true, it has been, but the goal is the same.
