Madrid granted a respite on the busy on the way to this course in the Euroleague. The white team comfortably won by 67-80 to the Virtus Bologna after four losses followed away from home. In the absence of five days for the end of the regular phase, the group of Chus Mateo takes air in front of a sunk rival in the lower part of the classification, although 5 triples of 20 attempts. Tavares and Musa with 13 points, and Hezonja and Garuba with 10, tied at least one vital victory to continue opting to enter the final qualifiers.
Musa was right with the first triple launched by the whites Garuba had opened the score for Chus Matthew with a ball thrown into Campazzo shortly before. The virtus feared the inner game in front of the Tavare wall and endured the pulse with the points of Tucker (8-13). Madrid moved as always to Facu’s rhythm while Garuba continued to make merits in defense in a very irregular season. The whites shared the ball with patience, chopped inside and out and threw the lock behind to knead a good rent (17-30 at the end of the first quarter).
Ivanovic’s men did not find slits in front of a very serious white defense: two points in three and a half minutes. In the whites, Ibaka and Bruno Fernando inherited the Tagus under the hoops, and finally Hezonja succeeded with the triple. Andrés Happy also added to the basket, daring to attack the basket. Madrid barely suffered against a virtus seated to some individual actions (33-50 at rest).
Garuba also plugged a triple and Madrid continued to open the gap. The script had not varied and the Italian team suffered to harvest each basket. Ivanovic did not serve it a more agile quintet since it could not compete in the melee, especially before Tavares. Also for legs Madrid was better. Virtus breathed with some exterior launch (54-68). The white team believed to have so dominated the encounter that was carried away at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the last one, and the rent was thinning. Tavares then returned to the track to close the clash. The presence of the tower under the two boards was the last arreón that the white team needed to fasten a basic victory (67-80). The Madrid now subtracts two complicated stops in Belgrade (Red Star and Partizán, this last duel on the last day) and the visits of Asvel Villeurbanne, Olimpia Milan and Paris Basketball.
Meanwhile, Baskonia once again took a step in its aspirations by falling by 97-90 against the Colista, Alba Berlin, which the previous day had dismissed the Spanish coach Israel González, replaced by his assistant, the Cordoba Pedro Calles. It was a film premiere. The German team did not win a Euroleague meeting at home since November 12 and only added four victories in the competition so far.
