The Real Madrid crisis: the home court factor in the ACB is in danger

The Real Madrid crisis: the home court factor in the ACB is in danger

Real Madrid is having a very tough season. After starting magnificently, with the conquest of the Super Cup after coming back from Barcelona, ​​and riding at the top of the Endesa League with a record of 16-1 in the first 17 games and in the Euroleague with 16-3, everything has turned around to certify the worst crisis of the Laso era since the Basque coach landed at the club in the summer of 2011.

Since falling in the Clásico on January 23 at the WiZink Center, Madrid has accumulated 13 defeats in the following 23 games. Six (seven if we count the duel against the Catalans at the beginning of the year) of them in an Endesa League that has been complicated in terms of classification with 19 wins and 8 losses in 27 games. Figures that match his highest number of defeats in Spain since Laso arrived (2011-12, 26-8).

No court factor?

Their position in the table, second, is threatened by Valencia Basket, Joventut Badalona and Baxi Manresa. The three have one victory less, 18, with six games to go before the taronjas close the regular phase, which fell on Tuesday against Coosur Betis, and the other two have seven. It’s complicated, but the whites could be left without home court advantage in the ACB quarterfinals, a scenario that they have not traveled since the 2005-06 season, when they dropped to sixth place with Bozidar Maljkovic on the bench. In those playoffs, Barcelona eliminated them in the first round.

Home losing record

And unlike what you might think, Real’s weakness has come in their fief along with their fans. A) Yes, of the eight defeats in the league this season, six have been at the Palacio against Gran Canaria, Barcelona, ​​Andorra, Valencia, Baskonia and Manresa. Lenovo Tenerife and the Catalans are the only ones who have beaten Laso’s team outside the capital. Since the Basque took the bench, the whites had never lost as much as locals. The maximum, two in five the last ten seasons.

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