Poirier exhibition under the hoops in a launched Madrid

Waiting for the quick recovery of Rudy and Tavares, recent positives for COVID, and for Deck to start training with the team this week (we saw him at the WiZink Center sitting at the foot of the track with Causeur and Vukcevic), Madrid is weathering the pandemic storm much better than expected. After 13 infected players and four games postponed (three in the Euroleague), andn the ACB only has the Clásico pending, which will be played next Sunday 23, and in the rest it goes to the day and not in any way. Very solid leader with five more wins than Barça (and also three more encounters). To make it simpler: only one defeat for three of the Catalans. And what is more important, feeling of constant growth as a block despite having sailed these weeks in a rough sea. Of necessity, and it should be put in quotation marks, virtue. Without Tavares, the undisputed pillar, we have seen even more of Yabusele, the emergence of Randolph, the return of Thompkins and an imperial Poirier, like this Sunday against Casademont Zaragoza (94-69). The French tower piled up 19 points with four dunks and a single missed shot, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals for a PIR of 29 in 27:08.

Entre Poirier y Willams-Goss, with little presence on Friday against Baskonia, led the white lash that broke the duel in two. Because as you know, although some insist otherwise, basketball is not always resolved in the last five minutes. Sometimes, even, the sentence greets in the first five, as on this occasion. At the crossroads with minute 8 the result was 28-3! Ten visiting losses, three out, raised Real to a 10-0 almost without thinking. Five easy baskets near the rim and then very good ball circulation. From there, the statutory filling of the remaining three quarters and a half in which Zaragoza tacked on, with a successful Waczyinski, a partial of 4-16 to sew the gap somewhat: 32-19.

He didn’t get any closer, he even got to travel down 30 (70-40) in the best moments of Taylor, who chains several performances at a very high level and that he did not step on the floor until the third period, like Heurtel. Laso shot rotation and offered minutes to those who came from the dry dock: Abalde, Randolph, Thompkins (registered for the occasion in the ACB) and Alocén, who accused inactivity after two and a half months away by linking low back pain, a recurrent foot injury and the coronavirus.

Randolph was the one who again left a very good impression, this time with 14 points, 9 rebounds, 3 caps (eye, there) and a +31 with him on track. At the Casademont, Bone, Radoncic and Vanwijn tried not to give free rein to the scoreboard. Madrid lost concentration and accuracy along the way and that is why they did not reach 100. There were no overexertions, things had become clear at ten past five in the afternoon.