AS Monaco arrived at the WiZink Center with his Final Four team vitola and as the nouveau riche of the Euroleague. Tavares and Real Madrid, with enormous superiority, put him face down, shook him roughly and took everything he had in his pockets. They didn’t even leave him the money (91-73). ‘The Rock’, as the Monegasques are known, was not even a small step in the shoes of the unstoppable white team, which gave another stroke of authority. As if the 19-0 streak wasn’t.
Datasheet
91 – Real Madrid (30+23+27+11): Causeur (7), Campazzo (12), Deck (7), Tavares (12), Musa (21) -starting five-, Hezonja (-), Llull ( 14), Sergio Rodríguez (-), Poirier (12), Yabusele (3) and Rudy Fernández (3).73 – AS Mónaco (20+19+11+23): James (13), Loyd (2), Brown (9), Diallo (4), Motiejunas (14) – starting five -, Okobo (6), Blossomgame (4), Cornelie (8), Walker (2), Tarpey (3) and Hall (8). Referees: Damir Javor (Slovenia), Sergio Silva (Portugal) and Vasiliki Tsaroucha (Greece). Incidents: match of the ninth day of the Euroleague played at the WiZink Center.
Madrid was a perfect machine against a surprisingly soft opponent, who played in fear of Tavares. The center was not the best numerically, but he was the best in terms of impact. Their 12 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three blocks They weighed less than the panic that spread in the area. Musa finished with a rating of 21 and 29. Llull (14), Campazzo (12) and Poirier (12) They also reached ten in a choral victory facilitated by the non-existent visitor defense.
Hence the astonishing percentages of the Madridistas: 18/21 in shots from two and they were 11/21 in triples, made worse by the 1/13 in the last quarter, when everything was already sold. So much success made them take only five rebounds in attack and the first will come in the 28th minute. During a good part of the match, they moved the ball so well that they added as many assists as baskets. They finished with 27 for 30.
After a few first moments of slow play, Madrid took flight. Tavares imposed a climate of terror under his rimthe Monaco players flinched at his proximity and the giant secured the rebound to shoot at his teammates, almost always at Musa, who was inflated to complete counterattacks. He scored 14 points in the first quarter.. Between them they built a 15-2 run that upset the Monegasques (28-12).
No news from James… and even less from Kemba Walker
There was hardly any news from Mike James, well defended by Causeur. There was less to talk about Kemba Walker, a four-time NBA All Star who is not even a shadow of what he was. Only Motiejuna There was some opposition.
Madrid finished the first quarter with 30 points, 10 assists for nine baskets and only one turnover. He maintained perfection in the second, with a much improved version of Sergio Rodríguez regarding recent matches. He found Poirier in the alley-oops and then Llull joined the party. The day after his 36th birthday he holed out three triples in a row, the third, as he likes, of extreme difficulty, to make the WiZink Center go crazy. Afterwards, Tavares set a maximum of 22 points (48-26, min 17).
Only the fouls of Tavares and Poirier are worrying
The local cyclone stopped for the interior fault problems. Tavares and Poirier went to the bench with three personnel. With Yabusele and Hezonja defending the rim, Monaco saw the sky open: partial 0-9 to get into the game and reach the break with 53-39.
But If the visitors had any hope, Campazzo destroyed them with eight points in a row. Then Tavares started playing as if he were in Lilliput – a block on James and a brutal dunk – and three triples from Causeur, Musa and Llull sent the difference at 30 points (80-50). In the last quarter, the whites relaxed and Monaco applied makeup to the wounds. Impossible to cover them. He had been left disfigured after being run over by a machine that seems unstoppable.
2023-11-16 21:42:43
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