ACB: Real Madrid breaks the bad streak … with many sweats | ACB 2019

After four consecutive defeats, the targets are imposed in a tight match in Manresa, with Deck as the best player

Until the last second Real Madrid could not give a folder to the worst streak of the Laso era. The whites had joined everything: the injuries, the anxiety of each winter, and a rejonazo of the calendar, which ten days in Moscow two games in them and the visits of the Baskonia and the Efes. Four defeats in a row, what has never been seen since the Vitorian reached the bench, and that it could have been five if they do not get to tame a BAXI Manresa fight on time. (75-80: Narration and statistics)

It looked like it was going to be a Sunday walk as the first part went, with Jaycee Carroll and Gabriel Deck scoring 22 of the first 28 points of Real Madrid. But the whites, who closed the first quarter winning by nine and came to command by 14 at the beginning of the second, saw that advantage vanish when Manresa woke up. Little has to do with Pedro Martínez's team with which he only won two of his first 10 games. The five victories he had linked before falling in Bilbao gave him oxygen and validate an improvement that, despite these two defeats, is already undeniable.

The fight that the Bages team was going to give had already anticipated it Juampi Vaulet, an Argentine eave cut by the same wild pattern of so many others. As Deck without going any further. The Manresa raised the pressure on the outside, began to bleed balls at the bases of Real Madrid and Vaulet, 'Juan without fear', galloped against it and stabbed the white paint. His were the impulse that burned a partial 15-2 for the Catalan team and 19 points, the most in the game.

Real Madrid, with Campazzo besieged by the problems of faults and Laprovittola out of focus, was uncomfortable. Davis Kravish He made a cross in the middle distance (13) and, without Rudy Fernández and even without Anthony Randolph, the whites were missing who unclogged the muddle in which he had put the defense of Baxi Manresa. A squeeze that did not know how to leave until the last quarter, with Tavares rescuing errors on the opposite board and Campazzo already released. Only in the last quarter did as many points come out of his hands as all Manresa (13).