Euroleague: Shane Larkin, the great base that dominates Europe with exhibits as they don't remember | Euroleague 2019

The American, MVP of the last three days, threatens Real Madrid in the duel between the two best teams in the Euroleague

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When Shane Larkin gaped at Zeljko Obradovic himself at Buesa Arena during the last Final Four, qualifying for the first time in his history to Anadolu Efes For the Euroleague final with an apothetic valuation record and 30 points, seven assists and seven rebounds, the immediate question was to know how the Turkish team will retain their treasure not only from the claws of the most powerful on the continent, but also the NBA itself where the base already had several attempts (Mavericks, Knicks, Nets and then Celtics).

The initial agreement of the team Ergin Ataman with his star, he was conditioned on the fact that no American proposal was serious enough for Larkin to give him another chance. Finally, there by June, Efes got the renovation, as Vasilije Micic (tempted by Real Madrid) had achieved before. The results of this whole bet have not been slow to become apparent: the team is marching like a rocket.

Collectively, what was the revelation of the last edition of the Euroleague, has confirmed all its expectations with a start of the course in which only Real Madrid and Barcelona can discuss their absolute status as a favorite to the title you never won. It does not go first by chance, in recent years he has made large investments in decisive players, argued in the previous Pablo Laso. Individually, Larkin's deployment, far from accommodating, is as brutal as it is remembered in the Old Continent.

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This is how the 27-year-old base of matted hair, son of Barry larkin, a baseball legend that was 12 times All Star. From astonishment to astonishment, after three consecutive days being the MVP. The boy who basketball helped rescue from the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) he suffers: he hated dirt. Despite the loss of Micic, the duel between the first two can not have more incentives, also for the three consecutive defeats (two in Euroleague), with which the targets are presented.

I don't know if it's fun. I have more fun when I win, but they are two leading teams in the Euroleague, two teams that were in the Final Four of last year, with great players and a great basketball show. I would like to win and have a little more fun, I analyzed with laughter the Madrid technician, who can count on both Llull and Rudy Fernndez –still unsubscribed by lesin Anthony Randolph-, absent last last precisely in the three defeats and recently renewed until 2022.

But despite the compliments to the collective (only three losses, eight home wins of nine and the second best attack of the tournament after the Khimki), Larkin's demon will undoubtedly be the biggest concern. Unstoppable one on one, without going any further, the former Baskonia made him 29 points last week at ASVEL francs, which also destroyed seven assists, six rebounds and six triples (for 45 valuation). Not even that was his top of the course, as Bayern Mnich scored 49 points with a never-before-seen 10 of 12 in triples. It averages 21.1 points per game, above 50% of success both in triples and in baskets of two and almost 90% in free throws. Only in two meetings of this Euroleague has remained below the ten: the only hope for Laso was that against Madrid, in the first round, he was one of them, although he won the Efes in Istanbul (76-60) after a blunt second part.

Of course, the Turks have not won in Madrid for 15 years. Talking about stopping a team that has so many weapons is always difficult. In the first leg they were decisive Simon and Singleton. You cannot say we stop Larkin … It will be mandatory to do a good team work in general, to be able to do the little things to do them well, a help, a rebound, any situation to be important before a team that takes advantage of anything, Laso concluded about his team's challenge on this January slope.