Euroleague: Tavares was a wall in Tel Aviv: Real Madrid breaks its bad streak | Euroleague 2019

On the shoulders of the giant and Anthony Randolph, very toned despite returning from an injured month, Real Madrid won in Tel Aviv to break their bad streak in the Euroleague

It is an inevitable psychosis. Start by just seeing it all under the hoop, with its 2.20 height and those arms that extended seem to be able to touch the two band lines, and increases with each row that hits the ball. The jump flattens and the grin shrinks, although if Edy Tavares gets up hungry, it doesn't matter how much he wants the opponent to attack the hoop. (77-81: Narration and statistics)

Five plugs placed the Maccabi, making with each one the paint smaller than with the previous one. On the shoulders of the Cape Verdean giant and Anthony Randolph, very toned despite returning from an injured month, Real Madrid won in Tel Aviv to break their bad streak in the Euroleague.

Three straight defeats dragged those of Pablo Laso in the most spera part of the Euroleague calendar: two duels in Moscow in just three days and the visit of Anadolu Efes. It was not easier to visit Maccabi, who had not lost a single game at home this year, and the victory was not, as the 18 losses and 5/20 in triples attest. The defensive web that wove around Edy Tavares gave Real Madrid the last word in Tel Aviv.

Seeing Anthony Randolph's first quarter, it is difficult to know who wanted me to come back, if he or his team. The 'impassive American' uncorked the bottle with 13 points in the first act, the same as the average per game in the Euroleague. It was the livelihood with which Real Madrid endured the initial push of the Maccabi, led by Scottie Wilbekin (twenty-one).

On an income of five or six points the Israelis were managed until in the second part Real Madrid managed to turn it from the defense. With Tavares as a banner, Campazzo commanding the attack (8 assists, 4 steals) and Causeur drawing arabesques to finish near the hoop, the whites threw the padlock to the basket and set a partial 4-15 to take the initiative.

They no longer released her, although they failed to get rid of the Maccabi until the last minute: Tavares grabbed a defensive rebound on the roof of the pavilion and left Dorsey ironed in a lock so that Campazzo, released, will kill the match with a triple. End the bad run and win against a direct opponent by the playoff court factor.

Tribute to Kobe Bryant

The two teams kept a minute of silence in memory of Kobe Bryant and, in a gesture that has spread since the NBA, used the first two possessions of the game to honor the memory of the legend. The Maccabi let out the 24 seconds and Real Madrid, the 8 before passing midfield. On 8 and 24, the two bibs that I wore in his career and that the Israeli team players carried on the back in the warm-up shirt.

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