Large victory (91-73) for the meringues against Monaco
MADRID, 16 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid beat AS Monaco 91-73 this Thursday on matchday 9 of the Regular Phase of the Euroleague, with an outstanding performance by Bosnian forward Dzanan Musa and maintaining cruising speed from his still undefeated lead in the competition.
The stands of the WiZink Center saw the eighth victory in as many games played by the merengue team, so far, in this competition. He doesn’t even need the match that is still postponed, against Maccabi Tel Aviv, to remain at the top of the tournament.
The meringues’ roller left the 2-5 partial with which the visitors took the field as a mere anecdote. The pair of baskets by center Donatas Motiejunas was a dead end, as Real Madrid immediately came back thanks to Cape Verdean center Walter ‘Edy’ Tavares.
From 8-8, signed with a positive action by Dzanan Musa, the locals began to open the gap without palliatives. Tavares and Musa himself appeared to be the most successful in attack, while Monaco was missing more productivity from Mike James and Jordan Loyd.
With a clear advantage on the scoreboard (28-12), coach Chus Mateo intensified the number of substitutions and brought in the Frenchmen Vincent Poirier and Guerschon Yabusele, who responded very well to relieve Tavares and create spaces that Musa took advantage of inside. of the area.
The 30-20 at the end of the first period made it clear that Monaco needed to apply better in defense to stop the rival ‘towers’ and not lose sight of the external threat, which had its high point with a very celebrated triple by Sergio Llull midway through. the second quarter.
After a scattered attack to the four corners, Yabusele miraculously prevented the ball from leaving the field and assisted Llull, who dodged a defender and scored one of his typical ‘tangerines’ at the buzzer. That shot had made it 46-26 and there were still 5:06 left until halftime.
Mateo continued using his tallest men and the Monegasque team found respite, to sign a 0-9 partial thanks to Motiejunas and the support of former Madrid player Petr Cornelie. That was until Rudy Fernández broke the dynamic with a triple, which made it 51-35.
THE CONSTANT THREAT OF TAVARES AND YABUSELE
In the last minute before halftime, Sasa Obradovic’s men tried to take advantage of Tavares and Yabusele’s break, but they lacked some skill. The play before going to the locker room exemplified this, with John Brown making a close call.
At the beginning of the third period, and despite two triples from Mike James and Terry Tarpey, Monaco suffered the effervescence of Facu Campazzo to maintain the distance (58-42, 61-45) and the reliability of Musa to distribute the game, as if he were just another point guard for the white team.
Fabien Causeur then joined his teammates’ scoring feast, raising the lead to +30 (80-50) on the penultimate possession of the quarter, following a triple by Llull on the side. Obradovic’s face was a poem of bad taste, hoping that the ordeal at the WiZink Center would end soon.
His team could barely make up for a beating that was certified by 18 points and left them with a balance of 5-4, in the group of those who want to avoid the toll of the ‘play-in’. For its part, Real Madrid reached an unblemished 8-0 and extended its great form.
DATASHEET.
–RESULT: REAL MADRID, 91 – AS MÓNACO, 73 (53-39, at half-time).
–EQUIPMENT.
REAL MADRID: Campazzo (12), Causeur (7), Deck (7), Musa (21) and Tavares (12) –starting quintet–; Yabusele (3), Poirier (12), Hezonja (-), S. Rodríguez (-), Rudy Fernández (3) and Llull (14).
AS MONACO: James (13), Loyd (2), Diallo (4), Brown (9) and Motiejunas (14) –starting quintet–; Walker (2), Tarpey (3), Okobo (6), Cornelie (8), Hall (8) and Blossomgame (4).
–PARTIALS: 30-20, 23-19, 27-11 and 11-23.
–REFEREES: Javor, Silva and Tsaroucha. No eliminated.
–PAVILLION: WiZink Center, 8,764 spectators.