Galka and her yellow fever make Madrid pale

Dreamland Gran Canaria is a great team, very well-worked, in which the hand of their coach Jaki Lakovic is very noticeable. A compact block with a variety of resources and very talented players. There’s Albisi, AJ Slaughter (16 points this time) and Brussino on the outside, a veteran like Shurna in great shape who provides balance (contributed 15 points), and Eta Happ inside who’s getting bigger, very refined moves to the bar. and near the basket, a center who makes a big difference (17 points on 8 of 9 from two), who is well supported by Lammers. They are united by a solid rotation with veterans who know how to contribute: Bassas, Landesberg, Salvo, Pelos… We saw it against Madrid this Sunday: 100-77.

Grança took the top seed position from Valencia in the Cup and is now fighting to get into the noble playoff zone and win the EuroCup again. Plenty of strengths and a truly inspired morning that saw him take a 57-36 halftime lead, making 9 threes (of 14.64%; 7 of 9 in the second quarter) and going to lunch with 100 points (62% of twos and 55% threes, 15 out of 27). Madrid fell apart due to success and local energy. Because in the first act it was difficult for White to score goals (25-9), and when they succeeded (27 points in the second quarter), they conceded 32 (21 from three-pointers).

“The Key to Advantage”, according to Lakovic, was at the start, with a superb defense that forced five turnovers from the opposition, that lacked the minimum required ball circulation and rode on individual impulses as they were ambushed and blocked under the basket (up to two covers received Departing Deck , who has not seen the loopholes in the yellow web). Alosen made an unsuccessful start, but neither Campazzo nor Sergio Rodriguez (although he scored: 10 points in the first 9 minutes) changed the momentum.

The difference was scandalous at the fork in the 15th minute, 46-21, and did not move much away from it at the end of the first half and the beginning of the second, despite the fact that Chus Mateo came out with everything that was available. . Something else was missing from Poirier, because he was needed on this day. And the direction, as we already said. Musa joined late… A collective problem on a day when there were few troops. At the 26th minute the gap again reached +25 (75-50). Rudy then achieved a sluggish reaction (75-60) and another flooding of the island in the final stretch, where they scored a maximum of 30 (100-70) with a minute and a half left. The yellow fever that sickened Real left him pale.

Increase

Is there a crisis in Madrid? No, what is there is limited by circumstances, the calendar and the demand in the Euroleague, which is difficult to combine every day with the rigors of the ACB, by far the best league in Europe. Talk about the calendar, about players who are going to play more than 100 games, if you count participation in national teams, is not a litany heard in the background, but a real problem. The Whites fell in Murcia with five casualties, despite a heroic final response, and repeated the failure at the Gran Canaria Arena against an even better armed opponent. The Merengue squad is large, but not large enough (and also veteran) to compensate for the absence of its four main players, such as facing a huge opponent with a single center (Poirier) plus the help of Ndiaye. Because there was neither Tavares (sprained his ankle with damage to the collateral ligament), nor Yabusele (still discomfort in one knee), nor Hezonja (received a strong blow in the match with Olympiacos between the groin and thigh); Lull too. Neither the youth team players Ismaila Diagne and Hugo Gonzalez, who were present as part of the Podgorica youth team at the Euroleague qualifying tournament.

Such shake-ups of great men will become common currency if nothing changes, as in the NBA, where it is not strange to see some of the powers that be fall with a bang mid-tour. New times and a great level at the top of the ACB, at the level of Gran Canaria, who roared with their people in the stands. A day they will remember.