Madrid is falling into disrepair

Real Madrid have not had a very good start to this season. The results are not the same. And the game too. Veterans do not find the right path, and new ones do not find their place. The first public tensions have already arisen between some sacred cow (Mario Hezonja) and coach (Chus Mateo). There’s a nervousness in the air, and it’s not surprising because A white team has not started this badly in the Endesa League since the 2003/04 season, when Julio Lamas was on the bench..

The current Madrid adds a victory in the first three days of the ACB after defeats in Coruña and Bilbao and after eight seasons with a 3-0 start.. Only Casademont Zaragoza lost to WiZink Center. 21 years ago, White started 1-3.. They suffered setbacks in Girona and Lleida at home against Baskonia. They only beat Joventut in the league premier. Last season’s pace was devastating: eight defeats in the first round (9-8) and six more in the second (20-14), finishing the regular stage in 5th place and being eliminated in the quarter-finals by Estudiantes 1-3 .

If you combine participation in the Super Cup and the first two days in Europe, Real Madrid also has a negative balance. After seven official matches, the Madridista score is 3-4.. Last course need four months and 41 games to accumulate that many losses. They are 1-1 in the Euroleague after beating Partizan at the Palace and losing to Bayern in Munich. It’s the same thing in the Super Bowl, 1-1.: victory in the semi-finals over Barcelona and defeat in the final against Unicaja. The aforementioned 2003–04 season also saw a negative 2–3, with three games in Spain and two in Europe.. The Super Bowl has been in hibernation since 1987. He wouldn’t return until 2004.

Protocol at the trial

A poor taco outing that sandwiches the main stars. And this is worrying. Facundo Campazzo is a great representative. The Argentine point guard averages 26 minutes in the Endesa League and 28 in the EuroLeague, three more than last year (23 and 25 respectively).. Hezonja and Tavares are also playing more actively in the ACB compared to last season. The Croatian moved up from 22 to 30 and the Cape Verdean from 22 to 27. They are lower in the top continental competition. Musa, another standout on the team, maintains the same average time on court (second and second) as last year.

The accumulation of kilometers on the back has two clear reasons that are intertwined. On the one hand, if your team is not working, you trust everything to the veterans, the most reliable; and, the other, that the new thing, that the signed one didn’t go through and you don’t put it on the field because you don’t believe that they will pull your chestnuts out of the fire. This is a blue whiting that bites its own tail. Here is the criticism that Hezonja made at half-time in Miribilla: “Defensively we started well, then we played with more players, but the rhythm of course changed like this, It’s very difficult for new people to study, and for us to study chemistry.. We will have to work hard to do something this season,” he said during the break against Bilbao.

Transfers

Madrid have signed four players this summer – a plethora of new faces compared to last summer, when only Facundo Campazzo arrived. Xavier Ratan-Mayes, Serge Ibaka, Ousmane Garuba and Andres Feliz They landed to compensate for the losses of the retired Rudy Fernandez and Sergio Rodriguez (totems in white history), as well as the departure of Vincent Poirier, Carlos Alocen and Fabien Coser. The last-minute departure of Gershon Yabusele in August, when everything was closed, was a huge blow to the team’s composition, leaving Eli John Ndiaye’s youth squad as the only player left. four clean, which forced everyone to move in turn, in their positions.

A mess that would be less if the new ones worked from the first minute… but no. Ibaka has moved from high to low and Ratan-Mays has not arrived at this time.. Garuba is trying hard, but is now out due to injury. Mateo will also be unable to count on Feliz for the next five weeks, initially due to a fracture in the plantar fascia of his right foot which he suffered against Partizan.

The drop in performance is noticeable in his minutes on the track, mostly in ACB. Ibaka went from 15 minutes against Zaragoza to 10 minutes in Bilbao.. Ratan-Meyes, 15, La Coruña; 4 in front of Casademont; and 10 in Miribilla. The Canadian did not take the field in the last quarter of the first two championship games. The last one, in the Basque Country, is only 3:54.

This poor start, both in terms of results and performance, as well as Feliz’s injury and Yabusele’s unnoticed departure, mean Madrid should look at the market. This was before this valley, as Chus Mateo explained before and after the Super Cup, when he assured that with only 13 players on the roster, 11 seniors plus Hugo Gonzalez and Eli John Ndiaye, it was very difficult to have a season that could have been a shoot in 90 games.

Baskonia and Panathinaikos

“We have to be attentive to see how the team is doing and understand what we need. Our task now is to know exactly what we need to improve and where we need to attract someone.. This will probably continue throughout the year. There is no rush, we need to see how we perform, but obviously for two competitions with such demands as the League and the Euroleague, it is important to have a long squad,” said the Madrid native after the defeat in the final. Super Cup of Murcia against Unicaja.

A preventive call that has not yet been answered, and the result rule and time are counted according to the quick calendar: This week is the first double day with a visit to the Basque Country by Pablo Laso.former white coach, in the Buesa Arena cauldron; and then Panathinaikos Ergina Ataman. The Greeks land at the Palace for the re-release of the last Euroleague final. The Turkish coach, who has a better squad than last year, smells blood and is a shark: if he can inflict a fatal bite on the whites, he will not deprive himself of it. Bad opponents at the wrong time… Or the best way to turn the tide. Let’s see.

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