The limping Real Madrid of this beginning of the season is taking flight. After the impressive victory in the Euroleague against Panathinaikos, the white team closes the week with its most resounding victory so far this year: 95-67 against a Básquet Girona team that barely offered any resistance in the first two quarters.
The white team relied, above all, on the good form of Facu Campazzo (22 in PIR, with 14 points and 5 assists), although there were several players who added double digits in the score. The Argentine took command from the start, with 10 points in the first quarter that allowed the whites to take the initiative. Girona resisted thanks to Durham and his success from the triple. He was the Catalans’ best offensive resource, almost the only one, which led them to finish the duel with 21 points.
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Real Madrid (23+22+31+19):
Campazzo (14), Abalde (9), Musa (2), Ndiaye (2), Tavares (14), -starting five-, Deck (5), Rathan-Mayes (13), Ibaka (4), Hezonja (14 ), Llull (9), Hugo González (9) and Gueye (-). -
Girona Basketball (18+16+15+18):
Iroegbu (4), Durham (21), Susinskas (5), Fjellerup (10), Caffaro (-) – starting five -, Nnaji (4), Pons (-), Ferrando (17), Sibande (-), Ventura (2), Sorolla (2) and Fernández (2). -
Referees:
Fernando Calatrava, Juan de Dios Oyón and Carlos Merino. No excluded. -
Incidents:
matchday 4 of the Endesa League played at the WiZink Center in front of about 10,000 spectators.
The American was the best of his team also in the second quarter, which prevented Madrid’s advantage, where Hezonja and Rathan-Mayes also began to add, from going beyond ten points.
It was in the third quarter when Chus Mateo’s men made a direct comeback, with decisive contributions from Tavares and Hugo González in the paint. That difference in the inside game was decisive for Madrid to go on a 17-0 run and reach the last quarter with the game resolved.
The last ten minutes were almost a one-on-one between Hezonja and Ferrando from Girona before Mateo gave his first minutes to another of the pearls of the white youth team: Sidi Gueye. In the end, a comfortable white victory, which leaves the negative balance that it had in the ACB after its defeats against Leyma Coruña and Surne Bilbao and begins to recover sensations after a very disturbing start to the season.
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