Real Madrid will play the third Clasico of the season against Barcelona, the first in the Endesa League, this Sunday (6:30 p.m., #Vamos), as the absolute leader of everything. from the ACB, with 16 wins in 17 games, five wins more than the Catalans who, yes, have three fewer games due to the COVID outbreak that hit them between December and January. And from the Euroleague, also with 16 wins, the same as the Catalans, but with an advantage of +35 in the basket-average and two less disputed duels also due to the disease.
An authority with an iron fist that is a little more frightening overall: if we add the two duels in the Super Cup, which ended with two out of two and Madrid as champions, Laso’s side present a devastating record of 34 wins in 38 games. It is the best letter of introduction since the 2013-14 season, the season of records, when in that period they sailed 37-1, undefeated in the ACB (they did not lose until April 27, day 29, against Valencia) and with a single stain, CSKA Moscow, in the highest continental competition. On this occasion, only Gran Canaria, in the national tournament, and Olympiacos, Unics Kazán and Barça, in Europe, have taken the Madrid team out of their lane. There is more? There is more: since 2014-15, Real had never dropped below six defeats at this point in the season. Lots of fabric.
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And he has achieved it after being besieged by the coronavirus, an evil that they have shared with most of their rivals, yes. Since last December 14, a total of 13 white players have been affected: Heurtel, Causeur, Poirier, Randolph, Yabusele, Núñez, Hanga, Llull, Taylor, Alocén and Vukcevic. The last two, Rudy and Tavares, could reach the Clásico. A health problem that will put the whites to the limit before the Copa del Rey de Granada (February 17-19) with 10 games (6 from the Euroleague and 4 from the ACB) in the next 23 days… although, yes, with the entire squad designed in the summer plus an unexpected reinforcement at the last minute, Gabriel Deck.
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The Argentine, returned to the club after his failed experience in the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA, is the jewel in the crown of a unique campus, possibly the most powerful on the Old Continent with the permission of Barcelona, which has recovered two basic pieces in the last two months. First it was Anthony Randolph in December 351 days after his Achilles tendon rupture, and then Trey Thompkins. The American power forward played his first minutes just a week ago against Baskonia in the Euroleague, once he had overcome his knee problem that had him in the dry dock for 44 games, just over eight months. Three more gunners for a scary Madrid, who still has a long way to go and who is aiming for everything this season after not winning any of the three major titles last year.
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