Madrid deflates after the break, but adds another victory

Euroleague

matchday 23

real Madrid

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Finalized

Olympiacos

The first ten minutes of the match against Olympiacos were enough for Facundo Campazzo to teach a business management course, in this case on managing a basketball team, and optimizing resources to achieve maximum profit and minimum losses.

The Argentine point guard for Real Madrid scored six points, grabbed four rebounds, gave five assists and caused four fouls from the Greek team.

He single-handedly overwhelmed his rival so that Real Madrid went ahead on the scoreboard (30-13) in what seemed like it was going to be a walk.

With a partial score of 20-4, Chus Mateo's men took a walk around the field.

Everything was going well for them against the best defense in Europe.

Without Campazzo in the second quarter, things were still going well for the white team.

The Madrid player sat down to rest for a while, and Chacho Rodríguez jumped onto the field.

Although Olympiacos improved in defense, and Sikma emerged in the red and white team from Piraeus to become the most decisive man on his team, Madrid continued in good spirits.

Their scoring decreased, but their rival was not buoyant either, so the difference reached 24 points (52-28).

The Greeks were sparing in their outside shooting (2 of 15 in triples), and had had to wait until the second quarter to add their first assist, so they had to limit themselves to limiting the damage and preventing Real from taking off (52- 30 at half-time).

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But the trend changed after the break.

Papanikolau, who had gone unnoticed in the first half, appeared with his triple launches to make Olympiacos try to enter orbit.

With the invaluable help of Sikma on the rebound, the Greek team began to get closer on the scoreboard, step by step, but without pause.

Campazzo, who had everything going well at the beginning, got tangled up in his ideas and after a technique due to protests, pointed out by Carmelo Paternico, who became Madrid's bête noire until the end of the game, he had to sit in the bank.

The situation became almost critical in the last three minutes.

The white team had given themselves a break when, after seeing their temperature drop, they managed to stabilize their difference.

But Papanikolau, 30 years old, appeared again, achieving his highest score in the Euroleague (25 points), by nailing three-pointers, and that forced the Madrid stars to have to bring out his genius.

With the score at 82-78, Poirier put a spectacular block on Mckissic that could have brought his team within two points. In response, Musa scored a great basket;

After a robbery, the Bosnian extended the lead (86-78) and the score was narrowed with a triple by Papanikolau, the nightmare (86-83), but there was little left, and even less after the free throws that Campazzo converted, which He was critical of his game and that of the team: “The way we play at some moments is not the path we should follow,” although Chus Mateo downplayed the issue: “In the second half they improved in defense and were more successful. , but nothing happens, we have won.”

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