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Nicolás Laprovittola was a figure and defined the classic against Pau Gasol's Barcelona

2021-04-11T20:31:52.218Z


In Real Madrid's first game without Gabriel Deck, who went to the NBA, the Argentine point guard scored the decisive basket 4 seconds from the end.


04/11/2021 4:54 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 04/11/2021 4:54 PM

Many times questioned by the fans of his team, Nicolás Laprovittola was

the key to victory

in the great game played by the two biggest clubs in Spain.

A double and foul from the Argentine point guard

four seconds from the end

gave the

White House

the victory

87-85,

ruined

Pau Gasol's

return

to the championship and

cut the Catalans'

streak of 16 wins in a row.

Lapro

completed a roster with

12 points

(4-9 from the field with 2 triples),

5 assists and 1 steal

in almost 24 minutes.

Leandro Bolmaro did not add minutes.

Real Madrid, fighter in defense and successful from the perimeter (15 of 34 triples), handcuffed Barça (85-87) until the last minute, when the Barça team almost traced a disadvantage that reached 14 points.

It was the first game of the team led by Pablo Laso without Gabriel Deck since the Santiago native agreed to his arrival in the NBA to wear the Oklahoma City Thunder jersey.

The great performance of Nicolás Laprovittola

Decisive in the triumph of Real Madrid against Barcelona

In the return to the ACB League of Pau Gasol

, who was left

without scoring

in the 8 minutes he played, the white team was very solid at the Palau Blaugrana and, with three more victories than the Catalan team, took an

almost definitive

step

to finish the first phase as leader.

The presence of Gasol

monopolized all the spotlights

in the previous one.

The Barcelona coach, Sarunas Jasikevicius, put the former NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers at the start, but the protagonist in the first half was

the

Real Madrid

team game

with five players -Rudy Fernández, Laprovittola, Causeur, Vukcevic and Garuba - exceeding ten points.

The white team commanded in the first minutes.

Domino lowered the rim capturing 7 offensive rebounds,

drowning Mirotic and Gasol himself -they

both finished the first half without scoring-,

Laprovittola

pulled

the strings

of his team and Garuba gave a defensive lesson.

A dynamic that was maintained in the second act.

Real Madrid found in the triples of Rudy Fernández and the young Tristan Vukcevic (18 years old) the partial that was missing (11-0) to

leave

Barça

stunned

(36-22).

Laprovittola on the brand of Greek Nick Calathes.

Photo EFE / Enric Fontcuberta

The mentality of the premises

changed diametrically

in the resumption but Madrid controlled the actions in such a way that it was not

enough

to cut a distance that

touched its ceiling

when reaching 49-35.

From there, as if the group said "enough",

Barça

was reunited with the defense.

The pressure

on the entire court that Jasikevicius ordered, the

rebound control

 and the appearance in attack of the former NBA

Mirotic

helped

, in addition to the departure of Walter Tavares at Real for four fouls.

That allowed Barcelona to remain

only two points

 (57-59) at the end of the third quarter, after a partial in favor of 22-10.

When it seemed that in the last quarter equality would reign,

the soul of Real Madrid reappeared

and passed over an unknown Barcelona.

The white team pressed on defense, forcing the losses of their rival, and

did not miss from the perimeter

, with a successful Causeur, to chain a partial of 15 to 4 that again stretched differences (74-61) six minutes before closing.

The match turned into a strategic battle in which the hierarchy of attacks regularly overtook the defenses.

The

club

did not give

up and hand Higgins, top scorer of the match with 21 points, was placed

at 4 points to 2 minutes 50 seconds left.

Pau Gasol fights for the ball against Walter Tavares.

Photo EFE / Enric Fontcuberta

But the locals rushed, they

did not have the necessary calm

and Real Madrid faced the last 40 seconds with an advantage of nine points (83-74).

It was then that the game went crazy and

Barça

, led by Higgins and a triple by Mirotic with ten seconds to go, put themselves

ahead on the scoreboard

for the first time in the entire match

(85-84).

And it was time for

Lapro

: he received the ball, crossed the court, banked the attempted steal of the ball, held on with his body on penetration and released the ball to the hoop stumbling.

I bumped into the hoop, hopped off the ball, and landed in 4 seconds to go.

The converted free kick put the

final figure on

the game with an indisputable Argentine accent.

Source: clarin

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