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Real Madrid Basketball, explain the inexplicable

Believe me, I am more surprised than you. The most regular team on the continent, which had always adjusted its potential to the occasion to meet its expectations, has missed its simplest opportunity. A major surprise, easy to analyze according to the game shown, although impossible to clarify according to individual and collective potential. A mystery whose solution can only be in the minds of the protagonists.

Because in a championship far from the usual, the strangest thing was not the masks or the lack of the public. Even more if we think that he was the only one of the contenders for the title that was presented with the entire squad. And nothing that is said can excuse them, since, for example, their players have also competed many times with this unprecedented cup format, with their teams or in the Final Four.

The reasons for the bump may lie in poor preparation or an inappropriate mindset for the occasion. But this team has been playing by heart for years and its players have been tanned in a thousand and various battles. Neither in the games won did they hint at a bad physical moment. For lack of more reasons, defeats against rivals whom at any other time they would have overcome with great ease can only be explained in the minds of the players.

Real Madrid basketball in the final phase of Valencia

ACB

If the face is the mirror of the soul, the Real Madrid has shown little spirit. And I’m sorry to say it, because this has been another of the infallible characteristics of Madrid’s Laso. Competitiveness and the search for a comeback in desperate situations have been a hallmark that they have frequently stamped. Those downloaded bursts of pride that we haven’t even glimpsed.

On the contrary, in this Final phase We have seen a sad and serious team, without reaction capacity and playing irregular basketball. Also with overconfidence, with lack of humility, if we want to put it another way. And stumbling twice on a boulder. Not in a Chinese one, since a defeat can be excused, but the second against the Morabanc Andorra -91-75 with the league at stake! – is the biggest blur in Laso’s brilliant Madrid history.

We can pass up many details in life or in a game, but we should never allow attitude to leave us. The collective is more difficult to maintain than the individual, since selfishness comes into play and distractions multiply. Overconfident in themselves, but without the physical and mental strength of a few months ago, they played at being the hare with the lead head and feet.

This team that brushed perfection many times has a black present, but a hopeful future. One thing does not detract from the other, especially if we take a look at its history and its staff. It’s a vague consolation for whites, who are possibly as stunned as we are wondering who knocked them out. The answers are always in our minds.

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