Real Madrid responds to Unicaja and Barça loses the course again

Real Madrid won (86-73) this Sunday at Joventut on day 19 of the Endesa League to maintain its leadership against the push of Unicaja, which surpassed (94-73) to Baskonia, while Barça stumbled upon a slope house before the Baxi Manresa.

Those of Chus Mateo jumped to Movistar Arena in search of defending the head of the league without Facundo Campazzo, low last minute for his recent paternity. The ‘Penya’, in good dynamics, planted face until Madrid pressed his teeth in defense in the last quarter and endorsed a 20-3 partial in the final minutes.

The whites had a great Dzanan Musa in the first half, where he scored 16 of their 21 points, but in the second part they took a choral version in a match that meant the debut of Dennis Smith Jr. Alberto Abalde and Andrés Feliz Defensive level and Mario Hezonja gave the points with nine in the last quarter.

Madrid thus linked his seventh victory followed in Liga Endesa, after losing during the week against Monaco in Euroleague, to continue leading the table with the same 15 wins as Unicaja. Those of Badalona stay in 12. Before, those of Ibon Navarro passed over Baskonia in Martín Carpena.

The second quarter of Unicaja shattered the Basques, outside the area of ​​’playoffs’, and taught the road to the Andalusians. Alberto Díaz (18 of valuation) put the Malaga label to a match where the premises had five players in double scoring digits. A 7 of 27 in triples, he struck those of Pablo Laso.

Meanwhile, Barça seems again aimlessly after falling (92-103) against Baxi Manresa at home, in addition to the last two defeats in Euroleague. A good streak in the fourth final of an almost missing until then Kevin Punter seemed to put in the match of Joan Peñarroya, but the culé team succumbed to the exhibition of Derrick Alston JR (29 points, 29 of valuation).

Diego Ocampo endorsed a third part of 17-32 in the Palau that was unable to lift a decomposed Barça as in the bad dynamics that seemed to have left behind. A 6 of 19 in triples did not help those of Peñarroya, who remain eighth in 10 wins, for the 11 of the Bages.

In addition, in ‘Top 4’ dynamics, Laguna Tenerife defeated (96-83) to the Breogán River in its fourteenth victory. Gio Shermadini, with 21 valuation, and Fran Guerra, led the Aurinegro team. For its part, the Surne Bilbao Basket stopped its streak of four defeats in a row with a great performance (91-75) against Lleida hypos to prevent a greater burden with respect to the descent positions.