Barça 108-97 Real Madrid (April 10, 2022) - The Stitch

Real Madrid gave a lesson in honor and confidence and overcame everything, giving a good image against Barcelona. The team was able to do everything except against referee magic (the habitual one at the Palau), but we went there to play basketball and nothing is to blame our team for that

It was a perfect match today. A pessimistic would thought about it as the worst possible scenario because if you lose the crisis deepens, if the rival crushes you everything is magnified even more: a team go up and the other go down. But from the point of view of the optimist, which should be the usual as madridistas as we are winners, is a perfect scenario to remove all doubts, to show what shield you carry on your chest, why you deserve to wear it and be on fire into the season.

The most important thing was not to win, but to show that you can compete, because a priceless team was in front  (let's see how those in creative finance pay so much payroll, this people of the sports section of Goldman Sachs). I tweeted this myself when we were still on our way to winning. It was to compete and they competed against the fittest team in Europe.

Of course, the first minutes were painful. A bad start was culminated with an intentional foul, followed by a brutal crush, a failures in definition and triples against, which at that point they put us all https://twitter.com/MovistarBasket/status/1513196102044078088

The commentators were entertained talking about Heurtel and Trey's drunkenness, La Razón named it "farra", it wouldnt be so much.

Jokes aside about those already forever absent, the present players yielded. The caste came out, the success returned, the shots began to come in, and at the end of the first quarter we tied the scoreboard. There was a game to play https://twitter.com/MovistarBasket/status/1513198962513268740

The game would be tied during the second quarter. with Madrid taking advantage of the speed to even timidly get ahead. It had to be Laprovittola, to return the path of pain, the one who scored everything, becaming the best of them

Complying with the infallible law of the former madridista, 51-46 was signed by Lapro, harmfully

"We know what Real Madrid means", the athlete confessed on the microphone, after an impossible 3 point in an improbable play https://twitter.com/MovistarBasket/status/1513205433628037125

"Now we do look like a team", the team of Vamos spoiled that Laso said in the locker room. but the coaches, also Saras, were not happy at all, because of the points against.

Joy for the fans instead, the game was nice until the end, until eight tenths from the end (now we'll analyze it). Even so, it was difficult for us to get into the game after the break time, with the locals enjoying +10 advantages, although they never really went away. In fact, Yabusele played Yabuson from time to time... and Deck was showing up when necessary. https://twitter.com/RMBaloncesto/status/1513214688082989060

71-65 said the score starting the last quarter. The moment of truth, the moment to stop making a fool of ourself. And it was not done, not today. Llull scored a three-pointer and Madrid got to 1. Hanga, to the delight of the local fans, nailed a 76-78. Deck 78-81. Everything was going to decide at the last minute. In the middle of the quarter, Mirotic and Abalde had a hitch that ended with both out of the game, in a debatable solomonic decision https://twitter.com/SoyElChapu/status/1513224236789284865

But to what we were going to tell: finally we were playing the last quarter, competing and if we would won...better.

One down, 88-87, started the last minute. Llull was fouled, scoring 2. They weren't right on their final play, there were eight tenths left for the end of the game and Real Madrid was going to win.

AND THEN THE MAGIC

Was there contact? Is the rebound fought with claw?  There will be frames for all tastes, also for offense in attack. But there is the logic, the logic that you cannot call a personal foul in that decisive move, in a derby, in the match between the first two teams.

Laso went crazy, RM collapsed, despite the fact that Barcelona only scored one, and there would be extra time. https://twitter.com/vamos/status/1513224305341050888 < p style="text-align: justify;">When we wanted to realize it was already late: the 4th was not the last quarter today. Perpetrated the referee magic (which here we like to call microtinglaos) came the disconnection.

And it doesn't occur to me to be able to reproach anything: continuing to compete healthily after that controversial decision, in the matter of a final second, would be very difficult for me.

They razed us in extra time but Real Madrid came out of Barcelona very much alive. There is a team, they played well.

And if I know something about this institution... these micro-tinglaos will unite us and give extra strength to come back with more claw.

Laso and this team have not said their last word (hopefully, it would be desirable, that we have seen the last drunkenness)