Llull is no longer a kid (but don't celebrate his funeral yet)
- lasantiaguinarm
- 14 oct 2022
- 2 Min. de lectura
Llull is no longer a kid (but don't celebrate his funeral yet). Sometimes sport is that inch that makes the ball go in or out. Yesterday the ball did not enter
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If we only go for a moment to the last seconds we see the fine line that there are many days in basketball between winning or losing. Llull's ball could perfectly have gone in. He doesn't make a comfortable shot, but he doesn't make an impossible one either; he manages to carve out some space. Even the rebound is a matter of centimeters, it can be seen in the anger that remains under the board. If the ball had entered today we would be talking about Madrid having a day of caste in Barcelona and leaving the azulgrana squad in crisis. But it didn't go in.
And now, everything else. Real Madrid lacked regularity, Chus Mateo himself said at the end. We were rowing the whole game, and we almost got it, a pity. That would be the first good news: the team tried it to the end, recognizable DNA. If there is a day to lose against the eternal rival... it was yesterday, that is the other palliative thing.
In fact, we are losing this match almost every year. It is later when we must not fail.
And Llull. He had time for many other things in the last action. He could think more in the whole team, and not throw the usual mandarina. He could penetrate, even force the foul or a released shot. But he did what he has done so many times, but this time it didn't go in.
The partial ones of him, the critics of him point out (there are those in good faith and in bad faith) they are no longer the best. It is true that he has to give way to more role minutes, but that is when the teammates are healthy. Campazzo doesn't come and there are a few players down. So we have to take it easy. And age spares no one, he is almost 35. But let no one celebrate his funeral. In the broad sense of the expression: first because he is not sportingly dead, and second because there is nothing to celebrate about it. If there is something to celebrate, in the medium term, it is his extraordinary career, not his departure. Let's honor our own guys. To that player who, baskets like yesterday's, has scored hundreds, not dozens, making us get up from our seats with emotion.
Llull will always be Llull. That guy you can give the decisive ball to, because he won't burn his hands. And many times the ball will enter. No, don't celebrate his funeral, the last dance hasn't arrived yet.
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