Kyle Guy performs in Madrid

The four quarterfinals were decided 2-0, but in two of them with a victory for the one who started from behind. One of those romps was given by Joventut to Baskonia with a sensational Kyle Guy (1.88m and 25 years old). The Indiana Guardwhere basketball is more than just a sport, perhaps as happens in Badalonacomes from a huge exhibition in Vitoria (36 points with 9 of 16 in triples) and another very good one at the Olímpic to close the series (22 points with 4 of 8). Some numbers that place it as playoff top scorer (29 on average) and the most valued (25.5) in front by Mirotic (23) and of a muse (21.0) with whom he will star in a fantastic duel of gunboatsalthough another thing is that they see each other face to face in the pairings.

To the guy effect the Penya grabs to put in trouble to the Euroleague champion, who took the two regular season games with some ease: 96-79 in October and 76-86 in April. In the first, at the WiZink Center, Guy stood out a little more (15 points), although without exceeding. So the guard appears tonight in Madrid, in front of a club that has him on the radar since Carroll’s withdrawal. “My colleagues trust me”says Guy, who adds: “If they need me to score 50 to win, I’ll try. If it’s only 5, I’ll do it. I have a lot of confidence in my shooting and in my game when I step on the court, but I had to work to acquire consistency and I am finding it now”.

For Chus Mateo, the shooter from La Penya is “determinant” with “Amazing percentages and averages in the playoffs”, but can not “Thinking only of him and having Parra, Tomic, Feliz, Brodziansky appear…”. “Joventut plays a lot in the paint and, nevertheless, in the quarterfinals they destroyed from the perimeter”explains the Madrid coach.

“If Tavares has to play 35 minutes, he will”

The two best rebounders in this League They have not seen each other in the semifinals since 2007, in a very hard duelone of the most remembered of all times, who won the Madrid of Raúl López, Bullock, Mumbrú and Reyes 3-2 against the green-and-blacks Ricky, Rudy, Bennett, Huertas… Real, after being crowned in Europe and not giving Granca a chance, has enjoyed six days of rest and preparation. “A little oasis”says Mateo, who in Gran Canaria saw “to Tavares tired”. “I hope that both he and Hezonja, required as a four in the Euroleague, have recovered and are one hundred percent. Against Joventut you have to give everything and if Tavares has to play 35 minutes, he will. And if the party doesn’t allow it, there will be a partner”. But it won’t be Poirierwho still has to get in shape after a calf injury that occurred just after returning from appendicitis.

There is a classic between the only two clubs that have played each of the editions of the Leaguefrom the first in 1957 to the present.

THIS IS HOW THEY ARRIVE

real Madrid

Youth Badalona

TEMPLATES

	pos.	Height	Age
8 Adam Hanga	TO	199	3. 4
6 Alberto Abalde	TO	200	27
3 Anthony Randolph	PA	211	33
12 Carlos Alocen	B.	189	22
31 dzanan muse	TO	206	24
22 Edy Tavares	P	221	31
30 Eli Ndiaye	PA	204	18
1 fabien causeur	TO	195	35
14 Gabriel Deck	TO	200	28
28 Guerschon Yabusele	PA	203	28
7 Hugo Gonzalez	AND		17
eleven Mario Hezonja	TO	198	28

	pos.	Height	Age
14 Albert Ventura	TO	191	31
22 happy andres	B.	188	25
88 Ante Tomic	P	218	36
16 Guillem Vives	B.	192	29
eleven henry ellenson	TO	208	26
twenty-one Jarrod Jones	PA		33
44 Joel Parra	TO	201	23
6 jordi rodriguez	TO	199	19
9 kyle guy	AND	191	25
13 Leonardo Okeke	PA	213	19
24 michael allen	TO	203	twenty
4 pau ribas	AND	193	36