On April 8, Real Madrid was risking their lives in one of the worst possible places, the Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul. An all or nothing, in frame and against a Fenerbahçe that arrived in flood in the second round of the Euroleague. That day Pablo Laso’s team showed (67-93) that it is made of another paste and went back to get into a quarter-final. It was the fifth consecutive victory over the Turkish team for a Real that little resembles the one of six and a half months ago.
The referents (those who did not leave) are at full capacity, the reinforcements are working and the infirmary is emptied little by little. The bad news, the only one for today’s game, is that on the double downward and already usual for Randolph and Thompkins joins Sergio Llull. The Menorcan, who seems to have recovered the repris at this start of the course, will not be available for some discomfort in the shoulder that dragged for days. In return Adam Hanga will return, who missed Sunday’s game in Lugo. Although the attention will be higher. In the heights.
The Two towers (Walter Tavares and Vincent Poirier) will face one of the few interior games capable of facing them on paper. “The internal battle will be decisive”, confirmed Laso Yesterday. Ahead of all appears the figure of Jan Vesely, along with Tavares, surely the best indoor player in the competition. Although the current moment of the Cape Verdean is higher, the level of the Czech makes him a difficult weapon to stop if he is in top form. He is joined by Duverioglu and a Devin Booker whom Laso himself added to the equation.
Sasha djordjevic
Fenerbahçe also adds this year to two old acquaintances from Vitoria: Achille Polonara and Pierria Henry, although the engine is still Nando de Colo. But for old acquaintances, the new coach. Neither more nor less thanSasha Djordjevic: white idol in that league title in Barcelona 21 years ago. More and more questioned his trajectory on the benchesEspecially after the last two disappointments with Serbia and Bologna Virtus, another setback cannot be allowed at a club like the Turk. In Madrid he has the first important exam.
