Laprovíttola’s Barcelona equaled the Endesa League final against Deck’s Real Madrid

With a discreet performance by Nicolás Laprovíttola, Barcelona he won in a very tough match, very balanced in the game and very physically demanding, against real Madridwho beat 71-69 at home to match 1-1 the final series of Endesa League of Spanish basketball. The Buenos Aires base started on the bench and added 8 points in 27 minutes on the pitch. In the visitor began Gabriel Deck, who played 20 minutes and contributed seven units.

With the final tied, the action will now move to WiZink Center of the Spanish capital, where they will clash on Friday, starting at 16:00 (Argentine time).

The two Argentines had been figures and scorers of their teams in the first duel, on Monday, which Real went ahead by a 88 to 75. But this Wednesday, even if they contributed by themselves, they could not repeat their outstanding performances.

Bad start (0-8) for the team from azulgrana, who, however, took advantage of a brilliant recovery evening Nicola Mirotico, who woke up in the second room and drove the host’s reaction. After losing 13-17 in the first quarter, the Boat drew 32-32 before the interval. In the second half, the Montenegrin striker put the team on his shoulders and finished as the night’s top scorer with 26 points.

Laprovíttola, who scored 3-6 in doubles, 0-4 triples and 2-3 throws, as well as five rebounds and two assists, had good interventions when it was his turn to enter and with him on the pitch the squad .

The encouragement of his audience gave Barcelona a boost of energy at the start of the last quarter, when the game was very balanced, and allowed him to take a maximum advantage of eight points (65-57 in the 33rd minute) , with a free kick from Mirotic after Deck was charged with a technical foul, which angered the Argentine very much.

“Why me, why me ?!”asked the turtle to the referees. And the replay of the move showed that he was right: Brandon Davisfrom Barcelona, ​​he had slapped Fabien Causeur, of the real; Santiago’s man wasn’t even close, but they still scored a technique for him.

Deck, returned to the team in January “Meringue“After his surprise departure from the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA, where he was not considered, he finally finished with 1-2 doubles, 1-3 triples and 2-2 free, four rebounds and two assists.

Real Madrid resisted led by the claw of the French Guerschon Yabusele (scorer of 16 points) and the score was drawn 69-69 in the last minute. The American Cory Higginswith two free-kicks, he brings the azulgranas ahead with 27.5 remaining time and, at the last breath, Causeur misses the triple that would have given Real Madrid the victory.

Real Madrid – who beat Baskonia 3-0 in the semifinal – and Barcelona – who beat Joventut 3-1 – have defined the Spanish league against each other on 16 occasions, with 9 wins for the first and 7 for the second. The ‘Blaugrana’ cast is the winner of the last 2021 edition.