After only four days, only two teams remain undefeated in the wonderful Euroleague. And they couldn't be less alike. One is Real Madrid, a more than consolidated project, current champion, and which today seems to be an unbeatable machine. The other is Grimau's Barça, a newborn team that has only taken a few steps, but already threatens to make its fans fall in love with it. With the hells of Athens and Belgrade extinguished, his last work came this Friday, with a crushing victory against Laso's Bayern, which always has a special flavor at the Palau. Next Thursday both will face each other at the WiZink in an exciting classic that will decide the European leadership.
As if it were a fully greased team, Barça began applying the hammer from the beginning against a Bayern that looked very lost, also at the dawn of a new project under the leadership of Pablo Laso. Once again based on a glut of triples, which is beginning to be the trend for the Blaugrana, the scoreboard began to break down. Satoransky, Laprovittola and Abrines hammered the Bavarian ring mercilessly when it was not Vesely, who seemed not to appear on the radar of the Bayern defense, who was adding. The Czech center is emerging as the leader of a very choral team. A final tap by Willy Hernangómez widened it to 27-11 before the first horn. Laso became desperate on the wing and the referees gave him a technical warning.
A couple of good actions by Ibaka provided the only moments of calm of the entire night for Bayern but, as had already happened in Belgrade, Barça remained firm against each attack from the rival, and with Jabari Parker with a hot wrist and a lot of success capturing balls in attack maintained the differences and left the field open for the stopwatch to consume minutes, maintaining absolute control of the match. Shortly before the break, Grimau gave minutes to Nnaji, who responded to his coach with a couple of free throws and a basket under the rim to deepen the Germans' wound (41-23, minute 18).
The executioner so many times in Barcelona, Laso was unable to find the key in the locker room and the Barça display redoubled its effectiveness in a second half that allowed Grimau's players to enjoy themselves. Especially those who do not have many minutes, who were able to play with everything in their favor, and the points fell easily for the locals, who came to dominate 96-55 after a basket by Joel Parra almost at the end. By then, Laso had already thrown in the towel, sitting on his bench, listening to the crowd asking him to "dribble." The Palau party was epoch-making.
98. Barça (27 16 27 28): Satoransky (9), Laprovittola (5), Kalinic (3), Da Silva (5), Vesely (14) -starting team-, Parker (15), Jokubaitis (9), Abrines (3), Parra (6), Hernangómez (11), Brizuela (8) and Nnaji (10).
59. Bayern Múnich (11 16 13 19): Edwards (3), Bolmaro (2), Bonga (7), Booker (9), Gillespie (2) -equipo inicial-, Ibaka (13), Francisco (7), Obst (6), Giffey (2), Weiler-Babb (5), Harris (-) and Weidemann (3).
Referees: Tomislav Hordov (CRO), Eduard Udyanskyy (GBR) and Uros Obrknezevic (SER). Without eliminated.
Incidents: match of the fourth day of the Euroleague played at the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona before 6,519 spectators.
