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The Kaunas “Žalgiris” team will host Real Madrid basketball players in the Euroleague on Friday. One team is currently leading the tournament and the other is only ranked 15th.
It seems incredible, but it is the people of Žalgiris who have won 5 times out of 6 possible, and here Pablo Lasas’s army has only 2 victories and 4 failures. Krepsinis.net offers a closer look at the Real game and a look at where this team is slipping.
Let’s start by looking at the numbers visible to the naked eye. There are special differences in the number of points scored: last season the Madrid team scored 84.4 points, and now this number is 5 points less, 79.3 points. The three-point hit is practically the same as it was (38.4% against 38.7% last season), and colones sales decreased slightly – 54.5%. now it is 55.9 percent. 2019-2020 season.
The most notable change is in the defense of Real, which now allows opponents to score almost 5 more points: 82.1 points against 77.3 points, which was last season. Not surprisingly, Real is now grabbing 5 fewer balls (30.6 vs. 35.25) as fewer attacks end in accurate shots from opponents.
Madrid’s own team has 3 fewer assists, and the utility score graph is particularly different: it generated 102.5 points per game last season, and now that number has dropped to 85.3 points.
Let’s take a closer look at Real’s defensive and offensive play, where data from the Synergy system will help. Both this season and last, Madrid’s players are shooting from a static position, where 1,049 points per attack, which they rated the scale as “very good” or sixth in the league this season. Shots behind the barriers also remain high and allow 1,231 points per attack to rank 6th, while a two-on-two combination is completed with 0.955 points per attack, which is second place.
The key difference that doesn’t work in Real is a quick attack. It is a team that has gone from defense to offense very quickly and has accumulated several points there, and last season accumulated 1,329 points during attack, which was the best classification in the entire Euroleague. Meanwhile, this season the Real are playing in an inaccurate fast attack, which is 0.917 points per attack and only 17th in the tournament. The difference in the numbers is as follows: so far 2.8 points in the fast attack this season and 7 points in the fast attack last season.
Real have been forced to play for a long time with the 220 cm tall giant Walter Tavares, who is not as tall as Jordan Mickey, who is good at a quick attack, but with him Real has a fifth better defense index and a third, if you count. overall attack / defense rating. When Tavares sits on a bench, Real has a lot of problems, as 18-year-old Usman Garuba, who has come up from the bench, has problems both in defense and attack. It is in the opponents’ basket where his numbers are the most modest: he only dispersed 4.2 points in 19 minutes.
Lasas has another option at the “fifth number” position: Trey Thompkins. The 30-year-old gets 13.3 points in 23 minutes and 13.8 utility points. It’s worth noting that T. Thompkins put together most of his numbers as a huge advantage as the start of the season was tragic for Anthony Randolph. The American registered an average of only 4.5 points in the first two days, then he missed two games due to injury, and after returning to the Barcelona park he spent only 3 minutes on the park. An athlete with a Slovenian passport showed his vital signs last week when he was in the Bayern bag in Munich in 18.5 minutes. he scored 13 points and posted an efficiency of 20 points. It was Randolph’s game that Real lacked, recording 13.7 points per game last season.
J.Mickey didn’t get any newcomers instead of “Real”: he wanted Ante Žižičius and was close to the deal, but for some reason the Croatian chose the offer from Maccabi of Tel Aviv. With no migration from the National Basketball Association (NBA) this summer, Real have to start the season with the highest rotation they have now. The Spanish media have no doubt that Real will have a new center in mid-December, as soon as players awaiting NBA contracts remain neglected and head to Europe.
Another Real player, Facundo Campazzo, is also involved in the NBA situation. The Argentine is one leg away in the NBA and this month may be the last for the Madrid team. Behind the scenes, the player is said to have struck an informal agreement with one of the strongest teams in the world league, so that he can now carry suitcases for a trip across the Atlantic. Campazzo himself skips this season and is criticized for showing too little desire and dedication, as he knows he will travel to the NBA. The 181cm tall 29-year-old captures the 8.3-point midpoint from last season’s 9.9. The average number of effective transfers dropped significantly, from 7.1 to 4.7. The median utility score is just 10.5, down from 15.4 last season. Not only does F.Campazzo create fewer opportunities for others, but he also realizes that pitches are much worse – he hit only 24 percent. (25/6) three points.
Already reviewing the summer work of the Euroleague teams, it was pointed out that the Real team was very bored in this area, since they recovered the young Carlos Alocen from Zaragoza and for 1.5 million. Valencia forward Alberto Abalde bought one billion euros. This became part of the five starters and shows an increasingly reliable game (9.2 points, 9.7 points), while Gabriel Deck registered an average of 2.2 points and 2.6 points of profit in 18 minutes, and in Barcelona he suffered a leg injury and will not play against “Žalgiris”. The Argentine also dreamed of going to the NBA this year, but such a tragic start to the season leads him to focus on events here rather than think about what might never happen.
Real also have some rewarding performances – two veterans – Jaycee Carroll, 37, and Sergio Llull, soon to be 33. The American sniper scores 11.7 points per game and that’s the best since 2012-2013. season. It is true that he has played 3 games so far, so it is a bit premature to draw conclusions. Here S.Llull increased his performance from 7.5 points to 11.4. 28.8 percent. The Spaniard, who shot three points last season, now takes 41.7 percent long shots. and this is the most surprising change. The profit is more than double: from 4.9 points to 10.2.
The pale start to the Real season has fueled rumors that the team is already rusty and in need of a change. However, there is no need to rush, because last year the Madrid team achieved 3 victories after 6 rounds, and on the day of the end of the season, 22 victories and 3 failures and the second position in the standings. It is known that in the “eye exam”, Real Madrid looked much worse this year than last year: 63 points for the Vitorian basket, irretrievably lost to Valencia (77:93), only two good quarters in Milan and a desperate first part of the match in Barcelona. Chimki in the Moscow region, thinned out by injuries and a coronavirus, won just 9 points (94:85), and the first convincing performance was last week, when Bayern Munich, who are “on the wave”, are 100: 82 ahead of the season. having achieved 4 victories.
There’s no denying the fact that Real’s lineups are really out of date: Thompkins and Nicolas Laprovittola, 30, Jeffery Taylor and Randolph, 31, Lull, 32, and Fabien Causeur, 33. Rudy Fernandez, 35, Carroll, 37. Also includes Felipe Reyes, 40, but has yet to play in the Euroleague this season and has only appeared on the floor in local championships.
Real remains true to himself and continues to base the game on triples, who have lost 172 so far, which is only 19 less than two points. Up to six players from far away have attacked more than short and medium range: F. Campazzo, J.Carroll, R. Fernandez, N. Laprovittola, S.Llulla and J.Taylor. Veteran Fernández scored a total of just 1 colón in 85 minutes and 24 triples, of which he scored 10.
The fact that Real Madrid is definitely not worth ruling it out too early is also demonstrated by the results in the powerful Spanish league, where they won all 9 games played. Last weekend a rematch was reached on a trip against Valencia (86:78), which was lost in the Euroleague. It is worth noting that Real dominated that match and the difference does not reflect the actual course of the match, as the guests controlled the match and led by up to 22 points. The victory in the Spanish league is achieved with an average difference of 15 points, which is also impressive.
It will be interesting to see how “Žalgiris” manages to defend with T. Tavares in defense, as rival centers cause a lot of problems for Kaunas, which we saw last week in the match with Vilerbana ASVEL or in the match won against “Anadolu Efes “from Istanbul, where Bryant Dunston was perfectly used.
The next month or two they will show what Real can really do and if they are still the elite team in the Euroleague. You have to find a good center and it will be difficult to get a turn from Campazzo, as good players who give results as soon as they arrive are a rarity. So far, the Madrid team is the one for which “Žalgiris” can pose a serious challenge and hopes of victory.
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