Breogán Stuns Real Madrid in Pontevedra (110-102) with Fourteen Three-Pointers

Río Breogán defeated Real Madrid 110-102 at the Pabellón Municipal de Pontevedra in their second preseason friendly, with the Lucense team controlling the game from start to finish and only relinquishing the lead for a few minutes in the final quarter.

Casimiro's Plan, Once Again from Beyond the Arc

Luis Casimiro once again opted for an offensive style of basketball with the three-pointer as the main weapon, just as in their debut against Sporting Portugal, and the result was emphatic: 14 made three-pointers out of 31 attempts from beyond the arc.

Breogán started strong with Víctor Arteaga—six points already in the first quarter—and Francis Alonso as key players. In that opening period, the Lucense team made two three-pointers compared to none for Madrid, and later opened up a ten-point lead (48-38) with consecutive makes from Tevin Brown and three-pointers from Alonso and Aranitovic. Real Madrid responded with an 0-8 run, but halftime arrived at 51-46.

The third quarter followed the same script: another ten-point lead (62-52), with Alonso reaching twenty points, and a sustained white response led by Tavares and Procida until 75-74. Real Madrid took the lead for the first time in the final quarter, and that's where the game was truly decided.

Those Who Decided the Final Stretch

The Lucense response had three signatures. Josep Peris finished with 19 points, six of them in that final period. Andrić scored eight in the decisive quarter after returning to the court following an injury that required two stitches. And Bolton added another seven in the closing moments.

The best player of the game, in any case, was Arteaga: 19 points and ten rebounds, the best rebounding total of the match. Alonso and Peris completed the trio of standouts.

The Context That Makes the Victory More Valuable

The victory carries more weight than the scoreline suggests because Breogán played without Danko Brankovic, Aleksa Ilic, Dominik Mavra, and Jonathan Kasibabu. Four absences in a preseason roster are significant, and yet the team competed for all forty minutes.

On the white side, the reading is the usual for August, though with nuances: Pedro Martínez debuts on the bench, the roster is scattered across FIBA windows, and the club just brought in Damian Jones to strengthen an interior game that fell apart last year due to injuries. Allowing 110 points and 14 three-pointers is, in any case, a stat worth noting.