Luwawu-Cabarrot Forces Overtime as Real Madrid Reaches SuperCup Final (98-95)

Pedro Martínez's first official game as Real Madrid head coach required forty-five minutes and a buzzer-beating three-pointer to decide. The white team defeated Dubai 98-95 in overtime and will play Saturday in the SuperCup final against Olympiacos.

Box score

The three-pointer that changed everything
Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot decided the game. The French small forward carried the fourth quarter on his shoulders with three three-pointers, and the last one, with 25 seconds remaining, tied the game at 88 and forced overtime.
Dubai still had the final possession of regulation to win it: Thomas Walkup launched a three-pointer that didn't go in.

Back-and-forth overtime
Madrid came out strong in overtime and quickly went up eight (96-88), but the game wasn't decided. Elie Okobo, the best of the Emiratis, brought his team back into the fight, and Dubai had a three-pointer to force a second overtime. McKinley Wright missed it and the final score was 98-95.

The numbers
Luwawu-Cabarrot and Edy Tavares shared the team scoring lead with 20 points each. Gaby Deck added 15 and Jaime Pradilla, 13.
For Dubai, Okobo finished with 24 points and Dwayne Bacon added 19.

For Luwawu-Cabarrot it's the third consecutive decisive game: he had already been Madrid's best player at the Costa del Sol against La Laguna Tenerife, with 26 points and 27 in rating, and stood out again in the final against Unicaja.

A final with recent history
On Saturday at 7:00 p.m., Real Madrid faces Olympiacos in the first SuperCup final. It's a rematch of the last EuroLeague final, played in Athens and won by the Greeks.
Three hours earlier, at 4:00 p.m., Dubai and Fenerbahce will play for third place.