There will be a beautiful, a decisive three match, Saturday afternoon at the Adidas Arena. Forty-eight hours after winning fairly easily The quarter -final first leg on Tuesday (100-87, the Paris Basketball fell (80-79), at the end of a magnificent match and an unbreathable money-time, on the Dijon prosecution this Thursday evening during the return match of the final phases of Betclic Élite, the French championship of basket.
As they led 4 points at the start of the last minute (74-78), the players of Tiago Splitter fell in the final moments. “It’s basketball, blowing Parisian leader Tj Shorts at the Dazn microphone at the end of the duel. We will be ready for Saturday, we will bounce back. »»
Bourg-en-Bresse, who won his ticket for the last square after his two successes against Cholet, will have to wait a few days to find out his opponent in the semi-finals.
After their Tuesday offensive festival, the Parisians began the match in the worst way, failing to settle the sights. Embarrassed by the defense of the Dijonnais, they were completely unrecognizable. The best attack in the regular phase (94.9 points on average) remained aphone.
Maodo Lô put the ship afloat
If they had planted 33 points in 10 minutes Tuesday (and 65 after 20 minutes), they have to wait for the break to reach this total this Thursday. A score worthy of a minimal match but which could have been much worse without the precious return of the leader Maodo Lô.
While the leader of the regular season was drifting (32-22, 17th) and multiplied the failures with 3-point shots (4 out of 15 at the break), the German international (21 points, 5 out of 8 at long distance in the end), presented the ship afloat. “Fluctuat nec Mergitur”, as the motto of the city of Paris says.
On the return from the locker room, another match started. A Playoff match. Committed, intense, undecided, incandescent. Dijon, 8th in the regular season, which had to go through two play-in games, is worn by its audience and will not crack. Gregor Hrovat responded to the 3 -point shot from TJ Shorts and Axel Julien -author of a 3 -point shot in total imbalance but ultimately refused -did not tremble on the free throw line to offer victory in Dijon.
There will be a decisive match 3 on Saturday afternoon (4:30 p.m.) at Adidas Arena. The beautiful promises to be sumptuous.
