Its lair temporarily occupied by the European Women’s Championship, SIG Strasbourg had to find refuge in one of the neighboring rooms. 28 kilometers from the Rhénus, at the Forest Arena in Gries. Usually, Lassi Tuovi’s men come at the start of the season to play a friendly match against BC Gries-Oberhoffen. Except that this Monday evening, the stake was quite different. A quarter-final of the Jeep ELITE Playoffs, with a direct qualification for Final 4, in Rouen (from June 24 to 26).
Alsatians touched by grace
The Alsatians, guided by a Bonzie Colson freshly elected MVP and applauded when he entered the field, struck entry. With a Ishmail Wainright touched by grace (19 points including 5/5 at 3-point, 6 rebounds and 4 assists for 24 evaluation in 32 minutes) and an Ike Udanoh (15 points at 6/8 on shots, 8 rebounds, 1 pass for 22 evaluation in 22 minutes), the SIGmen did not hesitate to make lightning speak (6/14 at halftime). Deprived of Maxime Roos and Brandon Brown, the Metropolitans were asphyxiated, almost mummified. Except that inside, Jurij Zdovc’s men investigated the points (20 points in the racket) without however succeeding in taking the advantage after twenty minutes (37-31, 20 ‘).
Unrecognizable during the break and in cruel address failure (0/6 on shots for -4 evaluation), David Michineau (11 evaluation in 34 minutes) sounded the death knell by registering his first shot (41-36, 33 ‘). Enough to allow Boulogne-Levallois to take the lead again and to be up to six points ahead of an award-winning Bastien Pinault (43-49, 26 ‘).
The Mets 92 crack, Bonzie Colson sends the SIG in half
Less skillful but still as combative, SIG Strasbourg threw its forces into the battle to pick up from the start of the last quarter on a shot behind the arc of … Ishmail Wainright (58-58, 33 ‘)! Supported by a public fully committed to their causes, the Alsatians have twisted Anthony Brown (author of a 0/2 on the line at the worst of times!) And his teammates. When Bonzie Colson (14 points at 6/14 on shots, 7 rebounds, 1 assist for 12 evaluation in 29 minutes) sent his team to seventh heaven on a big 3-point shot (71-64, 38 ‘). In the end, SIG Strasbourg won 79 to 68 and will find ASVEL in the semi-final in Rouen in a few days …
A meeting that will long remember the referee Eddie Viator. Retained to officiate at the Qualification Tournament (TQO) in Split and therefore absent during the Jeep ELITE Final 4, the Guadeloupe decided to hang up when he was in Pro A / Jeep ÉITE since 2001. In the company of Joseph Bissang and Hugues Thepenier and greeted by the president of the High Level of Officials (HNO) Paul Merliot before the jump-off, this monument of French basketball has therefore said goodbye. Almost in anonymity, in front of some 1000 spectators of the Forest Arena …
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