Women’s League / 5th day. Faced with an opponent from Vendée in a “day without”, we found a very pleasant BLMA this Saturday, October 30 with a great victory (86-70).
BLMA is not dead for those who feared the worst, we are not going to tell you that he will be champion at the end of the season, but things are better and above all there are real reasons for hope.
We are not going to overwhelm poor Warley-Talbert but we have to be honest, from the first minutes of this BLMA – Roche-Vendée BC, we felt the difference, more confidence also in the ranks with the contribution of Katherine Plouffe, qualified since the day before in the same way as Marizy, in rotation from Epoupa to the lead. “I don’t worry about him, with this team he (Valéry Demory, Editor’s note) will very quickly rise to the top of the ranking. We lacked energy, aggressiveness, intensity, we probably pay for the accumulation of matches and apart from short passages, we were overwhelmed all the time, it was a “match-without” and if we play it 15 times, we don’t take it against this BLMA who absolutely needed to win and deserved it, whereas we looked for each other ” commented, lucid and fair play Emmanuel Body, the visiting coach, hot.
Well-deserved success
In this duel, the RVBC led to the score 2’10 with a maximum advantage of 3 lengths (21-24) on the wings of the Lewis-Franchelin-Clarke trio, at the end of a very rhythmic 1st quarter where we had blithely worn out from the 3-point shooting (12 the two teams combined).
The BLMA with now a real point of fixation in Katherine Plouffe, immediately took the right tempo. “We had to take it, otherwise we played the maintenance. With these reinforcements, that changes everything, we left the best attack in the League at 70 points (82.25 average before coming to Lattes). Everything is not perfect, but there are a lot of positives. When we can put this intensity, the deal is not the same ” observed Valéry Demory.
If sixteen lengths (86-70) separated the two teams in the end, the gap did not widen with a wave of a magic wand. At the break, after a mini-break (41- 32) with award-winning successes from Peters, Wallace and above all an excellent passage signed Filip (11 pts at 4/5), the Gazelles did not have a too reassuring margin (45-40) even if the 3 faults of which had already been penalized the # 1 danger on the RVBC side, Suarez-Utrero, was not the worst news …
Efficient rotations
The trend was very favorable for a BLMA which displayed a desire facilitated by enlarged rotations and offered the public beautiful sequences, translated on the notice board (56-44, 60-44, 64-50). The +12 at the start of the 4th quarter did not offer a total guarantee but the collective of the duo Demory – Mbombo Njoya could not let the gain of the debates escape. The youngsters, Kiavi and Rivière both scored, neither of the Gazelles remained fanny (3/3 Naigre at 3 points), Epoupa hit the ceiling again (16 rebounds), the BLMA turned to 43.5 % behind the arc and cut LFB’s No.1 rebound team by seven units, so yes, there was every reason to smile this Saturday in Lattes.
? A very serious match for our Gazelles who brought down the leader of the French Championship for their return to the Palais des Sports de Lattes! Congratulation ?
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Technical sheet
BLMA 86 – ROCHE-VENDEE 70
Quarter-time details: 25-24, 20-16, 21-14, 20-16.
Arbit. : MM. Bissang, Yahia Benattia and Mme Athenoux.
Spectators: 700.
BLMA: 31/72 including 10/23 at 3 pts, 14 LF / 22, 24 assists (K. Plouffe and Touré 5), 43 rebounds (époupa 16), 13 stray balls, 19 faults, – époupa (18), Peters ( 11), Naigre (9), K. Plouffe (9), Touré (5) then Wallace (13), Marizy (2), Filip (15), Kiavi (3), Rivière (1), Ent. : Valéry Demory.
ROCHE-VENDéE BC: 28/60 including 4/20 at 3 pts, 10 LF / 12, 22 assists (Franchelin 6), 33 rebounds (Bankolé 9), 20 stray balls, 21 fouls – Suarez – Utrero (17), Bankolé (9), Morrison (4), Monpierre (7), Clarke (9) then Franchelin (5), Lewis (10), Kone (9), Pedroso, Mbu, Ent: Emmanuel Body.
