The BLMA Gazelles bowed in Venice on Wednesday 24 November.
Venice, 79 – Montpellier-Lattes, 59.
Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio.
Quarter-time detail : 30-17 8-19 18-14 23-9.
Referees : Mmes Tomic (Croatia), Ignatiou (Cyprus), Vavrova (Czech Republic).
- VENICE: 29/65 including 10/24 at 3 pts, 11 LF / 12, 26 assists (Petronyte 7), 41 rebounds (Petronyte 11), 16 lost balls, 15 fouls – Thornton (11), Anderson (24), Petronyte ( 16), Penna (8), Ndour (4) then Bestagno (6), Attura (8), Carangelo (2), Madera, Smorto. Coach: Andrea Mazzon.
- BLMA: 23/61 including 5/17 at 3 pts, 8 LF / 9, 13 assists (Naigre 7), 33 rebounds (Naigre, K. Plouffe 6), 20 lost balls, 17 fouls – Wallace (12), Diémé (9 ), Peters (4), Naigre (2), Plouffe K. (7) then Filip (10), Touré (13), Kiavi (2), Rivière, Zemoura, Coach: Valéry Demory.
At 3’35 from the final whistle, the Gazelles of the BLMA were pointed at – 6 (65-59) against the tombeuses of Bourges during the play-offs of this Euroleague. But on the floor of the club of the Serenissima, the group of Valéry Demory took… water, a 14-0 to conclude the discussions ended on a little revealing – 20 (79-59).
The first quarter, well started (0-4) had made fear the worst since Anderson and the locals had chained by a 30-13 (30-17, 10th) by blowing up the Hérault zone. Completely uninhibited, the Gazelles gave themselves the 2nd quarter to pick up at 38-36 at rest.
Despite a new shine on the return from the locker room (15-4), they were going to hold the shock (56-50, 30th) until the final … that we know, conceding a severe gap but that the statistics returned in the end very logical.
