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BBC Nyon tripped one of the unbeaten leaders of the SB League, Massagno, on Saturday at Le Rocher (78-76).
Jérémy Jaunin’s winning shot.
Swiss Basketball
This time, the BBC Nyon did not miss its appointment with the top of the bill. Rolled by one of the unbeaten leaders of the SB League, Friborg Olympic, two weeks ago, the formation of the Coast brought down on Saturday the other team which had not yet lost this season: Massagno, which presented itself to the Rocher without the Mladjan brothers, both injured.
To challenge the armada of coach Robbi Gubitosa, Nyon coach Stefan Ivanovic had carefully prepared his battle plan and decided to send a second man on James or Nikolic as soon as one of the two players touched the ball at the low post. . The goal? Limit their number of points and easy passes to Ticino shooters.
Stefan Ivanovic chose his poison and it worked pretty well in the first half (41-36). After having passed a soap to his flock during a time dead after five minutes of play, he saw his captain Van Rooij and his five 100% Swiss take control after the final exclusion of Nikolic, guilty of two unsportsmanlike fouls.
Williams ignites the end of the match
It is perhaps the only one «reproach» that we could do to the locals and their coach: how James, the only interior on the floor on the Massagno side, could he play the last 25 minutes of the meeting with his faults without being targeted? D’aoutant plus that the American was one of the main players in the Ticino recovery, before the last quarter (58-52).
But Nyon, this season, is above all an impressive collective. Although absent because of a shoulder injury for ten days, Beamon found a way to score 17 points in 23 minutes. We must also write that Hayman and Warden were excellent off the bench. And what about Van Rooij, unplayable in the practice of shooting at mid-distance, and author of seize points!
Everyone thought the meeting folded for the Nyonnais, them who still led 74-64 with three minutes remaining before the final siren. But at the end of the time-out of his coach Gubitosa, Williams caught fire and scored nine points in a row before seeing teammate Taylor equalize at 76-76 thanks to an award-winning shot from behind the arc…
There was then a possession and a handful of seconds to play. And it is Jaunin, trickster towards the basket, who came to crucify Massagno with the buzzer and blew up the room!
It is not only in the Rock where the Swiss Basketball League offered close matches this Saturday. With Massagno’s defeat at Nyon, Friborg Olympic is now the only team still undefeated this season. Winners in the difficulty of Starwings Basel (69-66), the players of Petar Aleksic store a seventh victory in as many matches and take the lead.
For their part, the Geneva Lions narrowly won in Lugano (67-63) and found themselves 4th, with 4 successes for 3 losses.
Finally, Union Neuchâtel brilliantly foiled Swiss Central (84-65). Neuchâtelois remontent en 6e position (3 wins, 4 losses).
