Bangaly Fofana in, Andreja Stevanovic out

On a terrible series since the return of the international break with two defeats on the edge against two competitors for maintenance (80-82 at Gries-Souffel and 79-80 against Rouen), ALM Évreux now finds itself in the red lantern of Pro B, weaned from victory since November 5. Really not the standing of a historic club in the anteroom, among the few to have spent the 24 years of existence of the LNB in ​​the bosom of the league.

In fact, Neno Asceric has decided to make some initial adjustments. Thus, according to Paris-Normandie, Bungalow Fofana (2.13 m, 32 years old) is about to join the ranks of the Euroise team. Former benchmark of Pro A in his great years in Strasbourg, the 2009 French champion comes out of a half-season recovery at JL Bourg (1.7 points at 60% and 1.6 rebounds in 7 minutes on average over 12 games), after 410 days without competition and three knee operations that forced him to reshape his game, much more on the ground than in his heyday. History is repeating itself for him since earlier this year, he had already signed in Ain to compensate for the first rupture of the cruciate ligaments of Thibault Daval-Braquet, hired by the ALM and victim of a relapse in September. Glimpsed 342 times in the top flight and 87 times in the European Cup, Fofana has never known Pro B. And what better than a trip to the leader Saint-Chamond to discover the charms of the anteroom next Friday ?

The specifics of the Pro B, precisely, Andreja Stevanovic struggled to tame them. Arrived crowned with an interesting CV, sublimated by a stint at Partizan Belgrade in 2017, the top scorer of the Serbian championship (23.3 points at 47% with Kragujevac) failed in Normandy, only turning at 7.1 37.5% units. His last three outings? 2 points at 1/2 at Gries, 2 points at 1/5 in the Leaders Cup at Quimper and 1 point at 0/3 against Rouen. Therefore, the former Aleksinac shooter will be thanked by the ALM according to our information. And if he is the only one leaving for the moment, others would do well to quickly raise their level of play: we are thinking in particular of the Lithuanian interior Julius Kazakauskas (5.7 points at 36%, 6.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists), limited to 14 and 8 minutes of play in his last two games when he was averaging 26 minutes previously.

Stevanovic has played 11 games with Évreux
(photo : Antoine Bodelet)