The eye of our special correspondent
Suffocated by much more biting Northerners at the start of the match, Bourges Basket dragged their catastrophic start like a ball. Trailing 18-0 after six minutes, Tango took a long time to get into their first knockout game of the season. Without aggressiveness in the racket, clumsy to shoot, Élodie Godin and her teammates therefore spent almost half time watching Villeneuve-d’Ascq walk around (41-24, 20th). It was only after a three-pointer from Janelle Salaun, in the middle of the third quarter, that the alarm clock ignited, notably under the impetus of Yvonne Anderson (19 points in the second half). Little by little, Bourges reduced the gap (56-50, 30th) to finally stay alive at the dawn of the last ten minutes. But in a boiling Palacium, it was out of the question for Rachid Meziane’s players to drop the case. The Tangos have never managed to come back to a possession of their opponent and it is finally the most logical in the world that Villeneuve-d’Ascq validates his ticket for the semi-final (83-74). A stage of the competition that the TBB will not see for the first time since 2013.
In Villeneuve-d’Ascq,
Antonin Bisson
The player
Kennedy Burke
Third best rating in the Women’s League since the start of the season (18.7), the American post 2 hurt the Berruyères on Thursday evening. She finishes, by far, with the best evaluation of the meeting (28) with on her line of stats 18 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, 4 fouls caused.
The number
6’38
Bourges Basket only scored their first points in the game after 6’38 of play in the first quarter, on a 3-pointer from Ornella Bankolé. The Northerners then already had 18 points on their counter….
The other quarters
Illkirch-Graffenstaden (LF2) – Monaco (LF2) : 56-51.
Basket Landes – Angers : 84-65.
Tarbes – Lyon Asvel women: 71-82.
The sheet
ESB Villeneuve-d’Ascq – Tango Bourges Basket: 83-74.
Quarts-temps: 26-11, 15-13 (mi-temps: 41-24), 15-26, 27-24.
Referees: Messrs. Vansteene and Milliot, Mrs. Secci.
VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ. Smalls 20 (24:25), Heriaud 2 (cap., 27:52), Djekoundade 2 (10:11), Hirsch (6:09), Diaby 15 (26:27), Ben Abdelkader 12 (28:12) , Burke 18 (33’51), Diallo (12’34), Hall 14 (30’19). Coach: Rachid Meziane, assisted by Antonio De Barros Araujo.
BOURGES.Anderson 19 (28’01), Steinberga 8 (28’25), Bankolé 12 (27’35), Michel 5 (25’04), Astier 6 (11’17), Guapo 3 (9’30), Godin 2 (cap., 24’52), Duchet 13 (23’17), Alexander 6 (21’06). Trainer: Olivier Lafargue, assisted by Jérôme Authier and Virgile Abel.
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