Lhe promise of a thrilling derby has been kept. And with the victory at the end (72-67), the TGB can only savor its hard-won success after extra time. Finally, the Tarbaises managed to win a match against a better ranked team. All in an atmosphere of madness. Or how the supporters of Basket Landes managed to set fire to a room that was too often sluggish, and dragged the entire Tarbes public with them for this sweet collective intoxication.
Lhe promise of a thrilling derby has been kept. And with the victory at the end (72-67), the TGB can only savor its hard-won success after extra time. Finally, the Tarbaises managed to win a match against a better ranked team. All in an atmosphere of madness. Or how the supporters of Basket Landes managed to set fire to a room that was too often sluggish, and dragged the entire Tarbes public with them for this sweet collective intoxication.
” What a party ! The Quai, it should be like that at all games, smiles François Gomez, the coach of the violets. For Basket Landes, it’s normal because he has this kind of atmosphere at each meeting but we know less. It was magical. “Magic, also and above all, because the coin this time fell on the right side for the Bigourdanes. And to think that Kendra Chery and Marie-Eve Paget had the match points to put out the Quai a few seconds from the end of the 40 minutes…
Fatal lack of address
But more than on these two attempts, it is indeed on the whole of the part that Basket Landes failed, weighed down by a lack of address, while Céline Dumerc and her partners took 19 shots more than their hosts. The Landaises had however done the job well in the first period. Especially in a very choppy second quarter resembling a free throwing contest, where the TGB was perfectly muzzled by scoring only 8 points. What put the blue and white in a good position before negotiating the second half (29-38, 20th). “Yes, but we know that the TGB has this habit of staying in the race until the end, and it’s not with +9 that you can breathe…”, tempers Julie Barennes, the Landes coach.
Regan Magarity’s partners without a solution at Isabelle Yacoubou’s TGB, again and again at the rendezvous with 20 points and 16 rebounds.
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Failing to put a fluid collective game in place, the TGB relied on its strengths. This Sunday, they were named Carla Leite (26 points, top scorer of the game) and Isabelle Yacoubou (20 points, 16 rebounds), each in their own register. The duo carried their team, which was able to count on a few punctual relays from Marie-Paule Foppossi and Clémentine Samson in the key moments of the end of the meeting.
The TGB at full speed
“The aggressiveness of Basket Landes put us upside down from the start, recognizes François Gomez. We saw individuals, but not a real collective. I asked, which I rarely do, to take turns playing certain players. Let’s say there were all the ingredients for a derby, yes, but for a good basketball game, no. » When the victory is at the rendezvous, the way takes second place.
“We know that the TGB has this habit of staying in the race until the end, and it’s not with +9 that you can breathe…”
Despite fewer rotations, the TGB finished much stronger to win the bet, pulled by its inner captain, and still with an absolutely untenable Carla Leite. Opposite, Kristen Mann seemed far too lonely to keep up the pace (72-67). This victory, in a still worrying economic context, opens up great prospects for the Tarbaises, who have perhaps achieved much more than success in the race for the play-offs: they are tied on points with the Landaises ( 24) for 6th place, five days before the end of the regular season. With this second defeat in a row against a direct competitor, the blue and white are back in their doubts. They will necessarily have to react at the reigning French champion, Bourges, Sunday March 26. Under penalty of jeopardizing their goal of top 8.
The match sheet
Tarbes – Basket Landes : 72-67 (a. p.)
Location: Tarbes (Sports Palace). Referees: Mrs. Voyeau, MM. Malegue and Maestre. Quarter: 21-20, 8-18, 20-10, 9-10. Overtime: 14-9. Half time: 29-38.
Tarbes 24/60 shots made including 4/15 from 3 points, 20/25 free throws, 44 rebounds, 14 assists, 12 stray bullets, 3 interceptions, 1 against, 17 fouls.
Scorers: Leite (26), Foppossi (8), Yacoubou (20), Pardon (5), Samson (7), Ewodo (2), Monasse (-), Bobst (-), Popescu (-), Tadic ( 4), Plump (-).
Basket Landes 25/79 shots made including 3/23 three-pointers, 14/18 free throws, 51 rebounds, 22 assists, 8 stray bullets, 6 interceptions, 2 blocks, 23 fouls.
The markers: Magarity (13), Fauthoux (17), Turcinovic (-), Dumerc (8), Djaldi-Tabdi (-), Roumy (4), Gil (6), Mann (11), Paget (3), Cherry (5).
