Forty-eight hours after its success in Bourg-en-Bresse (80-74) and three days before a trip to Barcelona in the Euroleague, Asvel did not forget to dominate Blois on Tuesday at the Astroballe (85-77) during an advanced match of the 17th day, scheduled during the holidays and in collision with the European calendar.
Gianmarco Pozzecco’s players achieved a fourth success in a row in the Championship, and consolidated their third place behind Monaco and Paris, who will face each other on Sunday in the principality (14th day).
Still deprived of Nando De Colo, but also of Charles Kahudi (paternity), Asvel relied on its executives to put the ADA, in the middle of a negative series (five losses in a row) and which slipped to 15th place in the ranking, under pressure from the first half.
The crazy basket by Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot
The attack led by the duo Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (20 points, 9 assists)-Joffrey Lauvergne (16 points) was at full speed with fifteen assists at the break and 62% shooting success.
Just before the break, Luwawu-Cabarrot scored a crazy basket, triggered from twelve meters and at the 24-second buzzer, after picking up a ball that was flying into touch.
Blois was quickly overwhelmed in defense and even conceded twenty-four points behind (63-39) after half-time. Asvel nevertheless slowed down at the end of the third quarter and at the start of the fourth.
Blois, without its playmaker Milan Barbitch, not very energetic (1 out of 6 on shots in 13 minutes), took the opportunity to come back seven lengths (68-61) under the leadership of Tobin Carberry (20 points), Josh Hawley (11 points, 14 rebounds) and young Maxime Sconard (11 points in 17 minutes), who broke his points record in the elite.
Too late, however, to worry the Villeurbanne residents who responded with Paris Lee, among others, to ward off any bad surprises in the money-time.
2023-11-28 19:47:23
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