Oh ! The good business. After a night forbidden to shooters and fans, Hyères-Toulon beat Chartres this Friday evening at home (71-69 after extra time).
In an incandescent sports center, he took advantage of the combined defeats of Avignon and Caen to regain his leadership seat.
To do this, Jean-Louis Borg’s men had to draw on invaluable resources and come back from hell.
This energy must now serve as a springboard for them. There are four matches left before a possible move up to Pro B, but nothing will be given to them.
Knezevic was hot
The proof on Friday. The HTV has long been muzzled by Chartrains in the lead (29-40, 27th). They had two balls to go +10 in the last quarter. This is punished by two 3 points in quick succession signed by Eugene and Knezevic (51-52, 37th). He has just scored his first basket of the evening. And not the last.
On a free throw, he wins overtime (58-58). The Serbian winger will reveal himself… With two scuds in a row to get HTV out of a new impasse (66-65, 44th). And finally the winning shot three seconds from the end.
There, station 3 did everything alone. With a full-axis drive, he exploited the gap left by Wright and Prost. Which makes him the most skillful Varois of the evening (13 points at 57.1%). The hero of the evening, quite simply.
“I like these hot weather! And fortunately, otherwise that would mean I don’t like basketball”whispered Knezevic afterwards. “My teammates were able to find me, thank you to them!”
The Var assistant coach, Gaëtan Etienne, wondered about the limits of this group. “I don’t know where they are because every time we’re in a hole, we come out of nowhere. We found the values lost in Tours. We were warriors, which made us go look for extra time. Then the match. It is with this state of mind that we can hope to achieve what this group deserves (the rise, Editor’s note). They deserve it a little more than the others…”
2024-03-30 10:20:37
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