Two victories for history. Paris Basketball won the Eurocup, the second European competition, even before the third decisive support match, after its victory in Bourg-en-Bresse on Friday (89-81), a title which also offers it a ticket for the next Euroleague.
It is precisely under the eyes of the two highest leaders of the most prestigious continental competition, the former Serbian legend Dejan Bodiroga (president) and the Lithuanian Paulius Motiejunas (CEO), that the Parisians let their joy at joining the great world and to bring a second trophy, two months after the first (the Leaders Cup), to their young and ambitious club. All this, at the end of only their second European campaign, and without having yet played in the play-offs of the French championship.
🏆 The emotion of Nadir Hifi, TJ Shorts and the Parisians at the final buzzer: Paris Basketball wins the EuroCup!
22-1 over the season, best historical record and first team in history with 22 victories in a single campaign! pic.twitter.com/XqJ2E9lDJD— Alexandre Lacoste (@Alex__Lacoste) April 12, 2024
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Created from scratch in 2018, transfigured last summer with the arrival of a coach (Finnish Tuomas Iisalo), two assistants and six players from Bonn, with whom they had just won the Champions League, Paris Basketball joins Monaco, winner of this C2 in 2021, in the list of winners, now hoping to imitate the Roca Team which made its mark in the Euroleague.
His final victory – under the eyes of François Hollande – marks a perfect continental season, where he only fell once (for 22 successes), in the pools, and crushed the play-offs, beating Badalone (1-0) and the London Lions (2-0), before Bressans.
Parisians in whirlwind mode
Even if they resisted much better than during the first match Tuesday in Paris (77-64 defeat), and despite the unfailing and noisy support of their Ekinox audience (3,500 seats), Frédéric Fauthoux’s players ended up bowing to an irresistible team since the end of January (streak of 19 victories in progress).
A formation which imposes pressure and a frantic pace on both sides of the field, the result of extremely intense training and numerous rotations, thanks to the depth of the bench, which squeeze out the opponent.
“It’s a meteoric trajectory for this club, I don’t know if there is an equivalent in the history of European basketball,” Iisaelo hallucinated after the meeting, before seeing his players burst into the training room. press to spray it. Now that the Parisian rocket has been launched, it is up to this group to ensure that this is not just a one shot but the birth of a team and the first page of a long story.
2024-04-13 08:34:42
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