Good start for AS Douanes in the playoffs at Kigali Arena despite the cold sweats at the end of the match. While she met Rivers Hoopers for the 3rd time during this month, the Gabelous won (2-1) with a score of 63-57.
The Gabelous had a good start to the match by focusing on aggressiveness in the game, particularly defense. This time, it was not AS Douanes in the dock for the ball losses. Clumsy, Rivers Hoopers went for minutes without scoring. The coach calls a timeout to try to stop the bleeding 4 minutes from the end (11-2). With their ideas in place, Perry’s winning shot in the next minute will do them a lot of good. Rivers Hoopers continues. But will not be able to stop Harouna and his teammates. Mike Fofana drives home the point in the last second of the first quarter with a winning shot (22-9).
The second round will be less easy to manage for Pabi Gueye’s men. The Nigerian team will be more difficult to hold on to. If at the start of this second quarter, the Gabelous nibbled points with the mistakes of the Nigerians beaten under the hoop. We still had to do more to keep a good gap (37-23).
Returning from the locker room, the Senegalese club keeps the same pace. AS Douanes starts with a 7-0. We will have to wait 5 minutes played to see Rivers Hoopers’ first successful basket. Moreover, they only managed 5 during the entire quarter (50-28). John Wikins and his teammates will not give up despite the big gap. They will make a very good start to the last quarter to bring the score back (8-5) after 4 minutes played. The address found, Rivers Hoopers pushes back to 4 points apart. Enough to put the BK Arena in turmoil but the carrots were already cooked by the Gabelous.
AS Douanes thus wins its classification match and will play the quarter-final on Monday against Petro Luanda. An opponent that the Gabelous eliminated in the semi-final during the previous edition.
As a reminder, Monastir snatched victory in the first hour. Petro de Luanda lost (67-70). A final shot at the buzzer from Tunisian Firas Lahyani allowed US Monastir to secure the victory.
wiwsport.com
2024-05-25 17:44:00
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