This Saturday evening there was no match at the Cauldron! A Paris Basketball in steamroller mode defeated Le Portel (57-120) during the 17th day of Betclic ELITE.
Unbalanced on paper, this clash of extremes turned sour for the bottom of the championship. From the first to the last second, Paris controlled fate in a meeting where a shower of records fell.
10-0. The game starts with a 10-0 in favor of our Parisians! A river run symbolizing a 1QT dominated from head to toe by Paris Basketball. From afar, the attempts follow one another. And when the latter do not come in, our big men continue to offer second chances to our serial shooters (6 offensive rebounds to 0 in the 1QT). And otherwise, Paris pushes the Stellistes to make mistakes before finishing near the circle on well-aimed drives. Extremely rare fact: Le Portel scored his first point in the 2QT after 8 minutes 37 – a 27-0 inflicted by the teammates of a Seba-Hifi duo with 24 units in the 1st period.
From +15 at the start of 2QT (17-35), Paris Basketball begins the 2nd period with… 44 points in advance (21-65)! The worst part of all this is that our team is absolutely not giving up. Still following this up-tempo recipe, our Parisians pass the symbolic bar of 50 points difference (23-75). The difference this time is that our players go to the free throw line more (21 LF attempted in the 2nd period). Barely had the 4QT started, our players passed 100 points on yet another and-one from Léopold Cavalière (11 points and 14 rebounds). With 9 players at 10 points or more, our serious team until the final whistle concluded this match with a 57-120.
Betclic ÉLITE all-time record point difference (+63), all-time record rebounds (62), best mark of the season (120), 2 players in double-doubles (Allan Dokossi and Léopold Cavalière)… Paris Basketball quite simply gave us a recital against Stellistes below in all areas of the game.
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