If Harmony Turner, with 32 points on the clock, had burst the screen that evening, the LBB victory against Charnay, four days before Christmas, had been somewhat spoiled by the exit due to injury, at the very end of the match, of Elizabeth Balogun. Essential at position 3 since her arrival at Landerneau, and capable of providing proud services in the interior sector, the Nigerian is neither more nor less than the 2nd best scorer in Wani Muganguzi’s squad (with 14.7 points, behind Turner’s 15.9) and the 2nd best rebounder (with 6.6 shots/match, tied with Turner, again, behind the no less valuable Masseny Kaba who, she swallows an average of 7.1 balls per match).
Now complete, the LBB can be ambitious
Convalescing since December 21, for a knee injury followed by a muscular problem, the ex-Charnay player was seen last week in training stringing the baskets like others do with beads, which foreshadowed an imminent return to business. If she was once hoped for the match against Bourges, it is ultimately in Angers, penultimate team in the standings, that she will return to the courts. “We are obviously happy to have her back, she is a player who showed what she was capable of doing in the first part of the season,” explains the LBB coach, who however prefers to highlight “the team, not the individual. But we’re happy to have everyone,” continues the man who also picked up Camryn Taylor last week.
There is no shortage of good news from the LBB side this season (10 victories already on the clock), it has escaped no one’s notice that without Balogun he had nonetheless managed to win some good fights, against Villeneuve d’Asq, Asvel and Chartres in particular. “It proves that we have succeeded in building a team, and that we are capable of compensating for absences,” said Muganguzi. This allows us to be ambitious when everyone returns to their best level.” Looking forward to the sequel.
