On the possibility of qualifying for the final.
“It means that you have to win from five points there. We have to mark the first two baskets and like that we start from scratch. It is the same story as the last time except that this time, I found that we mastered things until half-time. We had kept them at 20 points (Editor’s note: 34-20 at halftime). We were very well defended, we were really good. Return this third quarter to have 12 (points), go to 15 or 16 and it is the opposite. Individualities put us. Behind, we were dominated at the lead, and when we had to put one or two Sara hobbled baskets that we had kept the scorer machine out. Even inside we got a little impact with things that we shouldn’t have let it go. A second half where we were completely next to the plate. This is what makes me say that there is disappointment, it’s really a shame, and at the same time I want to say that since it is played in two rounds, it’s pretty good what we did. Our level of performance is far from what we have achieved lately. Just put the brains back on the place, to get the strength of character that we missed. Not the whole team, but some. There is a time when they do not realize that they are in the semi-finals and that it takes something other than playing the ball. You have to put this back to the place to go to Charleville in an obviously very complicated context. We are going to play in a full room with fans who are happy to have won the first title (Editor’s note: the French Cup) and who say they are going to be doubled this year. We will have to understand it well, manage it well and then after that there is only basketball. So -4, disappointment and at the same time (he blows), we may escape worse given what we have done or not. It still leaves us all the hopes, everything is allowed next Sunday up there. “
On the situation of the TGB in the landscape of French women’s basketball:
“We lived complicated years but for two years with our new governance and the management of Jeannie Cointre, we have just made four semi-finals. Last year, we went very far. This year, it is Charleville who takes us from a point there (Editor’s note: in the semi-final of the French Cup). And we are still there, four points. We eliminated Bourges. 4th of the regular season as we ended up 8th. Fanfaron is factual.
