“Yeah I don’t hide from you that before the match, there was a little fatigue. And yet, Hugo Robineau and his teammates once again went to the end of their efforts to take up the maximum in advance on Évreux, Saturday May 3.
The Boulazac Basket Dordogne put 30 at the Normans (88-58), in this disheveled race in first place and at the general point with Blois. The two clubs are Coleaders. And if the BBD has signed a + 30, the Blésois stand out with a + 23 against Chartres (99-76). In total + 293 and + 337 of two-matches from the end.
” + 13, + 21 and + 30″, Alexandre Ménard would have signed “both feet and both hands” before the week that his group has just experienced. He dominated Roanne (91-78), a very physical team, then Pau/Lacq/Orthez (84-63), which went up like a bomb in the classification, before finishing with the red lantern.
And it was therefore not easy in the face of the latter, with “heavy legs” and “tired arms”, explains Ménard. Évreux “multiplied the defenses, we had a latency time to find the adaptation”.
Boulazac sometimes seemed to browse his basketball, “hesitated to take shots”. The coach pleads the “too much altruism. We have missed too many situations [NDLR : de tir] that we did not have afterwards. We don’t know if the second shot will be better. »»
Louis Cassier affected
The staff referred to it in the locker room and the second Périgourdin breath appeared, despite the rapid faults of Angelo Warner, the left calf touched by Louis Cassier or Cyrille Eliezer-Vanerot still sick. “All tried to fight with what they had in the tank. You have to realize what it is, three consecutive matches. In terms of concentration, they remained solid. »»
-To mark as much as possible, and take the least, the BBD cannot relax. Even in front of the last, which impacts with the “beautiful babies” that are Okafor or Ouedraogo.
The latter nevertheless felt the perigrated determination when Robineau arose to counter him while he was going to equalize, in the 27th (45-43). “This against, it also shows that the team fights,” says the number 8 Boulazacois. We push until the last moments where teams can rest. We tried to scratch points until the end, that’s it too tiring. »»
It was however at the end that Boulazac made the difference. Its bench depth played. The mind too. “We had to be tired in the fourth quarter, this is where the difference is done,” says Ménard. He sees it as the sign “of a team that performs, lives well together and still wants to push with the living forces of the moment”.
So, if the BBD does not have the right to make mistakes, either. Because despite the fatigue, Robineau and his coach already mentioned Orléans, the next destination, Saturday May 10, while the Boulazacois benefit from two days of rest. With a taste of revenge of the final of Cup leaders. And above all the desire to go to the end.
The day in short
The blow of soft. Second worst defense of the division, Aix-Maurienne has collected more than 100 points for the second time in a row, Friday May 2. Saint-Chamond won 88-107 and puts pressure on Savoyards who are no longer assured of playing the play-in. From Aix to Denain, there are five for three places and stand in two victories.
La tuile. Despite two large award-winning baskets at the end of the match of Mathieu Wojciechowski and Lucas Bourhis, Fos-sur-Mer gave in his room on a final launch of Kevin Harley (77-78), Saturday May 3. This allows Poitiers to believe the play-offs while the Provencals are now dependent on the others to save their place.
