Blois – SLUC Nancy
86 – 107
It’s an absolute truth, all series end someday. Both good and bad. But if SLUC Nancy suspected that it would end up winning one day against this team from ADA Blois, who had dominated him six times out of six , how many would have believed that this moment would arrive this Friday in the Blésoise room of the Jeu de Paume? Not many people, no doubt, as the leader of Pro B has mastered his subject since the start of the season, and has shown it. three weeks ago in Gentilly (76-87).
But this Friday, in the silence of a Blésoise room which discovered the sadness of the camera, the people of Nancy offered themselves the skin of their pet peeve at the end of an offensive almost unreal festival. Because to put 107 points in Blois, nobody had managed to do it since the club of Loir-et-Cher evolves in Pro B. But Nancy was able to rely on a devilish address and which this time, remained constant over Match.
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Put into orbit by Ron Lewis (8 points in the first five minutes), François Peronnet’s men had returned … nine of their thirteen first three-point shoots to lead the proceedings and count up to eleven points in advance in the first period (13-24, 9th, 37-48, 18th). Nancy had thus joined the break in the lead (47-53).
But this was already the case three weeks ago and we know how it ended. And since the address, it goes, it comes, we told ourselves that nothing, absolutely nothing had been done.
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The best match of the Vautier-Vent tandem
An impression that took a little more consistency when the Blésois returned to -1 after returning from the locker room (60-61, 24th). But the SLUC Nancy did not weaken in terms of address and came out the 3-point machine with, in the role of the fireworks, Antony Labanca and Yannick Franke this time.
And if the SLUC left too many offensive rebounds to the Blésois (14 this Friday), the pivots Bastien Vautier and Vincent Vent played their roles of fixing points perfectly.
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The tandem will achieve their best game with 25 points at 9/12 for both men, as if Charles Nkaloulou’s return from injury , absent since the end of September, relieved them in the racket.
If Blois was also firing on all cylinders, like the pivot Alexis Tanghe, author of a… 4/4 at 3 points, Nancy set the bar even higher on the offensive plan by finding solutions in shambles. The SLUC will end up with seven players at twelve points or more! After having regained a gap at the start of the last act (68-79), SLUC Nancy planted new banderillas at 3 points in the last quarter to fly away and win. Nancy is in the semifinals of the Leaders Cup. It will be Tuesday at Fos, a little earlier winner of Souffelweyersheim. A match that will quickly happen. But before that, it is not forbidden to savor this first …
The Cougar: Tyrant De Lattibeaudière.
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