Promoted to N3 and crowned Prenational champion on the Sluc floor, ASP Basket Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes will resume its championship this Saturday (8 p.m.) at the same place. Olivier Basic and his team are indeed expected in Gentilly to assess their potential at this level. A priori, the progress is not dizzying for this very experienced workforce, which relies on a core of veterans on the upper floors.
Candidates to maintain their return to the French championship, the Quercussiens are moving towards this meeting in Nancy with some certainties. Because they have a balanced squad with triggers on the periphery and an interior strike force that is difficult to contest. The reinforcement this summer of former Jovicourtois Jonathan Friedrich also adds professional skill to a team that has shaped its shared experience for two seasons. The difference, and it is significant, is that we will have to relearn how to suffer or lose matches. This has hardly happened in Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes in two years, but the adversity will increase in intensity this time. Hence the interest of this test. This group will soon have the first elements to situate itself.
Longwy-Réhon expected at Arsenal
Some sixty kilometers from Gentilly, however, a great Nationale 3 classic will be played out. BC Longwy-Réhon will arrive at the Metz Arsenal (8 p.m.) for an uncertain derby between two young teams who have the same internal deficit. They compensate in other ways. The BCLR can, for example, rely on an external address which will further gain in consistency with the arrival of shooter Jean-Baptiste Cagneaux. The Metz BC shows itself capable of putting up an aggressive defense, served by the tonic calves of a battalion in training.
This season will also be the last dance of the emblematic Mamédy Diawara who intends to hang up his sneakers on a new “maintenance”. “We escaped very early last year and we will have the same objective this year,” warns a boy who now hangs out with teammates he once coached. “I want to support them and be a relay for the coaches, Philippe (Ory) and Damien (Jean-Joseph),” he concludes. “Against Longwy, we will have to be able to put a lot of defensive pressure and intensity on both sides of the pitch. » The veteran assures him: the Messins “are ready”.
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