The Dijonnese rediscover the taste of victory in the championship by managing to dominate a Parisian team that will not have given up on anything for 40 minutes. Of note on the Burgundian side is the XXL performance by Gavin Ware. The pivot ends the match with a very well filled stats sheet (27 pts 3 reb and 3 passes with a 13/16).
The beginning of the match is very rhythmic. The Parisians show an aggressive face on the floor managing to bring the ball to life thanks to well-oiled collective movements that take the Dijon defense from behind. Young French Inner Kamagate (11pts 6reb 2pas) feasts and chains baskets in painting. On the Burgundian side the score is secured by a Gavin Ware (27pts 3reb 3pas) effective at half distance and close to the circle. The visitors gradually ramped up the pressure during this quarter and took control of the game on a long-range field goal by Chase Simon. The JDA attack is on fire at the end of the quarter, managing to pass almost 30 points to the opponents thanks in particular to the 11 units of the unsustainable Markis McDuffie (25pts 6reb 1pas) (26-29).
The players of the city of the Dukes huddle in defense and begin to leave the Parisian attack without a solution. On the other side of the platform, the guests play their basketball and widen a gap of more than 10 points on a 3-point basket by Gregor Hrovat (30-43 16’00). Residents of Ile-de-France try to resist relying on the flashes of their winger Aamir Simms (17pts 4reb 4pas) and the distance speech of the gunslinger Gauthier Denis. However, the Dijonnais maintained their momentum and managed to widen the gap again thanks to the construction carried out by their kingpin Ware in the opponent’s racket to end this first half with 16 points. The visitors thus allow themselves a 9-length mattress at the end of the first act (45-54).
Upon returning from the locker room, the two teams surrendered one by one but the Dijonnesi still placed a push. Gavin Ware continues to destroy the Parisian racket with 25 points scored while still having more than 15 minutes to go. The American pivot is perfectly integrated by his winger Markis McDuffie who will plant a huge dunk on the counterattack. The JDA players thus manage to exceed the threshold of 15 points from a basket behind the arc of Gregor Hrovat (56-71 27’00).
However, the Parisians didn’t give up and managed to get back under the 10-point threshold 8 minutes from the end thanks to the offensive rebound and then the authoritative dunk by Kamagate (68-76). But David Holston conditioned the room with 3 points in the next action. The premises seem borrowed from the pressure of the end of the game as they multiply the losses of balls and the wrong choices. JDA players didn’t need to be questioned and pushed where it hurt with a huge trigger shot from Robin Ducoté off the screen (70-84 34’00). The Burgundians did the hardest part by cutting off any hope for a team from the Ile-de-France region that cannot see and suffer from the talent of the Dijon team.
Nenad Markovic’s men reacted perfectly after their two consecutive defeats. The Dijonnais have shown a disconcerting ease in attack managing to carefully carve out a Parisian team that will have played their luck bravely.
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Fact sheet: Paris Basketball lost 85 to 95 against JDA Dijon (26-29, 19-25, 16-20, 24-21)
Points :
– JDA Dijon: Holston (5) / McDuffie (25) / Alingue (4) / Rousselle (3) / Ducoté (3) / Hrovat (15) / Ware (27) / Simon (13)
– Paris Basketball: Simms (17) / Kamagate (11) / Allman (17) / Begarin (15) / Denis (12) / Gegic (3) / Plummer (2) / Sleva (5) / Moreno (1)
Pass :
– JDA Dijon : Holston (14) / Ware (3) / Hrovat (3)
– Paris Basketball : Gegic (6) / Allman (4) / Simms (4)
It bounces :
– JDA Dijon : McDuffie (6) / Hrovat (8) / Alingue (6)
– Paris Basketball: Begarin (9) / Kamagate (6) / Allman (5)
