The CAB basketball players ended the year in the worst possible way, a 53-46 defeat in a late match in Tarbes, Saturday afternoon, which greatly mortgaged any hint of play-offs at the end of the season.
We had understood this for a long time. There is CAB Basket with Maimouna Ba, almost invincible in NF2 with five wins in five games and the other. A snatch victory against a team from Mont-de-Marsan, dead last, and five defeats either wide or unworthy of the rank that the Brivist club hoped for at the start of the season.
Saturday, in Tarbes, last in the pool, it is the worst score since the start of the season which Mathieu Blondet attended, helpless. A poor match in all areas and a defeat of 7 points while paradoxically his daughters were still in the game 30 seconds from the end (45-46).
“We completely miss the end of the match but above all we simply miss the match. We lose against nothingness, which is to say at what level we have evolved, ”plague the Corrézien coach.
6 wins for 5 losses
“The girls thought they were on vacation before taking the bus. So we played but we were catastrophic. No address, no aggressiveness. A real non-match. It’s really not easy to put words on it, ”he adds, pointing out the efforts of the returning Domenica Lombardy who tried a lot during the meeting but was too short physically to bring a real plus at this level. . It takes time for him to really come back to his level.
The observation is clear at the same time as it is filled with bitterness: “Without Maimouna Ba, we can only defend and run. However, against Tarbes, we really evolved to seven, everyone had a significant playing time. We lose against a team that does not have the level objectively, we have the situations yet to score but we did not get anything ”.
With a record halfway through the championship of 6 wins for 5 losses, the objectives change radically. The play-offs are to be forgotten, you have to finish as high as possible without having to look behind and especially keep the group mobilized.
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