Monaco brought down Cholet (75-69) for the first time this season on Sunday and continues its flawless lead in the French Basketball Championship, closely followed by Bourg-en-Bresse and Paris Basketball, winner of Boulogne-Levallois ( 93-86) during the 6th day.
In the Mauges, the Roca Team only took definitive control with 94 seconds to go. Two days after its defeat in Valencia (70-65) at the opening of the Euroleague season, ASM resumed its march forward with its second team and in particular its recruit Petr Cornelie, very valuable on the CB floor where the The French international was close to a double double (18 points, 8 rebounds).
Villeurbanne also bounced back, after three losses in a row, by crushing Nancy (89-64) on Sunday in the Rhône. His rookie arrival from the NBA, fullback Frank Jackson, shone (20 pts) like his pivot Youssoupha Fall, close to the double double (11 pts, 8 rebounds). This fourth success in Betclic Elite gives Asvel some breathing space, after turbulent days recently. The defeat against promoted Saint-Quentin (91-71) on Tuesday was more difficult to explain than those against Monaco (87-79) and in the boiling Stark Arena of Red Star Belgrade (94-73) on Thursday in the Euroleague.
In the wake of the Monegasque Rock remains Paris Basketball. Electrified by a sparkling Nadir Hifi (22 points in just 14 minutes), the ambitious Parisian club inflicted a sixth setback on Victor Wembanyama’s former team, Boulogne-Levallois.
