Boulazac Basket Dordogne will be able to test its two new recruits on a life-size basis. Leader Nic Moore and pivot Nicolas De Jong will be traveling to Évreux this Tuesday, November 9, on the occasion of the 5th day of PRO B basketball. A much-awaited reinforcement for the team which, in four meetings, has chained four defeats. Coach Nikola Antić is counting on them to bring experience, confidence and serenity to a team that has been sorely lacking since the start of the championship. “Sometimes the speeches between players in the locker room can change things explains the coach. It does not have the same weight as the coach. When players see someone who has more experience, it may click for them. The weight of a goal, the weight of being a major player can block some “.
Nicolas De Jong delighted to find Boulazac
Back from a medical freelance at Estudiantes Madrid, Nicolas de Jong, who played at Boulazac in 2018-2019 when the team was in a Jeep-Elite, knows perfectly well the delicate situation in which Boulazac finds himself but does not not particularly moved. I am 33 years old and I am reaching my last basketball years confides the former Palois. I also want to take pleasure in situations where I think I can take it. I have very good memories of Boulazac. And even if there is a somewhat difficult start for the team, I don’t see why I would worry, there are 30 games left! At one point, straightening the bar isn’t just utopian, it’s doable.
The player, who has experienced knee problems in recent years, hopes like Nic Moore to bring more value. “Bring perhaps a not a mentality, he explains, but in any case a detachment from the situation, that is to say that we arrive as new. For me I arrive and it is as if there were zero to zero. The four games, I haven’t played them. There is a match coming up, I want to win it and I will do everything for it. And I just hope to take the group with me or that we all take the measure of the thing to say to each other. there is a new workforce, we have changed. Now we have to start a dynamic. So me, I come with no a priori, I do not live in the defeats that are ahead or in the preparation.
Ivan February unavailable
On the other hand, Boulazac Basket Dordogne will have to compose in Evreux without one of its centerpieces. Ivan February twisted his ankle in the first action of the match against Antibes last Friday. The player had to undergo medical tests to know the extent of his injury, and his downtime. Another absent in Evreux, the Norwegian winger Chris-Ebou Ndow who suffers from hamstrings.
Evreux / Boulazac Basket Dordogne, a match to be experienced live on France Bleu Périgord this Tuesday, November 9 from 8:00 p.m. The evening, hosted by Francis Lacour begins at 7:30 p.m.