Bourges – Basket Landes is a classic this season! Even before this meeting The 2 teams had already faced each other 5 times: 2 times in the league, 2 times in the Eurocoupe and 1 time in the Coupe de France!
Urge of defense
If the balance sheet seems positive for Bourges, with 3 wins for 2 defeats, the tangos have learned to be wary landaises who know how to be present at major events. Basket Landes had notably won one of the two matches of the quarter-finals of the Eurocoupe (but had lost in point-average) and above all won the Coupe de France a few weeks ago at the end of a legendary match a double extension against the tangos of Bourges, finally defeats 91-88.
The berruyères therefore arrived last night with a desire for revenge on the floor and a plan: to stifle their opponents defensively and particularly the outside shooters including the former tango Céline Dumerc.
Well-negotiated first round
Finally Contract completed for Bourges in this first round of the semi-finals of the Women’s League play-offs . At the end of a tough match at home, at the Prado, the tangos made the Landaises sink thanks to an iron defense. Finally Bourges easily wins 77 to 53.
Captain Elodie Godin was proud of her teammates who knew how to perfectly apply the defensive instructions: “_We shouldn’t let them put their basketball down. And I think we did it the right way tonight. Now we have to “We’re recovering because we’re playing again in three days and physically, we still let go of the energy tonight. The key to this match was the defense and we were remarkably aggressive. It’s going to be hard to go there because it’s going to be full. They’re at home and we know they’re going to do another performance. But there, the defense we were able to do tonight. It’s exemplary.”
Berruyeres in sight
Copies like many berruyères this evening. Around Elodie Godin still very complete (4 pts, 5 rbs, 6 pd, 2 int, 1ct), Laetita Guapo (15 pts, 4 rbds), Isabelle Yacoubou (11 pts, 4 rbs), Iliana Rupert (11pts, 8 rbs) or even the best scorer of the game, the Swedish Elin Eldebrink (17 pts) all granted to deliver a very beautiful score.
It now remains to confirm this result and it will not be easy in the lair of the formidable Landes on Friday at 8:45 p.m..