The Limoges CSP faces this Saturday evening in Beaublanc a team from Dijon which has little to do with that of previous years. All its backbone has left for Bourg-en-Bresse in the off-season. The trainer Laurent Legname with in his suitcases the leader Axel Julien and the pivot Alexandre Chassang. But a man remained. And not just any. American point guard and 2019 Championship MVP David Holston. A permanent threat that the Limougeauds will try to limit.
It’s a great challenge for the leaders – Ludovic Beyhurst
It will even be the great challenge of the CSP. Limit the impact of this leader of only 1 meter 73 but whose size is inversely proportional to the damage it can do in the French championship. Because from the top of his 35 years, he still makes the opposing defenses suffer as much. “It’s always complicated. We see that he is still among the best scorers, passers and interceptors. We know him but it is not that easy. It’s a great challenge for the leaders. The others will have to help us“anticipates Limoges point guard Ludovic Beyhurst.
Do not let him pass and score at the same time
But for the Limoges coach, impossible to stop it completely. We will have to make choices. “He is the total leader of the team. He is not the only one but he has a lot of balls in his hands. Many teams tried to stop it. But nobody can do it. We know we have to put a big guy on him. And we have to make sure that he is not capable of being both a scorer and a passer. Only one of the two. If he does both, we lose the match“warns Massimo Cancellieri.
We don’t have the killer instinct. It’s the only thing we miss – Massimo Cancellieri
A coach who faced the former Limoges player (1996-1999) now Dijon coach Nenad Markovic, would like to see his team raise the tempo. Especially in the face of a formation engaged in Eurocup, which multiplies the matches, and could be impacted physically over the course of the meeting. “I hope we will be able to do it. We have to run more. Sometimes our basketball is too slow. And we must seize the opportunity of the 1st advantage. We play a system for one player but if we have an advantage, we must kill. We don’t have the killer instinct. It’s the only thing we miss“said a Massimo Cancellieri well aware of the accounting importance of this match of the 7th day.