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Back on the qualification in the final of intractable Tarbaises in Charleville-Mézières and inflated to block before welcoming Basket Landes.
After having released Bourges, first of the regular and big favorite season of the quarter-final event (74-76 at the Adour quay and 79-82 at Prado) and the Carolos flames, the winner of the last edition of the French Cup, in the semi-final (56-60 on the outward journey and 45-73 on the return), Tarbes Gespe Bigorre will play his second final Having obtained the title in 2010. And today, the Tarbaises du Cru 2024-2025 can clearly target victory against Basket Landes, the title holder.
In any case after the without appeal score recorded in the Ardennes (18 margin points), they no longer doubt anything. Reactions after a match in which the TGB played differently using all its workforce and became the right habit of winning outside in the play-off.
NWAL ENDENE MYEM (16 pts at 6/10 on shots including 4/7 at three points, 18 evaluation, 5 rebounds, 1 against) has done everything to retreat retirement and could sing the lyrics of Francis Cabrel’s song just before responding to our microphone: “And it continues, again and again”.
“No, the time of retirement has not yet sounded and I am particularly happy to extend this last route which will therefore conclude in the final. We are really super delighted to be still there when we remember all the difficult moments by which we spent. This afternoon in a meeting where we quickly realized that the bodies were tired, there was a lot of sweating and combat. Take it here. As is the case since the end of the regular season and the start of the play-offs, we were still able to show an extraordinary mental force.
-Knowing that I will be 37 years old on May 15, I asked my partners in the locker room she offers me what would be the most beautiful of gifts (laughs). It is already a great reward for the whole group but now we want to push the thing even further. I really want it to end in style for me and my partners. It would be great to conclude my career on this beautiful note. I would then leave the world’s basketball with a quiet mind. “
Camille DROGUET (9 points, 16 evaluation, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, 3 faults caused): “We had come here with strong intentions by being very determined on this objective and we are too happy to have won in this way. It is the treat to rally the final after such a match. We knew after having failed nothing in the Ardennes in the quarterfinals of the Coupe de France, a real heartbreaker, that we were able to win here. For that, we were doing well. Tighter match but we have accelerated at the right time, by pressing where it was wrong. Miracle to be there. It is perhaps by obtaining the eighth place in the tear, synonymous with qualification in the quarter-finals that we forged this exceptional mental “.
Very quickly adorned with three faults and being content with a dozen minutes of playing time on the prosecution, the French International Jess Mine Zodia (8 points including 6/6 in free throws, 4 faults caused) appreciated seeing his teammates do without this handicap.
“I actually experienced a difficult match but the team is united and united and my thin presence on the prosecution had no negative effect for the group which did the job well. It is too good as we left very far to get there. This time, we did not content the second period, we were in the match forty minutes and the team did not give up when she went in front. The title of champions of France outside by renewing what we have already achieved in Bourges and Charleville-Mézières and being as motivated as to climb where we are “.
