Paris can no longer do it. After two sensational months and a series of fourteen victories which took it to the top of Europe, the capital club is going through a serious slump. Struck by a virus, which forced him to postpone a Euroleague match on Thursday, Tiago Splitter's men suffered a logical defeat this Sunday on the floor of Asvel (98-92) in BetClic Elite, the championship of Basketball France. A fourth setback in ten days.
Star TJ Shorts and Yakuba Ouattara, absent on Tuesday against Madrid, were back. Insufficient to contain the enthusiasm of the Villeurbanne players who were able to take the score in the middle of the second quarter (30-28) before seriously protecting their cushion despite a brief opponent comeback (80-76), then widening the gap in money time. Mathieu Ajinca finished top scorer (20 points), ahead of Parisians Malcolm (19 pts) and Hayes (18 pts). Note the double-double also from Shorts (13 pts, 12 assists).
Reaction expected tomorrow against Limoges
And to think that we have to do it again tomorrow… Paris Basketball, which has fallen to third place to the detriment of Asvel, is currently being decimated by a virus with symptoms similar to those of the flu.
This will not prevent him from playing again this Monday evening (7 p.m.) against Limoges at the Adidas Arena for the 14th day. The meeting should initially have taken place on December 27 but Paris Basketball travels the same day to the Spaniards of Saski Baskonia in the Euroleague.
The schedule therefore found itself very tight with the Christmas holidays. This is the first “back-to-back” (playing two days in a row, something that regularly happens in the NBA) in the history of the French championship.
