By putting in a match of rare intensity, Saturday evening, the Tarbaises won the derby by 11 points against Basket Landes to come back to 2 points from the podium.
Nancy Fora (TGB leader): “It’s a big relief, we had a big match. We knew that Basket Landes was a big team, we knew the quality of their roster, the abilities they had and what they were capable of doing. It’s a Euroleague team, it was a derby, we wanted to give everything and that’s what we did, we defended like dogs. satisfaction at having won the match with such performance I had very heavy legs at the end of the match because the position of leader is complicated, especially against Marie Pardon, who is one of the best defenders in the championship in this position, but my teammates pushed me to. to have more energy. In Villeneuve-d’Ascq, we were caught at the end of the match only to lose in the end, and we didn’t want to relive a scenario like that. continued to play without much asking questions. I remembered the scenario from last year, where they came up by around ten points in the fourth quarter. I felt we were having a good day, the game was fluid and there were these two big shots from Isabelle Strunc and Camille Droguet, and I knew that not much could happen to us.”
Jess-Mine Zodiac : (pivot du TGB) : “We know that a derby is not a match like any other and what’s more, we were keen to make up for the European Cup match against Keltern. It’s true that the way we approach the match is different and we know that anything can happen We are more concentrated to impose our rhythm and try to put more intensity. A good defense helps us to have a good attack and when we started to doubt, François gave us. put back in the right direction We had to regain confidence because on Wednesday. we play again against the Germans in the second leg of the EuroCup.”
François Gomez (TGB coach): “It’s a special match because we have to develop things that we perhaps don’t usually do. We were coming off a poor performance in Keltern from which we returned with our heads down. We had to take on the values of the South-West in this South-West derby, that is to say those of commitment, intensity, combat and the will to win; ‘we demonstrated that we could do that in the face of an excellent team with exceptional players. We scored 70 points, above what we usually score and Basket Landes was below. a real desire to attack But, sometimes we pass the ball around too much, bayonets fixed… We could have done a little better.”
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