They ignited the Halle Carpentier! Promoted this season after being created in 2018 (repurchase of the sports rights of Hyères-Toulon), Paris Basketball won the first derby in its young history against the leader Boulogne-Levallois (83-78) disputed in a warm atmosphere.
In precarious balance (5 wins, 10 losses before this match), Paris shows that he likes the big ones. This is his second prestigious success this season after the scalp of the double champion of France ASVEL. Jean-Christophe Prat’s team will have to maintain this same degree of intensity and put as much energy against less prestigious opponents if they want to get closer to the first part of the table and ensure a quiet hold. Before aiming higher in the coming years.
Paris has found a catalyst and a new leader with Axel Toupane. For his first match, the reigning NBA champion with the Milwaukee Bucks who has just joined (two and a half year contract) the ambitious Parisian project, made a very clean copy. He finished the game with 16 points (his team’s top scorer) at 60%, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in 28 minutes.
The 2nd defeat in a row for Boulogne-Levallois
Penultimate attack of BetClic Elite, Paris managed to put out the best attack, Boulogne-Levallois. The Metropolitans who had seen their series of 12 consecutive victories stopped by Roanne last week concede their second defeat in a row. Collectively, they were rather disappointing and mainly relied on the duo Miralem Halilović (22 points) – Vince Hunter (21 points).
Paris, which has always been in front, broke away thanks to a 7-0 at the start of the 4th quarter. The young pivot Ismaël Kamagate (21 years old, 2.11 m) was the king of the racket and delighted as on this sumptuous dunk (34th).
Toupane, MVP of the match: “I came to be a leader
“I came to be a leader because there are a lot of young players, there is still work to do, but it’s a very good victory, we had a good match”, underlines Axel Toupane, elected MVP of the match and who found Vincent Collet, his first coach in Strasbourg who became that of Boulogne-Levallois. His dad, Jean-Aimé Toupane (coach of the French women’s team), was him in the stands of Carpentier. He must have appreciated Axel’s promising first and the collective and defensive performance of Paris Baskekball
Match sheet
PARIS BASKETBALL – BOULOGNE-LEVALLOIS: 83-78 (17-14, 18-19), 26-24, 22-21).
Paris : Allman Jr (7), Boatright (6), O’Quinn (14), Kamagaté (6), Ju. Begarin (8), Denis (14), Steva (12), Toupane (16) Entr. : Prat.
Boulogne-Levallois: Cummings (16), Hornsby (6), Halilovic (22), Crocker (6), Hunter (21), Michineau (2), B. Sy (4), Ho You Fat (0), Ginat (1). Entr. : Collet.
