Thanks to two free throws from Elie Okobo in the last seconds of the match, ASVEL snatched the victory on the Le Mans floor (80-81) and passed the Sarthois in the Betclic Elite classification.
ASVEL is gradually getting back into working order. After a very complicated month of December, the players of TJ Parker took advantage of their trip to the Le Mans floor to sign a second victory in a row in Betclic Elite. A meeting that the MSB players started with a 6-0 and, against disoriented Rhodaniens, they took an early lead of eleven points. However, the Villeurbannais started to enter the game and erased most of their deficit thanks to a 9-0 before equalizing just before the conclusion of the first ten minutes.
From there, Chris Jones’ teammates (12 points) took control of the game and raced in the lead throughout the second quarter. But the gap was never significant, ASVEL never having more than a five-point lead until the return to the locker room. More incisive, the Rhodaniens pushed their advantage to eight lengths on the return on the floor of Antarès.
✅ @LDLCASVEL had the last word and won the shock of this 16th day of #BetclicELITE ! pic.twitter.com/HaeVHmGGpw
— LNB (@LNBofficial) January 16, 2022
Okobo releases ASVEL
The MSB, pushed by its supporters and led by Dante Cunningham (15 points), then found solutions in attack to conclude this third quarter with a 6-0 and come back up to ASVEL ten minutes from the end of the game. the encounter. A trend that was confirmed at the start of the fourth quarter but the seven-unit lead then built immediately disappeared, Le Mans managing to get back in front but only fleetingly. The end of the match was a crossover but, one second from the buzzer, Elie Okobo (13 points, 7 assists) did not shake on two free throws to put ASVEL in front for the last action.
Despite a ball coming up in the middle of the field thanks to a last timeout, the MSB did not manage to find a solution on the throw-in of Kaza Kajami-Keane (13 points, 7 assists). ASVEL won by a small point (80-81) for its ninth victory in fifteen games. Beaten for the second time in a row, Le Mans saw the Rhone club pass it in the Betclic Elite standings, with the same record.
BASKET – BETCLIC ELITE / 16EME JOURNEE
Friday, January 14, 2022
Gravelines-Dunkirk – Dijon : 67-76
The Portal – Cholet : 69-85
Roanne – Fos-sur-Mer: 101-76
Saturday January 15, 2022
Bourg-en-Bresse – Chalons-Reims : 97-98 (ap)
Nanterre – Monaco : 87-83
Pau-Lacq-Orthez – Orléans : 94-85
Strasbourg – Limoges : 97-66
Paris – Boulogne-Levallois: 83-78
Sunday January 16, 2022
Le Mans – ASVEL : 80-81
