Host of Bourges this Saturday, April 30 for the 22nd day of the Women’s League of Basaket, in Lattes (8 p.m.), the BLMA has three chances of slipping into the play-off.
At one stage of the end of the regular season, several uncertainties remain, starting with the identity of the last elected. Be the BLMAjoint seventh with Angers or Saint-Amand (9th to one point), the border being very tenuous between play-off and play-down.
Only certainties, Bourges will finish in 1st place, Roche-Vendée in 6th and Charnay in 12th. The jumping seat of dolphin will return to the winner of Villeneuve-d’Ascq – Basket Landes, the loser then finding himself 3rd or 4th, according to the verdict of LDLC Asvel (3rd or 4th, him, according to his result and that of Roche-Vendée – Charleville -Mézières) against Saint-Amand, an Asvel whose Gazelles will suddenly be the first supporters… “We don’t ask questions, we go for it. The “last” against Tango Bourges is a match for the team to continue to progress”, says Valéry Demory.
The latter and his Gazelles are in a favorable position since a success from Angers to Landerneau and/or from Asvel against Saint-Amand would qualify the Latto-Montpelliéraines. The worst scenario? Three defeats for the Gazelles, Angers at Landerneau and Asvel at home, difficult to imagine all the same against Saint-Amand which would lead to a fatal three-way tie for the Gazelles, last of this mini-championship and suddenly 9th.
Four known recruits
While Tarbes, Landerneau and Charnay wait to know their last rival in play-down, the BLMA prepares the arrival of the Tango Bourgeswinner of the Eurocup “et best team this season“. “For this match, they are the ones who have the keys because if they go all out, they’re stronger than us. We have to see what state of mind they will be in, analyzes the technician. Which does not lose sight of a feat of the type of that achieved against Asvel in December. By having achieved the essentials, not without difficulty against Tarbes GB (78-75), the BLMA freed their heads, being able to rely more “on Day’s burst of energy that brought us beyond his four pitches.” Knowing also that several of the executives were not at their best over the 40 minutes! We will therefore swear nothing with these sometimes unpredictable Gazelles.
As the end draws near, the 2022-2023 season is launched, and we can already announce that Tchatchouang, married, Wallace, Day, Mbuyamba will no longer wear the Hérault tunic, the Peters case still being pending. To the quartet still under contract (Berniès, Touré, Dabovic, Naigre and the young Zemoura), we will add the already known recruits : the two “Belgian Cats” Julie Vanloo, Kyara Linskens, Marieme Badiane and another (young) Lioness, Garance Rabot. Waiting for the next….
