Paris (AFP)
Villeurbanne, the first of the regular season, had great difficulties to get out of Le Mans, in match 1 of the quarter-finals of the French Basketball Championship, while Dijon offered a health walk against Strasbourg on Saturday night. .
Two weeks after the final of the Coupe de France won by men Zvezdan Mitrovic, Asvel and the MSB, champion of France in title, had another appointment, this time in the playoffs of the championship, and the scenario was almost identical to the match played in Paris-Bercy under the eyes of the president of Villeurbanne, Tony Parker.
The Manceaux, who missed their first leg and saved their place in the play-offs at the end of the regular season, dominated the debates in the first half, but did not take the lead they had built fourteen days later. early.
Asvel were six points back at the start of the third quarter (42-36, 21st) and five before the last fifteen minutes (52-47), but accelerated to take the lead at the start of the last quarter -time.
With 17 and 15 points respectively, Croatian pivot Miro Bilan and strong US forward Adreian Payne finished their team's top scorers for a logical 73-67 victory.
The party was total at the Astroballe, since the public Rhone celebrated its basketball players Lyon Asvel, crowned for the first time champions of France, a little over two years after the purchase of the club by Tony Parker.
In the other quarter Elite played Saturday night, the Dijonnais home have not had the same worries as Asvel, and corrected Strasbourg 94 to 62, led by their MVP of the regular season, David Holston, best marker of the JDA (15 points).
Six Burgundy players have passed the bar of ten points, a depth of bench that will be essential to hope to go far in these play-offs led on a frantic pace.
Sunday night, Nanterre in the Palais des Sports in Pau against Elan Bearn, and Monaco in Limoges in the Beaublanc Hall, can already ensure their presence in the last four in case of victory outside.
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