Paris (AFP)
Monaco easily came to the end of Limoges (86 to 59), Saturday night on his floor in an advanced match of the 14th day of the French basketball championship and continues with a fourth success in a row at the national level.
The Roca Team, coached by Montenegrin Zvezdan Mitrovic, now have a record of four wins for just one loss, and have not lost in Elite since their first match of the season against Boulogne-Levallois in mid-September.
For its part, Limoges has three wins for three defeats in the league.
Monaco strengthens its 4th place in the standings of a French championship in slow motion due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while Boulogne-Levallois (5 wins, 1 defeat), who faces Nanterre (3, 1) on Sunday afternoon in the Ile-de-France derby, will try to consolidate its second place behind the leader Bourg-en-Bresse (4, 0).
Saturday evening in a Gaston-Médecin room behind closed doors because of the health situation, Mathias Lessort's teammates (8 points) dominated the meeting from start to finish, taking a ten-point lead fairly quickly.
Four Monegasque players passed the ten-point mark, the palm going to Serbian Nikola Rebic, author of 15 points including a nice 4 out of 6 with three points.
For the CSP, Jerry Boutsiele (17 points) and Philip Scrubb (13 pts) were a bit lonely, scoring alone more than half of their team's points.
Boutsiele and Lessort, as well as Nicolas Lang, will now join the gathering of the France team in Pau, for the two qualifying matches for the 2022 European Championship against Great Britain and Germany next week.
Result and classification of the 14th day of the Elite basketball championship:
Saturday November 21
Monaco - Limoges 86 - 59
Friday, December 18
(8:30 p.m.) Boulogne-Levallois - Dijon
Saturday 19 December
(8:00 p.m.) Roanne - Nanterre
Bourg-en-Bresse - Le Portel
Boulazac - Orleans
Chalon-sur-Saône - Le Mans
Strasbourg - Gravelines
Cholet - Châlons-Reims
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