• SIG Strasbouirg has regained some color this season, with a nice 3rd place in the Jeep Elite regular season and a Champions League semi-final.

  • What conclusions can we draw from all this?

    The sports director and two players answer.

  • What about the future of Bonzie Colson, elected MVP this season?

    "It's impossible to keep him", admits Nicola Alberani

GIS is not over!

After two complicated last seasons which had seen it retreat in the national hierarchy, the Strasbourg club returned to the forefront in 2021. First with a Final 4 in the Champions League then, last week, a half. Jeep Elite final lost to Asvel (67-83).

What to draw a good balance sheet?

"Yes, it is very positive, unlike our last game," replied the leader Jean-Baptiste Maille, still crossed by opposite feelings.

Because a little frustration came to mingle with the feeling of duty more than accomplished.

"When you are a competitor and you are only two games away from the title, you have a hard time digesting having lost", summarizes his partner Léo Cavalière, before quickly returning to better feelings.

Because the objectives have been achieved and even exceeded.

Now, the hardest part may be starting for the SIG, starting from zero last season with a new coach (Lassi Tuovi), a new sports director (Nicola Alberani) and a totally messed up squad.

"It is often said that this is the second most complicated season," confirms Jean-Baptiste Maille, who will still be there when it starts up.

Just like Cavalière, interiors Yannis Morin and Ike Udanoh, as well as Captain DeAndre Lansdowne.

A recruitment that promises to be late

But without Bonzie Colson, elected MVP of the season in Jeep Elite (18 points, 5 rebounds and an average rating of 19) and in the Champions League. "It's impossible to keep him," admits Nicola Alberani. “Not just for the money. Like Ishmaïl Wainright, these are players who have the Euroleague or NBA level and we do not play these competitions. "For the small leader-shooter Brandon Jefferson, the Italian manager also admits that the file promises to be" complicated "and requires patience.

The rookies, five or six players, are likely to arrive late, from mid-August.

"We will be able to be aggressive and creative at the end of the market", he justifies in a way of recalling that the SIG seduces… but after many better referenced clubs.

So the Alsatian team will try to surprise once again, in a Jeep Elite where Asvel, Monaco, Boulogne-Levallois and Bourg-en-Bresse have higher budgets.

“The objective is to form a team of which our supporters are proud,” concludes the sporting director.

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