Europe 1 with AFP 22:32 p.m., April 18, 2023

In a match of tight support until the end, Strasbourg finally lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League basketball against the Germans of Bonn (83-77). Without their best player Marcus Keene, the SIG players have not demerited and come out with honors.

Strasbourg was eliminated from the Basketball Champions League (BCL) by losing Tuesday in Bonn (83-77) in a support match. The SIG had to win in Germany to reach the last four of this European Cup, lower level than the Euroleague but comparable to that of the Eurocup, the other tournament organized by the private league.

Deprived on injury of their main asset Marcus Keene, one of the best scorers of the tournament (18.1 points average) and the France championship (20.7 pts), the Alsatians resisted and even led 65-63 at the end of the third quarter.

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Mastery in the last quarter

Americans Tim Frazier (20 pts) and DeAndre Lansdowne (17 pts) kept hope alive. But they came up against in the last quarter the mastery of the German club led by its leader TJ Shorts (24 pts), expected as the MVP of the competition. Without Keene, injured in a thigh against Dijon on Saturday, the qualification of the SIG would have been a feat against Bonn, interspersed at the top of the German championship between Alba Berlin and Bayern Munich, the two German representatives in the Euroleague.