By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
In control, enjoying a double-digit lead most of the way in Salle Gaston Medecin, Le Mans beat AS Monaco, 86-74, on Sunday.
TaShawn Thomas with 21 points in Round 9 of France’s Betclic Elite Regular Season pushed his side to 5-4. From 6-3 to 5-3 due to a sanction by the LNB at the top of the 2024-25 season, the back-to-back champions are now 2.5 games away from leading Cholet.
In the loss against MSB, Donatas Motiejunas recorded a team-high 17 points and Mike James followed with 15 points. Vitto Brown, Nick Calathes, Mam Jaiteh, Furkan Korkmaz, and Matthew Strazel were inactive.
A confident display by LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne in Stade des Flandres resulted in a 81-60 victory versus BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque and improved the domestic record to 7-2. Theo Maledon combined 20 points with six assists and four rebounds. Melvin Ajinca, Edwin Jackson, Paris Lee, and Admiral Schofield remained sidelined.
Coming out of a two-game week of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, similar to Monaco and ASVEL, Paris rested TJ Shorts II and Leon Kratzer. Destroying SIG Strasbourg, 106-74, in Adidas Arena shaped a 7-2 tally.
Betclic Elite Round 9
La Rochelle – Nanterre 92 77-98
SLUC Nancy – Limoges CSP 90-86 OT (75-75)
Elan Chalon – JL Bourg 86-93
JDA Dijon – Saint-Quentin 85-91
Cholet – ESSM Le Portel 80-65
BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque – LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 60-81
AS Monaco – Le Mans 74-86
Paris – SIG Strasbourg 106-74
STANDINGS: Cholet 7-1, Paris 7-2, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 7-2, JL Bourg 6-3, Saint-Quentin 6-3…
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