Dwayne Bacon and Monaco twist Strasbourg on the ringtone
Incredible outcome Wednesday in Monaco. The advanced match of the 24th day of Betclic Elite between the team of the principality, at home, and Strasbourg ended with a miraculous basket from the Monegasque winger Dwayne Bacon at the buzzer of the extension (105-103 ap) on a throw-in and a long pass from Léon Westermann from his own baseline, with just one and seven tenths remaining on the clock.
SIG captain DeAndre Lansdowne (15 points), author of ten points out of his team’s fourteen in extra time, came to restore the advantage (103-102), Monaco had no more time out and therefore had to try a desperate blow masterfully succeeded by Bacon (24 points).
Strasbourg can have big regrets. The Alsatians, qualified the day before for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, led fifteen points in the third quarter before being joined on the wire (89-89) on two free throws from Mike James. They still led by five units (99-94) in the extension before being crucified on one of the baskets of the year, unfortunately missed by the robot cameras of LNB TV.
ASM remains second in the standings while SIG, which played with a reduced squad (three absentees), fell to seventh place. Note the first basket among the pros of young leader Illan Pietrus (16), son of former international Florent, for the Alsatians.