Toulouse. The TBC must cut ties with the defeat
> The essential
Third match in eight days for the TBC which must find the way to victory if it wants to keep intact its chances of participating in the play-offs, reserved for the first seven of group B of the 2nd phase.
> Expected homogeneity
Tuesday in Andrézieux, Carl Ponsar (18 points, 3 of 6 from 3 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 fouls) was the tree that hid a sick forest. Captain Fayçal Sahraoui is still loved by his calf injury. Adrien Thimon (2 out of 11 on shots in Forez) is very far from having regained his best level.
The eleven TBC players formed a too heterogeneous squad on Tuesday. To win, and overtake Pont-de-Chéruy in seventh place, they must regain the consistency that has been their strength during their victories.
> Good memories
The TBC has excellent memories of its last confrontations with the Isère club. It was by beating him twice (in the quarter-final return and support match of the French N2 championship in 2017) that the TBC had acquired its accession to N1. Since then, water has flowed under the bridges. The TBC refused the climb to accept it one after and Pont-de-Chéruy, which obtained it in 2019, is establishing itself as a reference club of N1.
This season, it was Dounia Issa who took the team’s dreams. The Toulousain by birth, former international (14 caps), who started in the basket at Mirail leads another well-known head in the Pink City: the Franco-Malian pivot Cheikh Soumaoro, who arrived from Bamako at the age of 16 in sports studies in Toulouse, has played for the TBC before joining the Rouen training center. He is one of the leaders of his team, which beat Cergy-Pontoise on Tuesday (69-66), along with leader Bryan Coudray and wingers Jacques Eyoum and Damien Nsele Ebele.