Basket. Thanks to its victory against Pau-Orthez, Monaco is back at the top of the standings. sport
Monaco won at home against Pau-Orthez (85-76) on Sunday at the end of this weekend of the French basketball championship, and joins Boulogne-Levallois in the lead, who lost in Strasbourg on Saturday.
After the defeat against Dijon the previous day, ASM catches up and regains second place in the Elite, with the same record as the Metropolitans 92 (21 wins, eight losses), ahead of Asvel (third), which however has one more game to play.
ASM won without its American leader Mike James, so valuable in the offensive creation of his team, but once could count on its Lithuanian pivot Donatas Motiejunas (fourteen points, six rebounds), absent against Dijon.
Sasa Obradovic’s players took the lead from the start, leading 25-19 at the end of the first quarter thanks to superior collective strength in attack.
The Monegasques offered their public beautiful sequences organized around their pivot at the head of the racket. Very often, ASM’s fast ball circulation has overtaken the Béarnaise defense.
In attack, the leader Paris Lee was very fair (20 points), well supported by Danilo Andjusic, who had already scored fifteen of his 17 points at halftime.
After reassuring itself on the national scene, the Roca team will now be able to turn to its European challenge: it will play the first match of its series against Olympiakos Piraeus on Wednesday (8 p.m.) at the start of the Final 8 of the Euroleague.
Limoges will host Châlons-Reims in the final match of the 29th day of the championship on Sunday April 24 (6 p.m.).