The Roca Team of Monaco in the semi-finals of the French Elite basketball championship will face Pau
Monaco qualified on the wire 82-80 after extra time by overthrowing Strasbourg this Monday, May 30 at home. The Rocateam will face Pau in the semi-finals of the French Elite basketball championship, with the first two games of the series on the Rock.
L’As Monaco Basket, alias the “Roca Team”, second in the regular season and heroic quarter-finalist in the Euroleague, it is once again very scary this Monday evening at home.
Beaten to everyone’s surprise in her hall during the first match of the quarter-finals, she had snatched the right to play a match by going to win in Alsace last Friday, already after extra time (97-95).
This May 30, Sasa Obradovic’s men were emblematic dominated by SIG – Strasbourg.
Led 48-29 at half-time, the Monegasques provided a gigantic effort in the 3rd quarter, won 23-15, then in the fourth to come back to 70-70 with 1 minute 30s remaining, especially under the impulse of an unleashed Mike James (24 points) and Dwayne Bacon (13 pts), who was able to win the extension once again thanks to a two-point shot 11 seconds from the buzzer.
The two teams neck and neck for the five extra minutes, it was again Bacon who finally gave Monaco the victory.
The “Roca Team” will face in the semi-final, disputed in the best of five matches, Pau Lacq Orthez who qualified on Saturday at the expense of Boulogne-Levallois at the end of the second quarter between the two teams (81-71).
-With AFP