Hope only a quarter. The KP basketball players fell again with the French, the chances are getting weaker
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While in the mutual competition in Angers, Brno’s basketball players kept pace with the opponent for at least half the time, this time only for a quarter. Even though they didn’t go into the match, after the first part of the game they only played for six points.
But Angers dominated from the second quarter and led by almost forty points as time went on. “We were down fourteen by halftime, that’s a huge number. They had to, mine could. We shouldn’t have given it to them for free. We were afraid, we didn’t attack the basket, we were always looking for a better position, even if they weren’t there,” Karolína Fadrhsonová, the most productive KP player with ten points, named the reasons for the loss.
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Although the Brňa women lost to Angers by the same margin as in the first match between them, this time, unlike the previous match, the French women controlled the lead practically from start to finish. “I am proud of our team. You could definitely see the difference between our first and second game. You can see how we are improving,” praised Ivana Jakubcová, the Slovakian representative at Angers.
The local basketball players averted the debacle in the final quarter, which they won 16:13. “We have to learn to play more calmly, to listen to the coach. Not to do what we want,” Fadrhonsová raged.
They’ll need the bras. Already on Saturday, starting at half past four in the afternoon, they will face the hegemon of the Czech league, USK Praha, at home. Next Wednesday, the final group match of the EuroCup awaits them against the favorite from France, Charleville, on whose scoreboard they lost in the first match against each other by more than seventy points.
At the same time, he must beat him in order to maintain a realistic hope of progressing to the playoffs. “It is positive for us that the intensity that the French women showed us now could not possibly be greater. We have to convert chances and not pass the position,” added Nevrlý.
KP Brno – Angers 44:68
Quarters: 3:21 p.m., 7:19 a.m., 6:15 a.m., 4:13 p.m.
Most points of KP Brno: 10 – Fadrhonsová, 7 – Dudáčková, 6 – A. Kopecká, Pelanderová.
Most Angers points: 16 – Petersonová, 10 – Cornelia – Sigmundová, Fofanová.
KP Brno: E. Kopecká, A. Kopecká, Hynková, Galíčková, Zítková – Vlčková, Fadrhonsová, Šotolová, Světlíková.