Basketball: Monaco Let Late Lead Slip as Nanterre Claim Game 2 Victory
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The next two meetings with the Francilians will take place on Wednesday evening in front of Nanterre.
Basketball: Monaco let late lead slip as Nanterre claim Game 2 victory
AS Monaco surrendered a late lead on 3 June at Salle Gaston Médecin, falling 98-89 to Nanterre in Game 2 of the best-of-five Betclic Elite semi-finals, allowing Nanterre to level the series at 1-1. After an impressive end to Game 1 with an unbelievable fourth quarter performance, Monaco appeared to be on track to take control of the series. The team held the lead at the end of each quarter before a critical fourth-quarter collapse allowed Nanter…
Nanterre didn't say his last word. Barely 48 hours after the defeat against Monaco, Julien Mahé's players found the floor of the Salle Gaston-Médecin but the result was absolutely not the same. A match 2 that first saw the two teams go off but the gap never exceeded five units. Finding more solutions in attack under the impulse of Elie Okobo (23 points, 8 passes), the "Roca Team" concluded these first ten minutes with a short margin of four unit…
Behind an implausible harvest of offensive rebounds and second odds in mess, Nanterre created the Monegasque feat (98-89) and put both teams on a tie in these semifinals (1-1) before returning home this Saturday for the next two rounds.
The series is now moving to Nanterre.
Two days after his success in Game 1 of Betclic Elite's semifinals, the AS Monaco basketball failed to make it to Gaston-Médecin. On Wednesday night, the Principality's players were dominated by Nanterre (89-98) and are now tied to the JSF, in the semifinal of the French championship.
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