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UCAM and Strasbourg fight this Wednesday for the first place in group A of the Champions League and for a direct pass to the next phase
In the midst of the drama that has led to the return to the Endesa League and the three painful defeats that leave UCAM with four wins and six setbacks and with a negative overall ‘basket-average’ of 58 points, Sito Alonso’s men have before them the opportunity to take a confidence bath tonight in Strasbourg.
And it is that this Wednesday, on the court of the French team, the one that is victorious of the two teams that share the leadership of group A (UCAM is first before the game after winning the direct confrontation of the first leg) will have taken a step of giant to get a first place that avoids the ‘play-in’ of classification for the ‘top 16’ of the ‘Champions League’ and that gives half a pass to the next phase.
At a minimum, the winner will have mathematically obtained their classification for that play-off that would cross the second and third place in group A with the third and second place in group B, respectively, in a five-game tie. The only one classified for the ‘top 16’, so far, is the Unicaja of Ibon Navarro and Lima, which is also the only undefeated with its leadership of group G.
mitchell against everyone
The main danger for those of Sito tonight is Matt Mitchell. The 23-year-old American forward is the third highest scorer in the ‘Champions’ (and fifth in the French league) with an average of 22.8 points per game. He had his best performance at the Palace in a duel in which he went up to 26 points, squeezing a game that reached the end evenly.
Unlike that day in Murcia, Strasbourg is no longer directed by the Finnish coach Lassi Tuovi, one of the names of the benches in the past Eurobasket, who has paid for the bad journey of his team in a French league in which he is now It itself is thirteenth (like UCAM) with four wins and seven losses, and its substitute is Luca Banchi. And neither will Stan Okoye, formerly of Zaragoza and Gran Canaria, nor Jamarr Sanders, who did not convince the French, be on the Rhénus Sport floor this Wednesday.
Mitchell’s best squires are the elusive Marcus Keene, also with great scoring potential, the irregular center Bodian Massa and, especially, the veteran Paul Lacombe, a former French international who has returned to Strasbourg, the club he loves, to help him soar in their league and also to keep the ambition of the French club high in the ‘Champions League’.
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