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Big game at the top of the standings between reigning French champion Roanne and multi times runner up Nancy. It’s an important match especially for the hosts as they are one game behind Nancy and the guests hold a +27 tie breaker, so in case Roanne loose they would be 3 games behind. Anyway both coaches pointed out the fact that it’s super important to finish in the top 4 and have home court advantage in the Playoffs.

So we can easily understand Roanne’s motivation here as in 29 regular season home games, since last season, they have won 27, as generally, the Halle Vacheresse is one of the hottest gym in the league with more than 3000 who do a great job pushing its team and putting a lot of pressure on refs and opponents. The hosts are complete with Byars finally producing and with the emergence of subs PG Poupet who has done some good job on recent games. The rest is top class with Salyers, sniper Brion Rush and Center Badiane. Coach Choulet wasn’t pleased with the last performance @Vichy in a loss, and you can expect the team to come out strong.

On the other hand, Nancy kinda redeemed itself in a home win against Le Mans, and a cup win @Vichy last Wednesday. But the team has been too irregular in the past couple of the weeks to really draw conclusions on those games. Julian and Bauer should be OK for this game, but their injured form can be a negative factor with a 3 game in a week, whereas Roanne is still fresh. Nancy has some good offensive arguments on the wings with the Greer brothers, even tough Jeff is very irregular, but I have to point out the fact that defensively they are not very dangerous against Salyers/Rush duo.

Both teams looks close on the paper, but for tonight, home court advantage, fatigue and bigger motivation on the host side should be decisive factors, as I believe that it will be hard for Nancy to run during 40 minutes (something they could not achieve in Le Havre two weeks ago).



Pick : Roanne -3.5
Odds : 1.99
Stake : 6 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
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Date : 2008-04-19
Match Result : 81-74
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