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Les Honey Badgers de Brampton résistent à une remontée tardive des Bandits lors d’une victoire de 96-91

Josh Kozelj • July 14, 2023

Les Honey Badgers de Brampton (6-9) ont mis fin à une série de cinq défaites en remportant une victoire de 96-91 sur la route contre les Bandits de Vancouver (5-9) vendredi soir.

 

Christian Vital a marqué 20 points, un record d'équipe, et a résisté une tentative tardive des Bandits en réussissant le lancer franc de la victoire dans le temps du pointage cible. Vital a également distribué quatre passes décisives et pris trois rebonds.

 

Grâce à cette victoire, les Honey Badgers sont à égalité avec l'Alliance de Montréal pour la dernière place des séries éliminatoires dans la conférence de l'Est.

 

« Il s'agit d'une victoire très importante pour nous », a déclaré l'entraîneur-chef de Brampton, Antoine Broxsie, après le match. « Nous sommes sur les talons de Montréal, la conférence de l'Est est très, très serrée. »

 

Après que les Bandits aient pris une avance de 10-0 dans le temps du pointage cible, Brampton n'étant plus qu'à un point de la victoire, Vital a été victime d'une faute par deux Bandits juste à l'extérieur de la ligne de lancer franc. Le joueur le plus utile des finales de la LECB en titre a réussi le premier lancer franc sous les cris de milliers de partisans au Centre Langley Events.

 

« J'ai aimé le fait que nous ayons joué ensemble », a déclaré Broxsie. « Ils avaient un certain côté que je n'avais pas vu depuis quelques semaines. »

 

Cody John a contribué avec 18 points et cinq rebonds en sortant du banc. John, qui affichait une moyenne de 8,4 points avant le match d'aujourd'hui, a également tiré 58 pour cent du terrain et inscrit deux tirs à trois points.

 

Malcom Duvivier a marqué 23 points et pris neuf rebonds dans un effort sans succès. 17 de ces points ont été marqués après la mi-temps.

 

L'entraîneur adjoint des Bandits, Tony Scott, a déclaré que Vancouver avait bien joué pendant certaines parties du match, mais qu'ils devaient s'efforcer de jouer un match complet pour mettre fin à sa série de trois défaites.

 

« Lors de nos deux derniers matchs, vous avez remarqué que nous avons eu des parties du match où nous semblions cliqué », a-t-il déclaré.

 

« La plupart de nos matchs, quand c'est serré et que nous sommes menés de 18 points, nous revenons à l’Elam et tout d'un coup c'est un match serré. Si nous parvenons à transformer cette section de l'Elam en un match à part entière, nous aurons fait ce que nous voulions. »

 

Dès le coup d'envoi, le match s'est déroulé avec une intensité digne des séries éliminatoires.

 

Doug Herring Jr, qui affiche une moyenne de 11 points en trois matchs avant le match, a commencé le match pour la deuxième fois de la saison et a marqué les cinq premiers points de Vancouver. Mais le duo Vital et Koby McEwen, qui ont combiné 47 points dans une victoire de 98-74 contre les Bandits en juin, a compté 15 points combinés dans le quart.

 

Vital, en particulier, a réussi un trois points du côté gauche de l'arc à la dernière seconde pour donner aux Honey Badgers une avance d'un point après le premier quart.

 

Les Bandits ont également souffert des revirements au cours des cinq premières minutes de la partie. Vancouver a perdu le ballon quatre fois dans la première moitié du quart, mais Brampton n'a marqué que deux points sur ces revirements.

 

Au début du deuxième quart, Brampton a entrepris une série de 12-3 et a commencé à prendre les devants. Leur avance a été alimentée par des tirs précis à trois points.

 

Après avoir marqué trois tirs à trois points dans le premier quart, les Honey Badgers en ont marqué quatre dans le deuxième. Vital et McEwen ont chacun réussi deux tirs à trois points. Zane Waterman, qui est revenu le 12 juillet après une absence de trois matchs en raison d'une blessure au pouce, a aussi accumulé cinq points et cinq rebonds en première demie.

 

Brampton a terminé la soirée avec 11 tirs de trois points.

 

Nick Ward, qui a marqué 21 points lors de la dernière rencontre entre Vancouver et Brampton, a marqué neuf points en première demie.

 

Après la pause, Vancouver a réussi à faire taire les joueurs de l’attaque de Brampton. Vital et McEwen n'ont pas marqué au cours du troisième quart, mais John et Waterman ont marqué sept et six points respectivement pour donner aux Honey Badgers une avance de 72-52 au début du quatrième quart.

 

Les esprits se sont échauffés lorsque le match est entré dans le quatrième quart. Au milieu du quart, les meilleurs marqueurs des deux équipes à ce moment, Ward (15 points) et McEwen (18), ont été expulsés pour des fautes techniques consécutives. Les deux vedettes ont été surprises en train de jacasser sous le panier après que Ward a subi une faute sur une attaque vers le panier.

 

Ward a terminé avec 15 points et sept rebonds, tandis que McEwen a récolté six passes décisives et six rebonds en plus de ses 18 points.

 

Avant l'heure du pointage cible, le momentum a commencé à changer après un dunk de Duvivier en contre-attaque sur Waterman qui a ramené la foule dans le match. Le dunk a déclenché une série de 6-0 des Bandits, mais Waterman a mis fin à la série avec un trois points après un temps mort de Brampton.

 

Les Honey Badgers ont ensuite pris une avance de 15 points au début du temps du pointage cible et sont passés à un point de la victoire lorsque les Bandits ont fait une poussée en fin de match. Cependant, Vital est allé chercher une faute juste à l'extérieur de la ligne des trois points pour mettre fin à un 10-0 dans le temps du pointage cible et maintenir les espoirs de Brampton pour les séries éliminatoires.

 

Malgré trois défaites consécutives, l’arrière, Diego Maffia, est persuadé que les Bandits seront en mesure de renverser les choses à l'approche de la fin de semaine du Championnat.

 

« Je pense que nous avons mis en place ce groupe de gars et qu'il s'agit maintenant de grandir [ensemble] », a-t-il déclaré. « Nous sommes à la maison maintenant... C'est bien d'être ici et d'avoir plus de temps pour s'entraîner. »

 

Les Honey Badgers tenteront de remporter leur deuxième victoire consécutive lundi soir en Saskatchewan contre les Rattlers. Vancouver, pour sa part, tentera de rebondir à domicile contre l'Alliance, dimanche.

 

L'horaire complet de diffusion des matchs de la semaine de la LECB sur TSN se trouve ici. Tous les matchs seront également diffusés en direct à l'échelle internationale sur la plateforme OTT de la LECB, CEBL+, et sur l'application CEBL Mobile pour les appareils iOS et Android.

 

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