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Les Sea Bears de Winnipeg gagnent 100-75 contre le Surge de Calgary lors du premier match d’une série de matchs aller-retour

Josh Kozelj • July 17, 2023

Teddy Allen a réussi son troisième match consécutif de plus de 30 points et les Sea Bears de Winnipeg (11-6) sont restés devant le Surge de Calgary (8-8) dans la course à la première place de la conférence de l'Ouest grâce à une victoire de 100-75 au Centre Canada Life.

 

Allen a terminé avec 37 points, y compris le tir en foulée gagnant dans le temps du pointage cible.

 

« Je suis vraiment fier de mes gars pour la façon dont ils ont défendu et se sont présentés à la planche », a déclaré Allen après le match. « C'est ce qui a été le plus important dans ce match. »

 

Allen a fait un peu de tout sur le terrain ce soir : cinq rebonds, cinq passes décisives et quatre vols. Le natif de Phoenix, en Arizona, a également converti six des 17 tirs de trois points de Winnipeg au cours de l'après-midi.

 

En tant qu'équipe, Winnipeg a tiré 43 pour cent du terrain. Mais leur défense a été l'une des principales raisons de la victoire.

 

Winnipeg s'est présenté au match d'aujourd'hui en donnant le deuxième plus grand nombre de points par match dans la LECB (89,9), mais a mis de la pression sur Calgary sur presque chaque possession et a effectué 13 vols cet après-midi. L'entraîneur-chef de Winnipeg, Mike Taylor, a félicité la défense de son équipe après la victoire.

 

« C'est ce qui va nous aider dans l’après-saison », a-t-il déclaré. « Il se peut que vous ne puissiez pas marquer aussi facilement que vous le voulez, ou que l'une de vos vedettes n'ait pas une bonne journée, mais vous devez quand même trouver un moyen de gagner, et ce moyen, c'est de défendre les gens. »

 

Stef Smith a mené le Surge avec 15 points, six rebonds et trois passes décisives, mais il a perdu le ballon à huit reprises, le plus haut résultat du match. Calgary, qui était privé de l'ailier Simi Shittu pour des raisons personnelles, a enregistré 19 revirements dans le match, ce qui a permis aux Sea Bears de marquer 34 points.

 

Sean Miller Moore, le meilleur marqueur de Calgary, qui a commencé cet après-midi avec une moyenne de 16,9 points par match, a eu de la difficulté toute la journée, ne tirant que 22 pour cent et marquant 12 points.

 

Les premières minutes du match laissaient présager une tournure tout à fait différente.

 

Les Surge a fait une série de 8-0, souligné par une paire de trois points, dans le premier quart pour prendre une avance précoce. Taylor, cependant, a choisi de ne pas prendre de temps mort et de laisser son équipe jouer malgré le déficit initial.

 

Taylor a été récompensé puisque les Sea Bears ont entamé une série de 9-0 qui a commencé après que Shane Osayande ait détourné un ballon de la planche sur la possession offensive suivante de Calgary. Il a ensuite réussi un trois points pour mettre fin à la série, tandis que les deux premiers trois points de l'après-midi d'Allen ont forcé l'entraîneur-chef de Calgary, Nelson Terroba, à prendre un temps mort.

 

La pause n'a guère freiné l'élan de Winnipeg, qui s'est lancé dans une série de 29-5 après les huit premiers points de Calgary pour prendre une avance de 33-17 après le premier quart.

 

Allen a inscrit 18 de ses 37 points au cours du premier quart et a été parfait sur le terrain (6-6) et aux tirs à trois points (4-4).

 

Glen Yang, qui n'avait marqué qu'un seul panier lors du dernier match de Winnipeg, a marqué 10 points en première demie et a terminé le match avec 15 points. E.J. Anosike a égalé Yang avec 15 points et six paniers à deux points.

 

« Dans les derniers matchs, je ne pense pas que j'étais à mon meilleur niveau, en termes d'agressivité », a déclaré Yang. « Des gars comme Teddy dans le vestiaire, l'équipe d'entraîneurs et toute l'organisation ne font que me soutenir et me dire d'être agressif. »

 

Smith et Admon Gilder Jr, qui ont marqué respectivement sept et six points en première demie, ont fait de leur mieux pour maintenir le Surge à distance, mais les Sea Bears ont porté leur avance à 20 points à la pause.

 

Le joueur de Calgary Kylor Kelley, qui partage son temps de jeu avec Jordy Tshimanga en remplacement de Shittu, a été efficace dans le troisième quart. Le joueur de sept pieds a marqué quatre de ses six points dans le quart, y compris en réussissant un alley oop de Miller-Moore, mais a été forcé de sortir à une minute de la fin du quart avec une blessure à la cheville.

 

Kelley a également pris 10 rebonds, dont quatre sur la planche offensive, en un peu plus de 14 minutes avant de quitter le match.

 

Après la demie, Allen a inscrit son cinquième panier à trois points sur un dribble pour donner aux Sea Bears une avance de 22 points, leur plus grande avance à ce moment-là. Jelani Watson-Gayle, qui a terminé avec 16 points et quatre tirs de trois points, a réussi un de ses tirs de trois points à quelques secondes de la fin pour porter l'écart à 77-43 après trois quarts.

 

Winnipeg a pris une avance de 90-63 à l'approche du temps du pointage cible et après avoir manqué trois occasions de terminer le match avec un panier à trois points, Allen a converti des tirs en foulée sur deux possessions consécutives pour terminer le match.

 

Avec la victoire, les Sea Bears ont vengé une défaite de 19 points contre le Surge le mois dernier et ont pris 2,5 matchs d'avance sur Calgary pour la première place de la conférence de l'Ouest.

 

Calgary, quant à eux, reste en possession de la deuxième place de la conférence, mais n'a qu'un demi-match d'avance sur les Stingers d'Edmonton pour éviter une place en tournoi préliminaire dans les séries éliminatoires de la LECB.

 

Calgary et Winnipeg reprendront les hostilités pour la deuxième partie des matchs aller-retour jeudi soir au Centre WinSport.

 

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.

 

Une ligue créée par des Canadiens pour des Canadiens ayant comme mission de développer des joueurs, des entraineurs, des dirigeants sportifs et des arbitres canadiens, la LECB compte le pourcentage le plus élevé de joueurs canadiens de toutes les ligues professionnelles du pays, 71 % des joueurs de 2022 étant Canadiens. Les joueurs viennent de la NBA, de la NBA G League, des meilleures ligues professionnelles internationales, du programme de l'équipe nationale canadienne et des meilleurs programmes de la NCAA et de U SPORTS. Neuf joueurs sont passés de la LECB à la NBA suite à une saison de LECB et 28 joueurs de la LECB sont allés à des camps d’entrainement de la NBA G League en octobre. La saison de la LECB se déroule de mai à août. Plus d’information sur la LECB est disponible sur CEBL.ca et @cebleague sur Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook et YouTube.

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