It was therefore not Victor Wembanyama’s last match before the big jump over the Atlantic. The French basketball prodigy, future NBA player, will evolve at least three more times on the French courts. His team, the Mets 92, disposed of Cholet (81-69) in the decisive support match of the quarter-finals, Thursday evening in Levallois-Perret.
Boulogne-Levallois will find Asvel in the semi-finals, triple champion of France in title that left the very probable future player of San Antonio (19 years old) last summer to join a project more able according to him to prepare his entered the NBA.
The reunion is scheduled for Sunday in the Hauts-de-Seine, before a second meeting still at home but relocated to Bercy, where the Mets had already received Bourg-en-Bresse on May 7 (93-82). The series, best of five games, therefore promises at least three more games for “Wemby” on his home soil.
The Mets 92 did not really struggle Thursday, to the great satisfaction of its coach Vincent Collet. “Things made me proud, like the defensive intensity in the first half and especially the fact of wasting the ball more like in the first two games. Victor [Wembanyama] was as such much more serious in the game since he has two lost balls against 12-13 in the first two games, ”commented the technician.
19 points for “Wemby”
Wembanyama scored zero in the final quarter, where he protected the racket more and acted as a deterrent. He still finished as his team’s top scorer (19 points, with 9 rebounds and 2 blocks).