May 26, 2013
Regular Season Game 14 - January 31, 2008 CET: 20:30 Local time: 20:30 - MEDIOLANUM FORUM
AJ Milano 63 - 83 Le Mans

Records

Ave.   Ave.
0-0 Final Four 0-0
0-0 Playoffs 0-0
0-0 Top 16 0-0
3-10 Regular Season 1-12
3-10 Overall 1-12

Referees

Crew Chief
BACHAR, SHMUEL, Israel
Referee
KOLAR, ROMAN, Slovenia
Umpire
ANASTOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS, Greece

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
73.2 Points 73.2
30.8 Rebounds 29.4
9.3 O. Rebounds 9.2
21.5 D. Rebounds 20.2
11.4 Assists 16.6
9.7 Steals 7.7
1.8 Blocks 2.8
12.0 Turnovers 13.2
52.5 % 2PT 52.7 %
31.6 % 3PT 32.2 %
71.0 % FT 64.5 %
76.5 Index 75.3
Team Stats - AJ Milano
Team Stats - Le Mans

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
13.9 / VUKCEVIC, DUSAN Points 14.2 / CLANCY, SAMUEL
9.2 / WATSON, TRAVIS Rebounds 7.3 / CLANCY, SAMUEL
3.4 / WATSON, TRAVIS OR 2.9 / CLANCY, SAMUEL
5.8 / WATSON, TRAVIS DR 4.4 / CLANCY, SAMUEL
3.1 / VUKCEVIC, DUSAN Assists 4.1 / Limonad
1.5 / WATSON, TRAVIS Steals 1.3 / BOKOLO, YANNICK
0.8 / SESAY, ANSU Blocks 1.0 / Koffi
2.0 / WATSON, TRAVIS Turnovers 1.8 / RICCI, PHILIP
66.7 % / GIOVACCHINI, A 2PT 60.0 % / Koffi
36.4 % / SESAY, ANSU 3PT 45.5 % / Limonad
100.0 % / GIOVACCHINI, A FT 100.0 % / BOGAVAC, NEBOJSA
16.8 / WATSON, TRAVIS Index 16.5 / CLANCY, SAMUEL
Team Roster - AJ Milano
Team Roster - Le Mans

THE TAKE

Armani Jeans Milano and Le Mans Sarthe Basket will bid farewell to the Euroleague season when they wrap up their participation on Thursday in Italy. Le Mans is coming off its first win of the season last week and will look to add another one, while Milano seeks its fourth win of the season. The hosts defeated Le Mans 63-71 earlier this season in France behind a fine performance from Danilo Gallinari, who went for 15 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Raviv Limonad shined for Le Mans that night with 20 points and 5 assists. Both those players have been hot recently, with the teenage Gallinari averaing 23.5 points on strong shooting in the last two games, while Limonad is coming off a 20-point, 9-assist game last week. They could also be involved in two of the key matchups this week. Gallinari will face another rising star, Nicolas Batum, while the sweet-shooting Dusan Vukcevic is likely to challenge Limonad. Another important duel features the Euroleague’s No. 2 rebounder this season, Travis Watson of Milano, going against Phil Ricci, who together with Alain Koffi will see extended minutes as Sam Clancy is out with a sprained ankle. Although both teams will try to finish with a win, expect both coaches to also spread the minutes among their reserves for a game that is essentially for protocol only.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Euroleague.net

Quotes Head Coaches

CAJA, ATTILIO
AJ Milano
"We want to finish in the best way our experience in this Euroleague. We will miss Danilo [Gallinari] for sure, but we'll try to make our best effort to compensate this factor. Le Mans is a good team which plays with great athleticism and physical skills. So, we have to beat them playing good basketball as a team to beat their qualities."
COLLET, VINCENT
Le Mans
"Last week against Cibona, we finally succeeded in winning one Euroleague game this season. We’ll try to go on the same way in Milano to end well this season. It will be really difficult because we’re gonna play without our center Sam Clancy, who was really efficient in the Euroleague."

Players

SHAW, CASEY
AJ Milano
"It will be a strange game against Le Mans, because we are both out of the qualification for the Top 16. We want to win, anyway. They have a team with good athletes and we have to limit them for all the 40 minutes to win the contest."
KOFFI, ALAIN
Le Mans
"We have a monkey off our back with victory against Cibona. We felt a little better after this game. We deserved to win a least one game and maybe a second one in Milano even if it will be tough without Sam. We are disappointed because we could have won more games, but we wasted a lot of end of games. That’s really a pity."
Phil Ricci - Le Mans In a game for pride between two already-eliminated teams, Le Mans kept proving it might have done better with better luck as it outgunned Armani Jeans Milano 63-83 on the road in Group B. The game ended the Euroleague seasons for both teams with Milano in seventh place at 3-11 and Le Mans in eighth at 2-12. Luka Bogdanovic led five double-figure scorers for Le Mans with 17 points, Phil Ricci added 16, Raviv Limonad and Alain Koffi 13 each, and Nicolas Batum 12 for the winners. Milano, playing without star youngster Danilo Gallinari, who was injured, got 18 points and 16 rebounds from Travis Watson. Stefano Gentile and Dusan Vukcevic chipped in 12 points each and Ansu Sesay 11 for Milano.

Vukcevic opened the game with twin three-pointers that gave Milano an early 6-2 lead that it nursed behind points from Watson and Mindaugas Katelynas to lead 14-9. Bogdanovic and Nebojsa Bogavac rallied Le Mans with triples to within 18-16 at the end of one quarter.

Travis Watson - AJ Milano Milano stretched its lead again to 22-16 on baskets by Casey Shaw and Ansu Sesay early in the second quarter, but Le Mans soon began its takeover with defense. On the other end, Limond, Koffi, Bogdanovic, Jeremy Leloup and Batum in turn filled up a 0-13 run. After Sesay got a couple free throws, it continued with Leloup and Antoine Diot extending the lead to 24-33 before Bogdanovic's triple sparked a 0-7 finishing run good for a 28-42 Le Mans lead at halftime.

Despite Watson's efforts for Milano, the trend continued after the half with Batum and Ricci pushing the lead to 33-49 for Le Mans. Batum and Bogdanovic's back-to-back triples later in the third quarter made it 37-56, putting the handwriting on the wall for a 48-65 difference after three quarters.

Nothing about the fourth quarter changed things, as Le Mans was content to trade baskets and Milano could not summon the defense necessary to rally for its fans. The difference hovered around 20 points the whole time and settled there, at 63-83, when the buzzer sounded to end both teams' Euroleague seasons.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Euroleague.net
Referees: BACHAR, SHMUEL (ISR), KOLAR, ROMAN (SLO), ANASTOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS (GRE)
Attendance: 1500
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Le Mans16272218
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Le Mans16436583
Head coach: CAJA, ATTILIO
AJ Milano
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
5 SESAY, ANSU 20:57 11 3/8 1/2 2/2 2 3 5     1 1   1 1 10
10 ARADORI, PIETRO 23:41   0/3 0/3     1 1 2 1 2   2 3 1 -8
11 SHAW, CASEY 19:08 5 2/4   1/2 4 2 6   1 3       3 9
12 BOOKER, MELVIN 23:39   0/3 0/5   1   1 2 3 1     4 1 -6
13 WATSON, TRAVIS 28:27 18 7/12 1/1 1/4 9 7 16 1 7 4 2 1 3 5 33
14 VUKCEVIC, DUSAN 17:55 12 0/3 3/4 3/3       2   3   1   1 7
15 KATELYNAS, MINDAUGAS 18:49 2 1/4     2 3 5 1 2 1       2 8
16 GENTILE, STEFANO 13:24 12 3/3 1/3 3/4   1 1   1 1     5 3 8
17 MARELLI, DAVIDE 3:36                              
18 GIOVACCHINI, ANTHONY 30:24 3 0/5 0/2 3/4 1 2 3 1 1 3     3 4 -2
Team                                
Totals 200:00 63 16/45 6/20 13/19 19 19 38 9 16 19 3 4 19 21 59
35.6% 30% 68.4%
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Head coach: COLLET, VINCENT
Le Mans
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
4 BOGAVAC, NEBOJSA 21:14 5 1/2 1/4     3 3 1 3 1       2 9
5 BATUM, NICOLAS 33:10 12 2/6 1/3 5/6 1 6 7 3 3 4 3 2 2 5 18
6 DIOT, ANTOINE 24:50 2 1/2     1 2 3 5 3 4     2 1 7
7 KOFFI, ALAIN 15:52 13 5/5   3/3 1 3 4   1 1     4 2 15
8 LIMONAD, RAVIV 25:24 13 3/5 1/2 4/4   2 2 5 2 3     3 5 18
9 BOKOLO, YANNICK 15:19     0/1         2 2 2     1 1 1
10 LELOUP, JEREMY 14:13 5 1/1 1/1     1 1       1   5   2
11 BOGDANOVIC, LUKA 29:58 17 1/3 5/7     2 2     1     1   13
13 RICCI, PHIL 18:40 16 5/7 1/2 3/5   4 4   2     1 3 3 16
17 ALLERME, CLEMENT 1:20   0/1             1 1         -1
Team                                
Totals 200:00 83 19/32 10/20 15/18 3 23 26 16 17 17 4 3 21 19 98
59.4% 50% 83.3%
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Head Coaches

CAJA, ATTILIO
AJ Milano
"We are disappointed because without Danilo for the whole game and Vukcevic in the second half, we were not in a good condition to play this game. We wanted to finish the Euroleague in another way, but we have a very bad loss at the end. The great athletic skills of Le Mans made all the difference tonight. Vukcevic had some troubles with his back in the warm up before the third quarter, we'll have to understand how important is this injury."
COLLET, VINCENT
Le Mans
"We are happy for this victory, because we had some losses for a few points in this Euroleague season and so we are glad to back in Le Mans with our first victory away. Even if it was not important for the standings, we used this game as a great practice for us, and I really like the spirit of my team."

Players

ARADORI, PIETRO
AJ Milano
"That's a pity to finish our competition with a defeat like this, but we didn't play this game with intensity. We had a good start, but then we had a lot of troubles in the second quarter and then we got mentally out of the game. Batum? We faced each other in the young national teams, he's a very good talent."
DIOT, ANTOINE
Le Mans
"It was important for us to come back home with this victory, which is the first one of the season away. We feel very good after this success, because I think that we have a project in this team with many young players to be back again in the Euroleague and be more competitive in the next seasons."
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