May 22, 2013
Regular Season Game 2 - November 01, 2007 CET: 20:30 Local time: 20:30 - ANTARES
Le Mans 66 - 69 Aris TT Bank

Records

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

Referees

Crew Chief
SUDEK, PETR, Slovakia
Referee
PEREZ PIZARRO, EMILIO, Spain
Umpire
BULTO, VICENTE, Spain

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
71.0 Points 87.0
36.0 Rebounds 28.0
14.0 O. Rebounds 12.0
22.0 D. Rebounds 16.0
16.0 Assists 9.0
15.0 Steals 9.0
4.0 Blocks 6.0
18.0 Turnovers 15.0
45.7 % 2PT 51.3 %
29.4 % 3PT 50.0 %
77.8 % FT 76.3 %
76.0 Index 87.0
Team Stats - Le Mans
Team Stats - Aris TT Bank

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
20.0 / CLANCY, SAMUEL Points 20.0 / MASSEY, JEREMIAH
11.0 / Koffi Rebounds 8.0 / MASSEY, JEREMIAH
5.0 / Koffi OR 5.0 / MASSEY, JEREMIAH
6.0 / Koffi DR 3.0 / MOTTOLA, HANNO
5.0 / Limonad Assists 3.0 / KALAITZIS, GEORGIOS
6.0 / BATUM, NICOLAS Steals 3.0 / TERRY, REYSHAWN
2.0 / Koffi Blocks 2.0 / KALAITZIS, GEORGIOS
4.0 / Limonad Turnovers 4.0 / TSALDARIS, DIMITRIOS
75.0 % / RICCI, PHILIP 2PT 100.0 % / KALAITZIS, GEORGIOS
33.3 % / Bogdanovic 3PT 100.0 % / TSALDARIS, DIMITRIOS
100.0 % / BOGAVAC, NEBOJSA FT 100.0 % / TERRY, REYSHAWN
19.0 / CLANCY, SAMUEL Index 23.0 / MASSEY, JEREMIAH
Team Roster - Le Mans
Team Roster - Aris TT Bank

THE TAKE

Two teams involved in opening-game thrillers meet in Week 2 when Le Mans Sarthe Basket hosts Aris TT Bank in a Group B encounter on Thursday. Le Mans was on the wrong side of a 74-71 loss at Maccabi Elite in Tel Aviv, while Aris stormed back in the fourth quarter to beat Unicaja 87-83 at home in Thessaloniki, Greece. Despite the defeat, Le Mans head coach Vincent Collet can take many positives from his team's performance against Maccabi. Sam Clancy showed himself to be a serious low-post scorer, Nicolas Batum displayed a fine all-around game and Nebojsa Bogavac's hustle paid off in many ways. Meanwhile, Aris stayed true to its warrior reputation by turning an 8-point deficit in the fourth quarter into a win. Always-productive Jeremiah Massey was joined by newcomer Reyshawn Terry, who came off the bench for 18 points, including an 11-for-11 showing from the free-throw line. This game will mark the first-ever meeting between the sides. Aris may have a slight advantage in terms of familiarity with the opponent, since head coach Gordon Herbert spent the previous three seasons working in France. The hosts have a deep backcourt, in which Collet will let the players with the hot hands run. Yannick Bokolo and Batum started at guard, but both Bogavac and Raviv Limonad saw extended playing time later on. Aris captain Terrel Castle is his team's leader and top playmaker, with Bracey Wright, Georgios Kalaitzis and Savvas Iliadis filling out the guard rotation. Power forward Massey and small forward Dimitrios Karadolamis started last week with Terry playing big minutes off the bench, while Hanno Mottola and Lazaros Agadakos shared time at center. For Le Mans, Luka Bogdanovic and Clancy start, with Batum also spending time at small forward, while Alain Koffi and Philip Ricci form a physical center tandem. Three matchups stand out in the game as each team looks to get a leg up in the early season race for wins. Both teams' power forwards proved to be their top scorers last week and the battle between Clancy and Massey will affect their entire teams. Meanwhile Batum and Terry are young players still coming into their own, one of whom could prove to be this game's x-factor. Starting point guards Bokolo and Castle were less then their best last week. If one of them can dominate his position, that could also turn the tide in this game. Also noteworthy will be seeing if Aris can match last week's hot shooting (50% 3FG) or if Le Mans can improve on its own (29.4% 3FG). Either way, this game has all the makings of a close encounter worth watching till the very end.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Euroleague.net - Christos Lazarou, Thessaloniki

Quotes Head Coaches

COLLET, VINCENT
Le Mans
"We'll play Aris for this first home game of the Euroleague season and it's going to be very complicated. This team is very physical and has a very aggressive defense based on very mobile power forwards and centers, Massey and Terry especially. Their shooters, Tsaldaris and Wright, are really dangerous on offense, too. After our first game, in which we succeeded in challenging Maccabi but could not achieve the victory at the end, we absolutely have to step forward to bring back an important win home."
HERBERT, GORDON
Aris TT Bank
"I have known Le Mans pretty well since last year. They have retained their French core, changing only their foreigners. It's a very young and athletic team which scores mainly in transition. We have to focus on defense and sew up the game under the basket during the whole game. My team should not permit fastbreaks and easy baskets. Our tactics remain the same. The team takes one game at a time. This match is not more important than the previous one nor less important than the next one. It's time to bounce back from the loss against Olympiacos in our domestic league and go all out for our first European win on the road for this year."

Players

BOGAVAC, NEBOJSA
Le Mans
"Aris has a lot of qualities. They proved so by beating Unicaja in their first game at home. It will be a tough game because they combine a big defense with an offense on the same level. If we play at the level we reached against Maccabi, I'm sure we can hope to win. We need our crowd to be behind us and, to sum up, we need the win!"
KALAITZIS, GEORGIOS
Aris TT Bank
"Both Aris and Le Mans will fight for the qualification till the last game. Every team tries to protect its home advantage and win a pair of games on the road to reach the top spots of the group. Generally, Le Mans is a team of our range. They are really strong in defense while they focus on offensive transition, running the court well. Don't forget that they were really close to overmatch Maccabi in Tel Aviv. We should be more effective defensively and control the tempo of the game. Our intention is to take a step closer to the Top 16."
Reyshawn Terry - Aris TT BankA defensive battle of wills ended with Aris TT Bank still undefeated and sharing first place in Group B after outlasting host Le Mans Sarthe Basket 66-69 in France on Thursday. Aris raised its record to 2-0 and ties Lietuvos Rytas for first place in the group, while Le Mans fell to 0-2 by a grand total of six points in two games. Aris dictaded a slow tempo throughout the game and built a double-digit lead at halftime. Le Mans chipped away until tying in the last quarter but could never turn the corner against the take-no-prisoners Aris defense. Reyshawn Terry led the winners with 16 points, while Bracey Wright used a perfect 10-for-10 accuracy from the foul line to reach 15 and Hanno Mottola added 11. Luka Bogdanovic paced Le Mans with 18 points and 8 rebounds. Nicolas Batum added 13 points, Sam Clancy 12 and Raviv Limonad 11.

Mottola and Jeremiah Massey went inside to give Aris an early 0-4 advantage as Le Mans suffered misses until Antoine Diot fed Clancy for an easy dunk. Dimitrios Tsaldaris answered for Aris with the game's first triple at 3-7. Batum sparked Le Mans now with a fastbreak alley-oop slam then scored in the lane to set up Clancy's go-ahead hook at 8-7. Wright's first free throws got the lead back for Aris, but in response, Bogdanovic rained a triple on the shot-clock buzzer for Le Mans. Batum came up with a big block that led to Phil Ricci making 1 of 2 free throws for a 12-9 Le Mans lead, but Aris quickly regained the advantage as Terrell Castle went backdoor and Terry hit free throws. Another lead change ensued as Bogdanovic hit his second triple and Yannick Bokolo drove for a basket. Kalaitzis got the triple back for Aris, but Batum stuffed a rebound to keep Le Mans up 19-16 after 10 minutes.

Yannick Bokolo - Le Mans SartheWright got Aris started with the first basket of the second quarter and soon added free throws to open the door for Giorgios Kalaitzis to claim the lead at 21-23 with a triple for the visitors. Mottola added free throws to that, and despite Ricci's post-up shot to make it 23-25, the Aris defense was starting to take Le Mans out of the game. Wright rained the next shot from way downtown and Mottola copied him from the wing to mak it 23-31 before a dry spell seized both teams. Wright and Lazaros Agadakos added 3 free throws to the Aris lead before Clancy dunked to save Le Mans. Aris got its biggest lead, however, as Castle fired a triple from the corner and Terry dunked on the break to set the scoreboard at 27-39 for halftime.

The Le Mans comeback started with Bogdanovic scoring on an offensive rebound to start the second half and Bokolo twisting for his own basket. Limonad came on and sparked the hosts by feeding Bogdanovic going back-door and then stealing and laying up himself at 35-42. Mottola scored from the post for Aris before Bogdanovic buried a new triple and then dunked off a steal to make it 40-44. Castle hit for Aris, but now it was Clancy scoring twice in a row for Le Mans, his tip-in making it 44-48. Aris stayed a step ahead alwasy, with Wright and Terry answering free throws by Batum and Limonad before the latter finished the quarter with a drive to leave a close 49-52 scoreboard after 30 minutes.

Hanno Mottola - Aris TT BankClancy got Le Mans as close as it had come in a long time with a bucket to start the final quarter, but missed the game-tying free throw attempt. Limonad soon made sure, however, with a triple to even the score at 54-54, but Terry didn't let Le Mans take the lead as he hung in the air for a layup-plus-free throw to restor the Aris advantage. The visitors' lock-down defense allowed only a couple free throws over the next minutes, but neither could Aris score itself, leaving a 56-59 scoreboard going into the last 5 minutes. Alain Koffi broke the spell with a basket in close that made it 58-59, but next, Wright got back to the line for his seventh and eighth perfect free throws of the night. Batum matched him for Le Mans before Terry landed a back-breaking triple at 60-64 with 3 minutes left. Two times after that, Limonad cut the difference to a single basket, but when Bogdanovic tried a go-ahead triple entering the final minute, the rebound went to Terry, who got hurt on a foul. Kalaitzis took his free throws, hitting 1 of 2, before Le Mans looked one last time to break through the Aris defense. Limonad got close, but his inside pass became a turnover and Le Mans ended up fouling the wrong guy, Wright, whose last perfect free throws sealed his team's place at the top of Group B for at least another week.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Euroleague.net
Referees: SUDEK, PETR (SVK), PEREZ PIZARRO, EMILIO (ESP), BULTO, VICENTE (ESP)
Attendance: 4700
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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 7:58     0/1     1 1                
5 BATUM, NICOLAS 35:26 13 5/7 0/1 3/4 1 4 5 2 1 1     2 5 19
6 DIOT, ANTOINE 17:57 1   0/1 1/2   1 1 4   4     4 1 -3
7 KOFFI, ALAIN 16:46 2 1/3   0/2 2 5 7       1   4 2 4
8 LIMONAD, RAVIV 23:20 11 2/4 1/3 4/4 1 1 2 4 1 2     3 2 11
9 BOKOLO, YANNICK 19:54 6 3/4 0/2           1 4     3 5 2
10 LELOUP, JEREMY DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 BOGDANOVIC, LUKA 33:08 18 4/8 3/8 1/2 3 5 8 3 1 1     2 1 18
13 RICCI, PHIL 9:47 3 1/2   1/2 1 1 2   1       2 3 5
15 CLANCY, SAM 35:44 12 6/12   0/1 2 5 7 2   2 2   2 2 14
Team                                
Totals 200:00 66 22/40 4/16 10/17 10 23 33 15 5 14 3 0 22 21 70
55% 25% 58.8%
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: HERBERT, GORDON
Aris TT Bank
# 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 CASTLE, TERREL 24:02 7 2/2 1/3   1 1 2 1 1 3     2 1 5
5 TERRY, REYSHAWN 25:12 16 3/5 1/2 7/7   5 5 1 3 4   1 3 6 20
7 SERAPINAS, SIMONAS 3:31     0/1                   2   -3
8 WRIGHT, BRACEY 34:22 15 1/6 1/4 10/10   2 2 3 1 1       6 18
9 KALAITZIS, GEORGIOS 16:49 7   2/2 1/2   2 2 3   1     2   8
10 ILIADIS, SAVVAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 MOTTOLA, HANNO 26:16 11 3/9 1/3 2/2   4 4     1   1 5 2 2
14 MASSEY, JEREMIAH 29:32 7 3/6 0/1 1/1 2 5 7 1   1     2 3 11
15 AGADAKOS, LAZAROS 14:39 1     1/2 2 2 4   1 1     3 1 2
16 TSALDARIS, DIMITRIOS 25:37 5 1/3 1/2   1 2 3 1 2 1   1 2 3 7
17 PANTELIADIS, SPYRIDON DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
19 TSAIRELIS, MICHALIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team                     1         -1
Totals 200:00 69 13/31 7/18 22/24 6 23 29 10 8 14 0 3 21 22 69
41.9% 38.9% 91.7%
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Head Coaches

COLLET, VINCENT
Le Mans
"We are dissapointed because it was our first game home. Our defense was bad in the second quarter. It was easy for Aris to keep on leading. In the second half, we were more agressive on defense, especially close in the paint. At this time, we did what we wanted to do. We produced good shots, produced free throws but unfortunatelly, we missed them. Mottola and Terry succeeded in making big shots, and at the end, we were at least close enough that we could take the last shot. Aris is a good candidate for the Top 16."
HERBERT, GORDON
Aris TT Bank
"We played a good first half, especially in the second quarter. Both teams played hard. We never gave them the opportunity to lead in the game. The Le Mans defense gave us trouble in second half, though. It was nice for me to come back in France. I have a lot of respect for Le Mans and how it develops young players."

Players

CLANCY, SAM
Le Mans
"We played good in the second half, but they made big shots and we didn't. The key of the match is like always for us; we have to play better in the last five minutes. We have to play hard and keep our minds clear."
TERRY, REYSHAWN
Aris TT Bank
"It was a great match, another win in the Euroleague. We controlled the match exactly like our coach asked us to do. It's a big victory for us."
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