Despite a last quarter hour last quarter, Asvel suffered their fifth defeat in a row in Euroleague basketball, beaten on Friday at home during the 26th day by Real Madrid (75-71), candidate for the title.
The Villeurbannais, who no longer have any realistic hope of participating in the play-offs, are five victories behind the eighth and last qualifier, with eight successes for 18 defeats.
Counting up to 17 lengths behind in the middle of the third quarter on the people of Madrid (2nd, 18/7), they picked up two points at the start of the last quarter (62-64, 33rd), then to five to one little more than 2 min 30 sec from the siren (67-72).
But they showed too much clumsiness, as in the whole match (52% from two points, 15% behind the arc), to pass in front of Fabien Causeur’s partners (14 pts, 4 rebounds and 5 fouls caused in 21 mins).