Gran Canaria's Frenchmen stepped up
Gran Canaria qualified for the 2023 7DAYS EuroCup Semifinals by downing Paris Basketball 104-74 at home on Wednesday. It was Gran Canaria's third win against Paris in as many games this season and its French duo had to do a lot with it.
Damien Inglis, a EuroCup champion with AS Monaco in 2021, played one of his best games in the competition. He came off the bench to get a career-high 23 points on 11-of-14 two-point shooting. Inglis added 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 fouls drawn for a PÎR of 25. Inglis was perfect on 7 two-pointers in the first half, allowing Gran Canaria to get its first double-digit margin late in the second quarter.
Playmaker Andrew Albicy did a little bit of everything, finishing the game with 7 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn, good for a PIR of 20. Paris head coach Will Weaver praised both of them, Albicy in particular, after the game.
"Their Frenchmen [Inglis and Albicy] in particular were outstanding tonight. Andrew Albicy was dominant: defensively, he got two steals but he also forced offensive fouls. He didn't commit a single foul in the entire game, which is incredible," Weaver said. "He just has the best hands maybe in the continent, to be able to disrupt as much as he did and not have a single foul and create many disruptive plays as he did. So congrats to those Frenchmen and best of luck to Gran Canaria."