Limoges Basketball 2023-24 Season: Reviving the Historic Club’s Success & Overcoming Challenges

2023-09-11 10:47:00

A few weeks before the resumption of the French Basketball Championship, here is an overview of the 18 teams who will compete during the 2023-24 season. On today’s menu, CSP Limoges. The “Forever the first” of French basketball have one goal: to play basketball, and avoid another nightmare season.

How to describe Limoges? It is certainly a historic club, perhaps THE most emblematic club in the French basketball championship. The first French club to win the “real” European Cup (current EuroLeague), Cercle Saint-Pierre laid many of the first stones in the history of the hexagonal orange ball. However, on the Limoges side, last season… nothing ended as planned. Avalanche of defeats in the championship at the end of the season, catastrophic results in the Basketball Champions League.

Worse, significant hole in the club’s finances… very good at the dawn of a three-down season. It was therefore very important to change everything (or almost), not only to reassure yourself but also to reassure the entire ecosystem around the club: sponsors, media, supporters. A healthy foundation for healthy results, in short.

Last season’s results

French Championship: 14th Coupe de France: round of 16, defeat once morest JL Bourg Basketball Champions League: 4th in group during the Top 16

Departures :

Desi Rodriguez (Nanterre) Bryce Jones (Cluj) Mohamed Sidibe (Andrézieux) Kenny Kadji (without club) Tomas Kyzlink (without club) Hugo Desseignet (Loon-Plage) Jayvon Graves (Ludwigsbourg) Wilfried Yeguete (Le Mans) Marek Klassen (Karditsa) Massimo Cancellieri (coach, Strasbourg)

Arrivals

Kameron McGusty (Plaisance) Kristian Doolittle (Bayamon) Lucas Beaufort (Strasburg) Nemanja Nedadic (Rio Breogan) Alexandre Chassang (JL Bourg)

The full squad (known to date) for the 2023-24 season:

Leaders: Tyree Appleby Backs: Kameron McGusty, Lucas Beaufort, Nicolas Lang, Lucas Ugolin Wings: Mathieu Wojciechowski, Nemanja Nedadic Power Forwards: Kristian Doolittle Pivots: Oluwasimisola Shittu, Alexandre Chassang

The player to watch: Nicolas Lang

French international, very friendly at the press conference, Nicolas Lang is one of the three (only, in fact) players retained by the CSP during the off-season, with Mathieu Wojciechowski and Lucas Ugolin. We quickly go through one for the Mat’, the Woj from Limousin, an ultra dynamic soldier with a sometimes strong character (according to our editorial sources whose initials are GM). Back to Mr. Lang. This season, the Alsatian fullback will undoubtedly be one of the strong elements of the game and the locker room.

A refurbished workforce means a workforce that will need benchmarks. And to lead the group, nothing better than a man of experience who experienced the previous rather calamitous year to create momentum and give direction. In the game, Nicolas Lang averaged 13.1 points last year, so it is also a statistical assurance that will have its say on the floor. A sort of barometer for the Limougauds game. And a relay from the new coach Ilias Kantzouris.

Upcoming competitions in 2023-24:

French Championship Coupe de France

The important dates of the first part of the season: (More classic with Pau, relou)

Limoges – Monaco (French Championship), September 16 Limoges – Paris (French Championship), September 30 Limoges – ASVEL (French Championship), November 4

Effective source: BasketEurope

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