After the Mets last October, will ASVEL play the American dream? Tony Parker has revealed his club will be on a summer tour to face G League teams. What to shed some light on the nugget Zaccharie Risacher?
Could the Metropolitans 92 have started a trend? It’s not impossible given the latest statements from Tony Parker. In remarks reported by the newspaper Progress, the president of ASVEL claims to have accepted an offer from the G League to play matches on September 7 and 9 in Vegas. The goal? Offer greater exposure to Zaccharie Risacher, new nugget of tricolor basketball.
“Next season, the most important thing is Zaccharie Risacher. It will be at the heart of our strategy. We will build the team around him, Nando [De Colo, ndlr] et Joffrey [Lauverge, ndlr]. Zaccharie must explode. He is projected Top 3 in the draft. Why shouldn’t he be number 1? He has all the talent in the world and we are really going to push him.
That’s why we accepted the offer from the G League to do an American tour next summer and expose it as much as possible. We will go two weeks to the United States. We will start with a training camp in San Antonio and we will play two matches in Las Vegas after, on September 7 and 9. »
Two games in Vegas, a young Frenchman full of talent to put forward under the eyes of the American scouts, it still looks strangely like the plan put in place by the Mets last October, when Victor Wembanyama had conquered America in two games . Chance or coincidence, the two meetings had also taken place on the side of Las Vegas.
Son of former international Stéphane Risacher, Zaccharie is one of the great promises of French basketball. ESPN ranked him third in his Mock Draft for 2024 and the youngster still has the means to climb in the coming year. While waiting to see how he manages his two oppositions, the Malaga native will already be able to impress observers in the days to come since he is currently in Portland preparing for the Hoop Summit (April 8), a friendly match between the best youngsters Americans and a selection of young talents of all nationalities. He will notably face a certain Bronny James.
Text source: Le Progrès