The summer of 2021 will forever be etched in our fan memories. Why ? Because the flirtation between July and August will have offered us almost at the same time the NBA Finals, the Free Agency, the Olympic Games, the Draft and the Summer League. Are you serious? Oh yeah. The scars of this crazy period are still there, a year later, so much so that we decided, over a few days, to remind you of some of these still present memories. 2021 intravenously. Today ? We come back to this legendary action by Nicolas Batum, in the last seconds of an Olympic semi-final.
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It is August 5, 2021 and it is around 2 p.m., no nap today because for the past few weeks sleep has no longer had a place in our lives, neither day nor night. Even less so on this summer afternoon, since basketball France is playing neither more nor less than an Olympic semi-final against Slovenia, its somewhat scary strike force and its genius Luka Doncic. Luka who then never lost OF HIS LIFE with his senior selection, rather judge the ardor of the mission. But that day a man had one, on a mission, this man is Nicolas Batum and his mission was precisely to slow down that devil Luka. Two days earlier the captain of the Blues had started his day by extending with the Clippers and had finished it by beating Italy thanks to a tronpa match, and on this August 5 it is a much more historic step that will pass Batman with the EDF, a step he will remember all his life, a step we will remember all our lives.
Nicholas Batum. It’s the tweet. #TeamFranceBasket #ITAFRA #Tokyo2020 #Basketball pic.twitter.com/NebaAQhe4q
— France Basketball Teams (@FRABasketball) August 3, 2021
It’s around 4 p.m. This semi-final of the Games keeps all its promises because the two nations offer a huge match, and the end of the match will only be… immensely more so. Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Nando De Colo as accomplished leaders, Timothe Luwawu as a far too useful X factor, that’s for our Blues. In front ? Luka Doncic will end the meeting with a triple-double adorned with EIGHTEEN assists, two units from the Olympic record because the little one does not have time. But another man will therefore arise to make this August 5 a national holiday, and this man is Nicolas Batum.
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— Hornets FR ???? (@HornetsFR) August 5, 2021
Perfectly concluding a match in which he will have defended the iron with honor and bravery, Nico rises in the last seconds to offer us a snapshot that will make history, with this absolutely phenomenal counter on Klemen Prepelic, after a money time boiling like frying oil. The gesture is clear and pure, the gesture is perfect, even Nando De Colo does not realize that France has won as the moment seems suspended. France defeated the scarecrow after a tense afternoon, France are in the Final of the Games against Team USA21 years after Sydney, and Nicolas Batum enters definitively into the History of France as the victorious general of a great battle.
An imperishable memory, the Olympic and patriotic emotions superimposed on a stress amplified by the fatigue of a deadly summer for the organisms. Let it be said, we will always remember it. All. Our. Life. And we’ll talk to our kids about it, and to tell you the truth, it’s even already been done.
Hop, to relive this crazy moment it’s right here:
HISTORY! The French team beats Slovenia 90-89 and qualifies for the final of the Olympic Games, these Blues are HUGE
Olympic Games 2021: France – Slovenia, the replay of the match commented live on TrashTalk
Notes from France – Slovenia: Evan Fournier is waiting for you for the Final, and don’t talk to him about riding
Nicolas Batum posed the BIGGEST counter in the history of France: chase-down block at the buzzer, it goes straight to the Pantheon