2023-08-31 06:51:00
Here we are. Here we are plunged into one of our worst nightmares. A day of ranking matches, between the Finnish perfs, the Mexican perfs and the nurse’s perfs. In the middle of it all? France, which we hope will prove this afternoon against Iran (3:30 p.m.) that it has nothing to do in this drawer of world basketball.
We have absolutely nothing against the Iranians, we’ll arrest you right away. No more than against the Egyptians, the Chinese or the Venezuelans. It’s just that we have the impression… of not being in our place, even if the three group matches against Canada, Latvia and Lebanon would tend to prove the contrary.
After three consecutive medals in 2019, 2021 and 2022, it’s a big setback for French basketball, one year from the 2024 Paris Games, it should be remembered. We will have to bounce back, very quickly, and clearly the two classification matches against Iran this afternoon and against Côte d’Ivoire on Saturday morning are not part of the relaunch process.
No, here we are rather on a landing, the least brutal possible, because there seems to have been trouble during the flight. In the cabin, and in the aisles. Elijah Okobo who doesn’t want to play is perhaps the tip of the iceberg but we will be careful here not to carry out an investigation early in the morning, in short we are impatiently awaiting not this match but although these two matches are over, to move on to something else, sweeping the floor perhaps but, above all, thinking about tomorrow, even if, as the other said… tomorrow is a long way off.
See you at 3:30 p.m. for a wonderful clash between Rudy Gobert and Hamed Haddadi and to discover or rediscover the papatte of Mohammad Amini. Sorry, we’re maxed out.
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