2023-08-09 21:21:00
Several months after the disappointment of a failed climb, Orléans smiled again. The cure ? Devilishly more efficient than a drive by Jérémy Leloup: a victory for the French team – tranquilou-bilou – ahead of the Lithuanian ogre.
The boxscore is HERE!
We’re holding something here.
Something very solid. A sort of culmination of the last major international windows. And by “large international windows”, we are not talking about Louis Labeyrie’s 3-pointers in the middle of February, at +34 against Andriy Pyatov’s Estonia. No, Vincent Collet has something between his executives. The contribution of Sylvain Francisco, unquantifiable, player of instinct and chills, was made evident in the second period. The new Munich leader did not plant 20 points, but still stood out with this feeling of general excitement at each of his dribbles posed: what will happen? The Allen Iverson of Créteil.
So of course, from a collective point of view, there is still work to be done. The rebounds escape the tricolor hands. Serenity is not established throughout the meeting. There remains a possible window of « choke », and the “brilliance” actions are still counted over a hundred seconds. But that’s normal. It’s preparation, and it was much less reassuring last year at the same time (August 12, 2022), when the Blues only outclassed Italy by a small point, with a content well below expectations – altogether logical after winning a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. There, with the return of a nando de colo still inspired “despite” its 36 springs, the team seems to be well fueled in all positions. Enough to give rise to sequences… come on, Spurs basketball ? What we could vibrate before half-time. A treat for purists, but also for those who eat like dirt and stick their boogers above the bed. Yeah, when it plays like that, the 10,122 spectators in Orléans get their money’s worth.
But what is this team? ????#TeamFranceBasket | #PassionatelyBlue | #FIBAWC | #FALLOUT pic.twitter.com/1nNqXWwn21
– French basketball teams (@FRABasketball) August 9, 2023
Three games. There are only three games left for the Blues before playing for something other than butter: a trip to Lithuania, a second to Tokyo to face Japan, then a last game against Australia, still in Tokyo, just to acclimatize to the Pacific air.
The highlights of the meeting: the Guerschon Yabusele – Rudy Gobert, Sylvain Francisco tandem, the state of form of Nando De Colo, the importance of Nico Batum in the French system, the “windmill” dunk of Yoan Makoundou in counter-attack, the audacity of Elie Okobo in FIBA format, the collective
Points to work on: securing the rebound, Evan Fournier did not play because he slightly sprained his ankle (rhythm problem?)
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