2023-06-22 17:48:00
Let’s be honest, we needed to be reassured about the level of this French team. Let’s be very honest, Jean-Aimé Toupane’s daughters did much more than reassure us by managing Montenegro like bosses. Go hop, in half!
Very quickly we understood. Belgium had hit very hard by crushing Serbia (+40 with a triple-double from Emma Meeseman)? The French had apparently decided to do the same. Aggressiveness in defense, a ball that spins well in attack, girls who (finally) project themselves forward and in rhythm, and inevitably everything is better. Marine Fauthoux starts her Euro a week late, Iliana Rupert is out for this quarter-final but Sandrine Gruda and Marieme Badiane are dirty, and when Alexia Chartereau slams space crosses and Leila Lacan signs her entry with two consecutive baskets, we say to ourselves that the afternoon promises to be cool.
And coolos the afternoon will be.
20 points and 7 rebounds for Badou, 8 points and 5 assists at 100% shooting for rookie Lacan, 15/3/6/2 for Marine Fauthoux and 18 points at 8/11 for Sandrine Gruda, a magic square which above all symbolizes a victory at 11, a real beating – 90-46 – obtained by attacking the opponent and playing a real fast and collective basketball. A prestigious victory but above all the trigger that we expected at this stage of the competition, and a level that we will have to have… Saturday against a Belgium in full swing. But for the moment we applaud, with both hands and with a smile. Well done ladies, rest and in two days we’ll get back to it. By then? We have a Draft to manage, what a great day.
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