Great news for the country, Victor Wembanyama is advancing but not losing his sense of competition. During a small press briefing from the French team in Nanterre, the 19-year-old phenomenon shared his desire to play in the 2023 World Cup with the Blues. First association with Rudy Gobert in perspective. Full of challenges and a lot of excitement.
Victor Wembanyama: “I have no desire to miss out on the World Cup at all”.
Journalist : “Whatever team selects you for the draft?” »
Victor Wembanyama: “That I don’t know. My desire is to be in the France team this summer in any case.
Zou, an innocuous press point of the French phenomenon, for a response full of spontaneity that some would have advised him to keep quiet. But now, Victor Wembanyama does not need to organize his schedule according to others. It’s up to others to organize their schedule around Wemby. This also applies to the franchise that will select him in the draft. If a projected 8th or 9th choice announces that they want to play a FIBA event the very summer of his arrival in the NBA, the GMs may prefer a player more ” available “. Par ” available “, means willing to lock themselves in a gym all summer and open their mouths when the bowl of protein approaches. For Victor Wembanyama, flirting is one-way. “Ah, you want to play with the France team this summer? No problem ! We can even wash your jersey and make you a tricolor dye. Someone gave you the Harry Potter game? No ? You want it ? “. We popularize, but that’s a bit like that we imagine the negotiations.
More than two years after their one-on-one, it’s finally time. Of August 25 to September 10, 2023, in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines, Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama will probably share the same racquet. What augur a tactical orgasm for Vincent Collet. The coach of the France team knows how to combine these two interior profiles. In Levallois, his pattern of play placed Ibrahima Fall Faye (then Anzejs Pasecniks) under the circle, in position 5 of support, very restricted in his movements. Victor Wembanyama orbits around this verticality, triggers at mid-distance, causes shifts and releases the ball at the pivot. There is even the possibility of a game in a triangle of hell that the other national selections will struggle to defend. In short, all that to say that if Victor Wembanyama comes to hit Team USA before playing his first NBA game – scenario made possible by this announcement – it will be necessary to cut a lot of trees so that this storytelling be immortalized on paper. We love the planet huh, but we prefer Victor.