Throughout this month of August tinged with blue, white and red, we have the chance to follow the backstage of The french team in a mini-series called “Daily”, and whose eighth episode “Warm-up” was recently released. On the menu today? Rudy’s anklets and Vavane’s headphones, if we promise you.
We don’t know what level you play – or if you play at all – but it’s a safe bet that your club warm-up is closer to the traveling circus, where failed alley-oop attempts accumulate between leaders of 1m53 and moves not at all controlled, only a real way to prepare for a match. Well, you can imagine that it would be inappropriate for professionals, moreover our representatives on the international scene, to do the same thing just before an Olympic Games France – USA final. This is precisely the reason why the pre-match of our French is dissected in “Warm-up”, eighth episode of the mini-series “Quotidien” which allows us to follow the Blues from the inside until the end of the EuroBasket. Moreover, from the start of the video capsule of almost three minutes, it is Evan who is responsible for explaining to us how this moment is of real importance in the eyes of the players, in particular through a very specific ritual repeated before each meeting, commonly called “routine”:
“The routine, I would say it’s a way to gain confidence and get going physically but also psychologically. We do things to reassure ourselves, things that make us feel good. –Evan Fournier
So it’s the shots of the logo that do Isaïa Cordinier good? Very well we remember but in this case that he does not hesitate to do good in match. Um yeah not sure about the last sentence actually. But to come back to what Vavane says, we feel the importance of this somewhat sacred moment to arrive in the best possible mood from the start of the match. An essential step, which the Knicks player also associates with the staff whose importance is multiplied to put the boys in optimal conditions:
“There is Theo Welsh [intendant, ndlr] who defends on me during my 15 minutes of basketball, since I like having someone in front of me when I train. I don’t necessarily like to shoot on empty and it allows me to visualize what the defense will do. Then, as we get along a lot of times, he puts me in a tangle and that also allows me to get into a certain physicality. –Evan Fournier
Not many different interlocutors in this episode where only Rudy Gobert will also take the floor to detail for us more personally what his warm-up is made up of. We will just note that when the Gobe explains that some like to have peace in these moments, Evan fully assumes that he is ready to start those who make him remove his headphones. Nice atmosphere, would we be on the start of a politico-media scandal in Blues? We will of course keep you informed of the progress of the investigation. In the meantime, we leave you with the sweet words of Rudy, who insists on the importance of proprioception, because we can never repeat it enough:
“There are a lot of exercises you can do but for me the most important thing is proprioception. I put myself on one foot on an ultra reactive material, which will create a lot of instability. And in fact it really helps my body, my nervous system, my brain to react quickly. When you step on one foot or sprain yourself, the brain is used to reacting much faster. So it already reduces the chances of you getting sprains, but also the severity of the sprains. – Rudy Gobert
We will therefore retain two messages following the viewing of this episode. The first being that warming up is essential pto avoid getting hurt, to get into the game, to be physically ready. The second ? If you see Evan Fournier with headphones in the street, we advise you to avoid asking him for a photo.