Has the France team lost its madness? On Wednesday, Nicolas Batum wrote on Twitter, probably all sweaty and still shaking: “You are eggs, it’s heart like thing. I apologize for the past years.” The Blues had just qualified for the semi-finals of the Euro basketball against Italy after a match impossible to lose, then impossible to win. Since the start of the competition, France has been plugged into a highly unstable electric current, alternating for long minutes with excellent, before falling KO like a boxer surprised in the chin, then getting up again in conditions close to a miracle.
This time, Batum, leader of the Blues in normal times but resting for this competition, was able to calmly watch this semi-final against Poland, fanned toes on the coffee table and taste swallowed without spitting out a single crumb (the match started at 5:15 p.m.). In Berlin, the French team started well thanks to Guerschon Yabusele, continued well through the same player, the second knives of the team ending a Poland (which beat Slovenia) reduced to a third zone team . Result: a crazy skill (62% of successful shots, 58% for those with three points), an insane score at this stage of an international competition (95-54), and this same propensity to win games by being so generous : 16 bullet losses (as much on the Polish side).
In the final, the Blues will meet Germany (best team of the tournament and winner of the French team in the opening) or Spain, ancestral rival on the floors. Both teams play at 8:30 p.m.