2023-08-28 00:13:51
DECRYPTION – Announced among the contenders for the world title, the France team is eliminated after only two matches. Fiasco, one year before the Olympics.
It’s a fiasco, a crash. Perhaps the biggest disappointment in the history of French basketball. Bronze medalists at the last two World Cups (2014, 2019), outgoing Olympic and European vice-champions, the Blues landed in Jakarta with dreams of coronation in their heads. They won’t even see the quarter-finals. In fact, they are eliminated before the second group stage. Unlikely… This is the mostbig disappointment in selectionof Captain Batum, who felt “shame for the first timein the France team. “We took a slap on this tournament“, notes Evan Fournier, author of 27 points in the defeat against Latvia (86-88) on Sunday, two days after the debacle against Canada (65-95). “It’s not up to our team to be eliminated in the first round of the World Cup“, summarizes Rudy Gobert, when the national coach Vincent Collet evokes”a nightmare».
After Canada, we expected a reaction. It took place, more or…
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