2024-08-03 00:47:06
Victor Wembanyama, Evan Fournier, Rudy Gobert … Several French players expressed their feelings after the 71-85 defeat against the German world champions.
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Evan Fournier (back of the Blues after the 71-85 defeat against Germany ) : “Yes, it is sad, of course. What are you missing? Quite a few things… Execution, lucidity in the game about what we want to do. I think this evening (Friday), we made a mistake… In addition, the Germans are better. Even in defense, we employ two of the best players (Dennis Schröder and Franz Wagner), it’s impossible. Gerschon Yabusele says that the France team is not ready? Well, that’s your idea… (…) We don’t have tokens, we have to move on. Sometimes, we make mistakes in the way we want to play. We pay the price because these days, the best defense is in attack. It’s not the game of the 90s, 2000s, where you can defend half court. Your attack is important on balance, transition, especially when you play a team as strong in transition as Germany. Do you still believe in him? Yes yes, is it important people? We lost a game, it hurt our ass, we will be in Paris, we will have a better game. We will not be the favorites. If you’re Canadian, it’s a very big group. But we are equipped to do great things. We have to do them. “
Rudy Gobert (pivot blues) : “They beat us at both ends of the floor, in every aspect. We did not begin to match the standards we were aiming for. They are a very good team and it shows. There are little reactions, we are able to show flashes, which is a powerful thing when we play the way we want to. Now, it is difficult to do more than 40 minutes, but we have to try to give each other ways. Security? When your standard is protection, and we’re not who we should be as a team, we disappear a little. We know that to give ourselves the best chance to get where we want to go, we need to be a dominant team defensively. (…) There is always time to improve. For us, it is a matter of consistency, of having this attitude from the first minute and the wisdom, it is up to us, depending on the opponent, to decide how to attack and defend. It is important to be who we are as a group. The whistles at halftime? It doesn’t hurt us, they are right. We are not at the level we should be. We were even more disappointed than them. On the bench at the start of the second half? These are the coach’s choices. If they are good ones, I don’t know, but when my teammates are on the field, I always want to support them. I trust the coach. “
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We got a little lost this evening.
Victor Wembanyama
Victor Wembanyama (in the Blues) : “It’s not that we had a problem getting into this match, but they were quick to us, not us to them… We continued with what didn’t work. We saw real determination in them and we lost a little in the evening We learn a lot about ourselves from this game. It’s not a question of love, it’s the way the Germans put it, we know Can we hurt them in the second half. We all have this passion. The difference is in the basketball we know, and I think that’s good for us who come to know each other. I’ve watched all the matches but not the points difference… Being active is what matters. And if we want to go to the end, We’ll have to beat everyone. We’ll be ready.”
Franck Ntilikina (Blues captain) : “It’s hard to lose like this. We respond the second time. This is the most important thing in terms of what happened. Well done to Germany who showed more intensity than us at the start. We know how to do it. We have a lot to learn from this match, there are three finals left. We are focusing on Tuesday. We are not here to calculate. Finishing first in the group and winning as a competitor is what matters. We don’t do it. The results of the first round? Little by little we see each other. We look for each other for a long time, during the preparation phase and also during the competition. We are starting to see interesting things. (…) The quarters in Paris? It is the next areas, so we “reset” everything, we start from scratch. It was a great experience in Lille, with fantastic supporters. We expect a lot from Bercy, that everyone is behind us, that we are all together. We are at home. It is up to us to respect it at home. French medals? It motivates us to achieve great things when we see French exploits in other disciplines. “.
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