The coach of the France team returned to the overtime victory of his players against Turkey in the round of 16 of the Euro.
Vincent Collet, the coach of the France team qualified for the quarter-finals of the Euro after its success against Turkey (87-86, ap), returned to the victory in the improbable scenario of his troops: “It’s basketball, I was hoping that Cedi Osman could miss a free throw, that we make an interception and that we score a basket at the buzzer to equalize. But we no longer had the cards in hand. (…) This is probably the craziest scenario I have known. I even thought we had won, I thought we were only one point behind, I don’t know why (…) In the third quarter, we got back into our ways. We had no more rhythm in attack, we defended less hard (…) Our eternal sin since the beginning of this tournament, it is the loss of balls. This weakness is really a hard-to-bear vulnerability, especially in a cleaver match. It has to stop because there can’t be a sequel, regardless of the opponent. It comes from a lack of discipline, effort on markdowns.