2023-08-07 21:49:00
Third preparation outing for the 2023 World Cup for the French team, and third victory! Vincent Collet’s men disposed of Venezuela 86-67 without too much difficulty, despite some imperfections. Next meeting: Lithuania, Wednesday evening!
Vincent Collet attested to this before this match once morest Venezuela: “Yesterday’s training was very satisfying”. We were thus expecting a good demonstration, and this was the case… despite some errors in the tricolor rhythm which left the Venezuelans a little too long – for our taste – in this match.
And yet, the start of the match masterfully dominated by Rudy Gobert and Guershon Yabusele allows the Blues to take the lead from the start of the match. Behind, executives De Colo, Fournier and Batum have their shots, but it will be necessary to try twice to really widen the gap, the outside success being almost starving during the first minutes of the match.
Showtime at the CO’Met Arena in Orléans ????#TeamFranceBasket | #PassionatelyBlue | #FIBAWC | #FRAVEN pic.twitter.com/QSKbs56ScR
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Thank you Terry Tarpey, since his few winning shots off the bench allowed his team to really launch a run to create a first gap. On the rebound, Rudy Gobert swallows the balls and will already be in a double-double at halftime. However, we were talking to you regarding defensive inaccuracies… and it is precisely on this that Venezuela will capitalize to stay alive, in particular thanks to audacious but rewarded solo offensives.
???? The statistics of the meeting:
Guerschon Yabusele 14 PTS, 4 REB
Rudy Gobert 13 PTS, 11 REB
Evan Fournier 13 PTS, 5 REB, 4 PD
Yoan Makoundou 8 pts
Terry Tarpey 6 PTS, 3 REB
Nando De Colo 5 PTS, 6 PD#TeamFranceBasket | #PassionatelyBlue | #FIBAWC | #FRAVEN
– French basketball teams (@FRABasketball) August 7, 2023
The solution will come from the racket since it is still our national Roudi, accompanied by Moustapha Fall, who will make the difference to lead France to success. This game without major sporting stakes was also an opportunity for Vincent Collet to experiment with new things, such as zone defense. Finally, with the gap secured, the rotations were sent out into the field, to join in the fun. On the performance side, the palm of the match goes to Gobert, author of 13 points and 11 rebounds. Evan Fournier also gets away with 13 pawns. Interestingly, all of the French players scored tonight. A way to integrate everyone into the effort, at the start of a very intense week with three games.
Source : FFBB
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