2023-09-02 12:03:00
The 2023 World Cup is FINALLY over for the French team. In their last classification match, the Blues won (87-77) once morest Côte d’Ivoire. A match like all of their competition: complicated. Ah yes, the French team finished 17th in this World Cup.
This damn feeling of having played the whole competition with ski boots on your feet and boxing gloves on your hands is finally over. EVERYTHING was complicated in Asia for our Blues who – totally disunited following the elimination once morest Latvia – finally ended this competition as they had started it, being there without being there. Result of the races an unconvincing victory this followingnoon once morest the Ivory Coast (87-77) and a 17th place in this World Cup. Quick, next.
Facing Ivory Coast still hovered today this strange atmosphere around our favorite team. In the attitudes, in the commitment and in the shots. Isaïa Cordinier (19 points, 3/4 behind the arc) was one of the best fitted today, being the most skilful of the team and the most invested in the meeting, with good passages from Sylvain Francisco also. Around ? Not much. Executives who do not want to be there and who spend their time contesting all the arbitration decisions, and we spent the lunch break watching France pull the mouth as if the blue jersey was a vulgar rag. Jean Michel Arceau, Kevin Brique and Hervé Tranche also played with us in attack, and the best moment of the match was perhaps when the BeinSports beam stopped broadcasting this basketball parody proposed in the 4th quarter.
Opposite, grinta, envy, in short, basketball. Despite limited means, the Ivorians had fun and tried to send the game with the smile that characterizes them. Despite a great outburst in the middle of the 3rd quarter (when France decided to play), the Elephants were not resigned and took advantage of the chronic nonchalance of the French team to come back with some nice moves from Nisre Zouzoua or Vafessa Fofana. A great performance that necessarily contrasts with the pallor of the match of the Blues.
Out runnin’! ????
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makes it a 1-point game heading into the 4th.#FIBAWC x #WinForCotedIvoire pic.twitter.com/f238Yogosm
— FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 ???? (@FIBAWC) September 2, 2023
The essential is there, a painful last victory but a victory all the same, one of the rare reproaches that one cannot make to the Blues on this phase of classification. Now it’s time for a big questioning following this fiasco, the Olympic Games are in 11 months and the work is huge.
Final score: 87-77 for France.
End of the World Cup.
End of the nightmare for the French team.
Rarely suffered so much looking at the blue jersey.
Now there’s work, big work and big decisions to come.
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) September 2, 2023
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