The most total state of weightlessness. This Sunday evening, the Blue won the Europe Cup 2022 of 3×3, two and a half months after their coronation at the World Cup. « When the sun shines, they shine together ». The maxim is up to this team, just historic, and shaking up world 3×3 basketball. Well done ladies.
Myriam Djekoundadé, Marie Mané, Hortense Limouzin and Laëtitia Guapo. In the final of the Europe Cup, the Fantastic 4 beat the Netherlands, sometimes forgetting to respect the context and the logic of the format. It’s a final, not a group match. On the field, the difference in level between the two teams was noticed: the French have never been behind, and ended up winning 21 to 14. The only time in the tournament that they were behind their opponent? In the quarterfinals, when the Lithuanians scored the first basket of the game. It only lasted about thirty seconds, then these big bad guys – like all the other teams in the competition – took a big thunderbolt. Once Lithuania had passed, Les Bleues quietly defeated Spain in the semi-finals, 21 to 11. It should be noted in passing that the Iberian neighbors are 3rd in the FIBA ranking, just ahead of the France team. Once again therefore, the logic was swept away with great blows of right hand lay-ups signed Laetitia Guapo. The player from Bourges finished 2nd best scorer in the competition with 7 points per game. She thus passes 9th in the FIBA individual rankingand close behind the Lithuanian Kamile Nacickaite.
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Nice mention also for Myriam Djekoundade, already present at the World Cup two months earlier, and decisive on this new international window. Villeneuve d’Ascq post office 3 has ended 4th best scorer of this Europe Cup 2022, with 5.4 units per encounter. The most surprising ? She only joined the France 3×3 team this year. You’re there, you still have a blank professional track record at 24, and you’re coming out of your tranquilou-bilou summer with two gold medals. If she maintains this level on the next big dates, there is no doubt that Djekoundade will be part of the group for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. This new confirmation places her (already) in 42nd place in the FIBA individual ranking ! Same story for Hortense Limouzin, who also started with the French 3×3 team this year. His competitor? An average of 5 points per game (7th highest scorer in the tournament) and the 14th spot in the FIBA individual ranking. Less light for the defensive Marie Mané, victorious from her first selection for the France 3×3 team. She took over from Marie-Eve Paget, crowned world champion with Guapo, Djekoundade and Limouzin last June. A rather successful first therefore: the player from Landerneau is on the roof of Europe.
female titans. Les Bleues are the bosses of the world, of Europe, and climb to 4th place in the collective ranking of FIBA. Therefore ? As a result, in one summer, the French women’s team has become public enemy No. 1 on the 3×3 circuit, and will have to – after having celebrated this double coronation very worthily – affirm this new hierarchy on the next major dates. international.