2023-06-15 21:21:00
While the French women’s team struggled against the Germans and yours truly took the opportunity to take extra lentil sausage, Victor Wembanyama and the Mets had filled Roland-Garros. Verdict? Victor did like any good Frenchman, he lost at Roland-Garros.
This time it is well and truly over. Unlike Frank Ntilikina in the past, Victor Wembanyama will not have had the opportunity to win a match in the final of the French championship. Past the feat of quoting Frank Ntilikina in a basketball article in 2023, what really happened tonight at Roland? Neither more nor less than a certain definition of logic, with a Ferrari going faster than an Audi, basically.
Alley-oop for Wemby entrance. Philippe-Chatrier on fire. French basketball is at the top ????@TrashTalk_fr pic.twitter.com/fhbJZTxyfO
— Arthur TrashTalk (@ArthurJBaudin) June 15, 2023
Monaco and its four-star roster, third in the EuroLeague this season, winner of Strasbourg 2-1 in the quarterfinals and Bourg 3-0 in the semis, and which therefore left only crumbs for the Metropolitans in the final to get the first championship in its history. 3-0 is tough considering the very honest Games 2 and 3 of the Mets, but these Monegasques were simply untouchable. Jaron Blossomgame then Elie Okobo had been very strong then Jordan Lloyd turned off the light, nothing to say, the champion is beautiful but he is above all indisputable, despite a match 3 long “mastered by the Mets after a perfect start.
On the Metropolitans side precisely? A duo of prominent Americans (TaShawn Thomas and DeVante Jones, good players but soft on the caps) and, of course, the last of Victor Wembanyama in France (22 points at 6/11 in shooting and 9/9 in throws, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks), while his colleague Bilal Coulibaly will probably also leave France soon. Draft in a week on the dot, and the Alien has therefore – with regret – bid farewell to the French public, after a final of which he could never have been the hero. A standing ovation, of course, for a big kid who we won’t see again anytime soon on a French floor (for the Olympic Games in 2024) and who will very soon represent France beyond the surrounding planets, by bagging teams composed of other aliens like him, but less strong.
Victor Wembanyama is unstoppable pic.twitter.com/QVS09yj1Zc
— Kevin O’Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) June 15, 2023
Monegasques congratulations, Metropolitans congratulations, and we hope you enjoyed it. Here we will continue to celebrate Victor with each of his strides, more on the Texas side now. Congratulations to the champions, and look forward to the rest.
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