Dix ans après la continental couronnement de Tony Parker et Boris Diaw’s team, celebrated by the Béarn public before kick-off, their successors, led by active European champions captain Nicolas Batum (7 pts) and Nando De Colo (10 pts), delivered an applied and serious performance, without any hitch or many lessons.
“We shouldn’t try to draw anything from this match. It would be a mistake, the trap is quite obvious,” summarized coach Vincent Collet. “Now we must want and be able to do the same thing against stronger opponents,” he added.
With Wembanyama skipping the trip to Asia to fully devote himself to the San Antonio Spurs this summer, Vincent Collet was able to rely on a very solid interior sector with the dazzling Guerschon Yabusele (18 points, top scorer and 28 efficiency rating), and the almost-twin towers Rudy Gobert (2.16m, 11 pts) and Moustapha Fall (2.18m, 8 pts) against a limited opponent.
No suspense
Defense, a key sector in all medals won for almost 15 years, once again did its work, first during the second quarter with a 21-0 inflicted in 5 minutes on the Tunisians, followed by a 22-2 during the next, removing all suspense (75-30).
“We tried to implement what we had seen in training, even if it wasn’t easy because it wasn’t necessarily the opposition we expected,” admitted Nando De Colo, in good shape for his return with the French team.
As expected, playing time was evenly shared among the players (all between 11 and 21 minutes), as was the scoring, with a good overall three-point shooting percentage (50%). Even the aerial Yves Pons, launched for the first time in the international arena in place of rested Mathias Lessort (ankle), stood out with 5 points scored in 11 minutes.
The Blues will continue their rise in power against Montenegro on Wednesday, “a team that always poses problems for us, that is rough,” warns Collet, then against Venezuela (August 7), Lithuania (August 9 and 11), Japan (August 17), and finally Australia (August 20).
They will begin the global competition on August 25 against Canada in Jakarta (Indonesia), in Group H, which also includes Latvia and Lebanon.
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