The clash between our only two representatives in the Euroleague scheduled for the same day (and almost at the same time) as the French team’s first match on the road to the 2023 World Cup. the provocation. Unfortunately for the Blues as for ASVEL and Monaco, it’s anything but a joke. And this Friday evening, the Villeurbannais and Monegasques will be face to face on the floor of the Gaston-Médecin room, at 8:00 p.m., while a few hundred kilometers away, in Pau (kick-off at 8:30 p.m.), the France team will get things serious against Montenegro in qualifying for the next World Cup. Still marked by this rather incomprehensible, if not stupid, choice of instances, Tony Parker does not take offense. And he’s probably not about to do it. “It’s dramatic to have these two meetings at the same time, with Monaco, we had asked the Euroleague to postpone the match …”, plague in the columns of the newspaper Le Parisien this Friday the president of ASVEL, who will also have to do without the Roca Team for this Franco-French shock of the premier category of several players, and not the least (Wembanyama, Diot and Lighty will be absent due to injury, just like Knight and Osetkowski, isolated in under the Covid-19 protocol, and Paul Lacombe, retained by Vincent Collet for the match against the Montenegrins).
Parker: “My brother is not happy, he is right”
“I have the impression of being taken in, admits also TP in the daily newspaper (…) The Fédé asked me to release Paul Lacombe, but it forgets that I have six injured in my team and that the Euroleague season continues. Everyone knows I love the France team and want to see them win, but it’s a difficult situation for me. My brother (TJ Parker, ASVEL coach ) is not happy, he is right. Who will he play with against Monaco. ” A question that obviously did not touch the authorities when scheduling the two meetings the same evening. Already not a fan of these international windows which force the selections to evolve without their NBA and Euroleague stars (“It will be necessary to explain to me what these international qualifying matches are for without the best players), the former leader of San Antonio does not risk revising his position after this new stab.
