This Thursday, on the eve of the EuroBasket semi-final between France and Poland – and when he should have initially been part of Vincent Collet’s group – Victor Wembanyama got over his nerves on the Darüşşafaka. What is Darüşşafaka? An amateur club that a professional team drums before the recovery, just to keep the rhythm? Oh, far from it.
Arthur Rimbaud said “You’re not serious when you’re seventeen.” Complete Victor Wembanyama “We become one when we are eighteen”. This Thursday, at a late hour, while the editor was eyeing his phone in a train on line 8 towards Balard, a tweet caught his attention. A tweet that the other passengers of the train would have given off with a quick boost. The subject of this tweet? A photo of the billboard in the Jean Bouin room in Angers. Above, the name of Wembanyama next to which are listed… 34 points. Hey, who, what, how? It goes as fast as that? We would like to thank the highly unpaid special envoy, who allowed us to get a little head start and not wait until tomorrow morning to debrief this performance with the readership. In the process, the official account of the Metropolitans 92 – Victor’s new team since his departure from ASVEL last July – released the details of his statistics against the Darüşşafaka team, engaged in Turkish D1: 34 points at 71% shooting, 10 rebounds, 3 blocks, 0 fouls against 11 provoked for… 37 evaluation. We recall that he has only been allowed to drink alcohol in a bar since January. We also recall that he should have been part of the French group at EuroBasket, but that his injuries at the end of the season with ASVEL kept him away. Boh, he finally found some Turks to deal with.
Ladies & Gentlemen ????
Victor Wembanyama!What a performance of @vicw_32 tonight ????
He was unbearable!!!???? Ses stats :
34 points (71%)
10 rebounds
3 blocks
0 fouls ???? 11 fouls caused
37 rating
15 au +/-#GoMets92 pic.twitter.com/QuxUVdYTBo– Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 (@Metropolitans92) September 15, 2022
What is the competition worth? Is this meeting too anecdotal to take Victor’s performance into account? Every year – and since 1982 – the Pro Stars tournament brings together well-referenced European teams to play and prepare solidly before the start of the season. It’s an Angevin who speaks: the coaches are not used to sparing their players there and take this meeting as a real test. There, the Metropolitans move to Gravelines in a week for the first day of Betclic Élite. This match against Darüşşafaka is part of the last run-in during which many lights must (normally) be green. And the Darüşşafaka suddenly, let’s talk about it. In the 2021-22 season, the team finished 5th in the Super Lig, behind the top names Fener, Analodu Efes and Galatasaray. She also won the EuroCup in 2018. We liked their way of justifying the rouste eaten by an 18-year-old kid, on their Twitter account : « Wembanyama, who is sure to be the No. 1 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, scored 34 points ». In fashion you got slapped but with pride. All that to say that Victor Wembanyama’s performance is gargantuan, the opponent playing at the level… of a mid-table team in Betclic Elite? It should be over there. We are now waiting for the first official videos of the meeting – we slip you one of a spectator just below – and we go to sleep, to gain strength before the festivities of tomorrow evening.
— BigFaceCoffee (@BigFaceCoffeee) September 15, 2022
What a cheek. One year from his draft in very likely quality as first pick, and especially on the eve of a huge meeting for the France team, Victor Wembanyama attracts a little glory by spanking fathers whose only job is the orange ball. Congratulations to the spectators who smelled the good shot: 34 points from the next NBA first pick, in Angers, for only 2€ for the students, in a room 3/4 empty. This kind of evening, literally historic, that you can tell the journalists of the 2050s
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