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The female version of Wembanyama that threatens to dominate world basketball

It is the female version of Victor Wembanyama”. It is not the typical exaggerated comparison of the press. Tony Parker, who knows a little about basketball, said it in 2021, when the club he presides over, ASVEL Villeurbanne, signed Dominique Malonga, a A prodigious player who will turn 17 in November, she is 1.98 meters tall, moves around the court with tremendous fluidity and has a great ability to make dunks.Like her compatriot and male counterpart, she threatens to dominate world basketball.

Malonga has now become viral for a video in which he demonstrates his conditions: he receives at the free throw line, he reverses at full speed and ends up crushing. A sample of his ability to play above the rim. He has very long limbs, although that does not prevent him from handling the ball with ease and running the counterattack. Her footwork is excellent and she has a good hand, although given her superiority in the zone she doesn’t exploit it too much.

Dominique Malonga puts on a cap during a game of the French national team.FIBA

However, the name of the pvot is already in the summer during the U17 Women’s World Cup, when she entered the ideal quintet of the tournament (along with the Spanish Iyana Martn) despite being a year younger than the rest of the participants. She finished with averages of 18.0 points, 10 rebounds, 1.3 blocks and a 22.4 efficiency. She led this last statistic, she was the second leading scorer and the fourth best rebounder. In the semifinal against Spain she finished with 21 points and 14 rebounds. In the fight for bronze, she led her team to the podium with 28 + 17.

Malonga already had brilliant performances last year in the Women’s Eurocup with ASVEL. Despite her age, she participated in seven games with averages of 11.6 minutes, 6.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and a PIR of 8.6. This season she will compete again in the second European competition and she aims to be one of the sensations. In the Villeurbanne team you can learn from the veteran Sandrine Gruda, one of the best players in the history of Gallic basketball, enjoy the magic of Marine Johannes and share a dressing room with the Spanish Laura Quevedo and the Lithuanian Juste Jocyte, another young woman named to great heights and that he was born only three after her.

Malonga and Wembanyama, two young unicorns with whom France hopes to dominate basketball in the coming years.

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