In a trap match, the Blues have never managed to get out of their torpor, lacking offensive ideas, and bowed against Israel after a last disastrous quarter. A stopping that does not however question their qualification chances for the 8th of the Eurobasket.
Here, The French team was passing his first test at the Eurobasket, a test noted against the Sloveniabut with a lot of difficulties. Nevertheless, the qualification objective was on track, and the Blues could damn approach it in the event of a victory over Israel. Provided you succeed in chaining …
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And it was going to be without Alexandre Sarrleft aside for suspicious pain. And in a match between two teams who had played the day before, the legs were heavy at the start of the game. Little success in shooting, little rhythm and Freddy Fauthoux quickly opened his bench. It is Zaccharie Risacher Who created a first gap, the N ° 1 of the Draft 2024 quickly registering 8 points. But the Blues, superiors, lacked defensive intensity, which explained that they only led “5 points after the first quarter (22-17).
But the Blues had trouble holding up in terms of consistency, and that was felt on a series of Israelis who allowed them to go to the lead. The French found themselves forced to fight a kind of row battle, without blows but with a certain harshness which cost them many faults. Laborious, it was the word that suited this match best, which was clearly not played at the break (36-36).
And that did not work out on the return from the locker room. The Blues were still so borrowed, the Israeli arrows found their target recurrently, and the turnover did not do well hoped. The French were put to sleep, constantly on a changing pace, and could not develop a basketball worthy of the name.
Fortunately, Élie Okobo Leave his box, with three huge shoots in a row, but the Israeli answer, at the start of the last quarter, was terrible in the form of a 11-0 !
The Blues found themselves widely carried out, dominated in the commitment and in the battle of the rebound. Plusted by a deplorable success at three points, they saw the gap crossing the 10 points 3 minutes from the term. The victory had escaped, by the fact of a very bad offensive animation, but especially of a last apocalyptic quarter (13-27). The Blues finally bowed 82-69. The qualification for the 8th of the Eurobasket remains largely in the French strings, but we will have to take out the big game Tuesday evening against Poland, the host country.
