Eurobasket 2025: France’s Round of 16 Exit – Mistakes Analyzed

Youth and inexperience: “They also had a lot of pressure”

The youngest team of the tournament, the French team sinned in the decisive moments of this eighth finals.

In addition to the start of the match, she misined the end of the 2nd and 3rd quarter before taking a terrible 12 to 2 in the last three minutes of the game.

A lack of logical execution and tactical discipline in a team where many players discovered the scent of a match with direct elimination with the weight of the blue jersey on the shoulders.

“Clearly, it was a lack of experience of these kinds of matches,” analyzes Mam Jaiteh in the mixed zone, in front of the media of which Olympics.com.

“It’s a direct elimination match, it has nothing to do with the group phases. This is another issue, a completely different context. We made a lot of errors that were a little naive (…) it is a round of 16, it is a European championship. The clearance matches have nothing to do with the hen. There is a certain experience, a certain experience. »»

Georgia with its average age of 28.6, much greater than that of Olympic vice-champions (25.4 years) took advantage of it, as said Sandro Mamukelashviliin the mixed zone, in a triumphant mood.

“It’s experience, of course. They were younger with Coulibaly, Risacher, Maledon. They were all young guys. And I have the impression that they also had a lot of pressure. Because, when you are such a young player and you have to come back with a medal, necessarily you play under pressure. »»

“But they have played well and probably when the whole team is back, it will be a different team. But as I said, today we have won, we are happy, we are proud of us and we are proud of our country. »»