The ribbon fell, and Spain won the 2022men’s basketball European Championship trophy men’s basketball. As the runner-up, France men’s basketball could only watch the old opponent standing on the top and sigh for himself to fall to the final again.
France may be one of the saddest teams in the last three competitions. They are so close to the champion, but they always fall short. France won the third place in the men’s basketball World Cup in 2019. In the 2021tokyo Olympic Games, France lost only 5 points to the United States in the final. This year’s European Cup, France is also the runner-up.
“I don’t like losing the final. This feeling is not good, but losing also gives us motivation. There are still many links to be improved, whether it is the individual players or the team as a whole, next, we have a good chance to play our best performance,” Gobel said after losing to Spain in the European Championship.
The “opportunity” in Gobel’s mouth refers to the 2024 Paris Olympics, when France will play as the host.
It is still two years before the Paris Olympics, and it is too early to make any predictions now. However, the US media ESPN published today that France will be the strongest rival of the US men’s basketball in the next Olympic Games, and they have the opportunity to prevent the US from achieving five consecutive Olympic championships. Why does ESPN ignore Spain, which won the 2019 World Cup and the European Championship this year, and is optimistic about France? Is France really capable of challenging America?
In the golden age of French basketball, the outside line was strong and the inside line was weak. The inside line composed of Turiaf, agensa and Dior was generally competitive. France mainly relied on the outside line composed of Parker, Batum, pitus and others to fight the world. France defeated Spain in the European Championship in 2013 and the World Cup in 2014. After Parker faded out of the national team, De Colo became the core of the French backcourt. With NBA players such as funier, Batum, and Gobel, France became a more balanced team inner and outer line.
In recent years, nilikina, mop Asia and other new stars have entered the NBA, but they have not made great achievements. France is somewhat old-fashioned. As soon as we arrive at the competition, France will face the problems that jazz faced before. In the critical Battle of tit-for-tat, the problems of Gobel’s lack of offensive means and small defensive scope were exposed.
However, the situation may be different in the Paris Olympics in 2024. The dependence of the French insiders on Gobel may be solved by enbide and Wen banama. Previously, France ignored the opposition of French basketball players such as Parker and naturalized enbied without French ancestry. There is no need to say much about what level of player health enbide is. He won the scoring champion with an average of 30.6 points last season. With enbede, the French insider airborne a big attack killer, and Gobel’s vulnerability of no autonomous attack capability was blocked.
Wen banama has not yet entered the NBA, but he is regarded as the top show next year. At the age of 18, he is 2 meters tall and 24 meters tall naked, and his arm show is a horrible 2 meters 44, not to mention how comprehensive its attack is, its defensive coverage area can make up for the weakness of Gobel’s defense. In the recent competition, Wen banama’s data was quite exaggerated.
Enbide, Gobel and wenbanyama, among which the shortest enbiad is also 2 meters 13 tall, these three people hold up the French Inner Line, in the words of ESPN, france will have the most dominant internal configuration in the world. Looking at the world basketball, no team has an internal configuration comparable to France. Spain has the Ernan Gomes brothers and Garuba, but the height is not as high as France. There is only one yorkic in Serbia, only one adtokunbo in Greece, and the interior of Slovenia is still relying on domestication.
As for the United States, they have been worrying about the lack of high-quality local centers over the years. During the Tokyo Olympic Games, the American insiders were rotated by Adebayor, Raymond Green and Mackey. In the next Olympic Games, the United States will probably only be able to use Knight double tower jarert-Allen, Evan-Mobley, Celtics insider Robert Williams, Grizzly Bear Insider little Jaron-Jackson. If Anthony Davis can play, the internal pressure of the United States will be reduced a lot, but he has never joined the national team since 2014.
The potential advantages of the French inner line are large, and the outer line is hard to say. The outside of France is facing the dilemma of blue and yellow, and no new star has shown its ability to be unique. By 2024, what they could rely on was de Kolo, funier and Batum, but by then, the youngest funier among the three would also be 31 years old, it is still unknown whether they can maintain the state when the Tokyo Olympics played be inextricably involved with the United States.
In this year’s European Championship, Herter, the point guard, performed well. He scored 10.4 points and 7.1 assists, with a three-point hit rate. This is the best competition in Herter’s national team’s career. It seems that a season at Real Madrid has improved his projection and organization. But Herter is 33 years old this year, and he will be 35 when he comes to the Paris Olympics.
In the next two years, France needs reserve forces to come up as soon as possible. The former 8th show nirikina has been in NBA for 5 seasons and has not yet emerged. He is still a marginal person in the Lone Ranger who has a non-guaranteed contract. On the guard line, France still has Hays who currently plays for the piston, but judging from the performance of Hays’s three-point shooting rate of 26.8% in the first two years of his NBA career, he only got 6.8 points in the game, hays still has a long way to go to become the core of the French backcourt.
Generally speaking, if France really builds the super three towers on the book, they can indeed make trouble for the United States by virtue of their high advantages, but whether they can pick the United States down depends on the chemical reaction of the inner three towers, what is the configuration of France’s back court and front line, as well as the strength and versatility of each position. After all, on the strength of the back court and the front line, the United States still exists in the world. Their small ball storm has a height disadvantage, but it also has a speed advantage. Projection is the weakness of the United States, but if Curry responds to Cole’s call to join the team to lead the team out, the United States will match the striker, and France’s high advantage may be weakened.