this french team he had no mercy dialect and sealed the transition to the final of European basketball, a undated game (54-95)he controlled it from start to finish, thanks to the defensive show that unleashed his opponent.
Led by Real Madrid’s forward Gershon Yabusele On offense (22 points), the French showed the best version of the championship against Luka Doncic’s Slovenian executioner in the quarterfinals.
He was so calm for the semi-final Olympic runner-up that his coach said, Vincent Colletteseparated the stars of the team in the last quarter, Rudy Gobert (6 points and 6 rebounds) and Evan Fournier (10 points and 4 assists) for the final next Sunday, when France will play the winner of Germany-Spain.
France has built an impenetrable wall in the first half (18-34). Proof of this is that his opponent only scored 18 points in 20 minutes and scored a low percentage on the court (7 baskets in 31 tries). A disastrous statistic (17/53) confirmed at the end of 40 minutes. No Central European player scored 10 or more points.
A Slovenia’s executioner’s nightmare Luke Doncic this seemed to start him off with a defensive intensity that did very well in the quarterfinals. But France, which needed extra time to settle their previous two middles, worked hard from the first minute.
Real Madrid player Guershon Yabusele entered the penalty area with two three-pointers, while the team coached by Vincent Collet easily took the lead in the first 10 minutes (9-15).
in the second room, Poland denied in attack adding the same points as the first (9). In fact, no team has dropped below 20 points in the first part of a continental semi-final since Hungary 1946.
The Central European team opened the goal in the second quarter at 3 and a half minutes. only a little AJ Slaughter and Ponitka’s outer spark With Rudy Gobert’s defense under the rim, Terry Tarpey’s offensive passes, and Vincent Pourier’s strength in the region, they were able to question French supremacy.
The partial division in the second period was less voluminous (9-19), as the Gauls didn’t get any more three-pointers (4 hits in 12 tries in the first half), but still enjoyed a comfortable advantage to cover the second half with confidence (18-34).
When restarted, Poland continued the French skating without resistance. The Central European team did not know how to break the opponent’s net. Mateusz Ponitka, who made a triple-double against Slovenia, was helpless on offense.
‘Bleus’ didn’t have to display themselves offensively to punish the match. They had enough 3-pointers from Yabusele, Fournier and Albicy to solidify the 6-18 series in 7 minutes (25-52).
Yabusele, the most remarkable player of the third quarter, used his opponent’s desperation to bandage and led his team, which won 29 points (30-59, min.29) in the last minutes of the third quarter.
Before the last quarter The team coached by Igor Milici was proud to close the gap (36-61), but the bell finished with a three-pointer on Elie Ekobo (36-64).
The final act was a formality (18-31), which France also dominated with an iron fist. Collet rested his stars by thinking about the final, and Milicic didn’t use Ponitka (7 points) and Slaughter (9) to win bronze.
France will play another continental final nine years later. He hung the gold medal by beating Lithuania (80-66) in 2013.
Data sheet:
54 – Poland (9+9+18+18): Slaughter (9), Ponitka (7), Sokolowski (2), Cel (3), Balcerowski (5) -starting from five-, Dziewa (5), Garbacz (5), Kolenda (-), Michalak (9), Olejniczak (2), Schenk (2) and Zyskowski (5).
95 – France (15+19+30+31): Albicy (3), Fournier (10), Tarpey (8), Yabusele (22), Gobert (6) -starting five-, Autumn (6), Heurtel (7), Luwawu-Cabarrot (4), Maledon (3 ), M’baye (8), Okobo (10), and Poirier (8).
Referees: Saverio Lanzarini (Italy), Martins Kozlovskis (Latvia) and Lorenzo Baldini (Italy). Without being destroyed.
Events: The first semi-final match of the Eurobasket, played in front of 11,563 spectators at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin.