In Villeneuve-d’Ascq,
“Almost. ” In other words, “almost”, for those who have done Saintongeais or Romansh in LV1. With a faint inscrutable smile, Tom Hovasse, the American coach of Japan, slipped this small note to a journalist he knew, before leaving the combined area of the Pierre-Mauroy stadium on Tuesday afternoon.
Led by a group of trigger-happy madmen, the small point guard (1. 72 m) Yuki Kawamura (29 points) and the Lakers’ forward Rui Hachimura (24 points) in the lead, the Japanese made Team France and the 27,000 livid spectators at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy cry.
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Despite Hachimura’s expulsion for a momentary unsportsmanlike foul, they knew how to hold on and even distance themselves from a Blues who were then absolutely disoriented, like their totem Victor Wembanyama. The Japanese even led four issues with 10 minutes to go, an insurmountable difference, and Vincent Collet felt the smell of a new fiasco, this Olympian, after an undignified 18th position in the World Championship. And then along came Matthew “Zorro” Strazel, rushing in, as the Bleus had no more time.
Unbalanced, the young Monaco point guard (22 years old on August 5), already from a game forged from the bench (17 numbers in total), made his functionality legendary by scoring a winning basket, with a foul by Kawamura as a bonus.
The loose shot, made without delay by the unexpected hero of the country with a deafening noise, sent both groups (84-84) and his team almost to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games since the Japanese, so catchy until over there. , they handed over their weapons.
In these obviously irrational conditions, what is at stake is to cede the ground to the plaintiff and to the witnesses placed.
Les Bleus are all but assured of their quarter-final berth before facing world champions Germany on Friday. But they can do it without forcing, they will not be able to count on a miracle every time to aspire to an Olympic medal.
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