[Round 1 - Day 5 - Group A] France - Russia

[slice me nice2]

France had a hard time against Poland and to be honest, they couldn't have reached their full potential yet. Russia doesn't seem as a team at all and maybe they just want this Eurobasket to end.

 

[unnamed2]

Russian players don't have any sort of respect for each other. Yelling at one another when action is going on, someone even pushed his team mate to cover unguarded Frenchman so it's no wonder they lost all of their matches

 

[Joško Poljak Fan2]

Russian players don't have any sort of respect for each other. Yelling at one another when action is going on, someone even pushed his team mate to cover unguarded Frenchman so it's no wonder they lost all of their matches

Pushing a teamate isn't anything unussual. When I started playing bball we had an agreement to push each other if someone was late or in the way. If in a controlled manner that actualy helps. Not sure of how that works at this level, however it's not that unussual.

 

[Milos.Djuric2]

Pushing a teamate isn't anything unussual. When I started playing bball we had an agreement to push each other if someone was late or in the way. If in a controlled manner that actualy helps. Not sure of how that works at this level, however it's not that unussual.

Yeah I agree, it's nothing unusual when a player is unguarded and you push your teammate to go guard, and it was working for them then.
But now France is picking up on the defense and they have started to shoot better. Russians made a couple of mistakes in an OK organized attacks, the pressure is getting to them.

 

[elturco2]

If France play like tonight at TOP16, they will probably lose any team from Group B.

 

[christodoulou762]

I guess FRA doesn't care about this game at all.

 

[elturco2]

I guess FRA doesn't care about this game at all.

Maybe you are right. They aren't forcing themselves to win this game. Either way they have to win against Israel tomorrow to finish this group 1st.