France national team 2010

[Federoy]

france should look into american NBA coach, who likes to teach and get the commitment of the players and play a hybride game nba/fiba like the USA. play to your streangths.

Oddly enough, I actually agree with your statement. The bulk of France's NT roster plays in the NBA, and as the American failures of the past have proven, there's a transition process that must take place when adjusting from NBA to FIBA basketball. I think it's unreasonable to expect that French players can simply be inserted into the NT line-up and play FIBA basketball without the benefit of experience and cohesion to succeed at that level. Teams like Germany, Lithuania or Serbia have the majority of their players playing in Europe under international rules, so the adjustment period takes far less time, making it more likely for them to build team chemisty.

France should definitely play to its strengths. Speed and athleticism are two of their great advantages, but along with that, they need to mold individual talents into a functioning unit, and that's where I think an American coach could be valuable. France in a lot of ways resembles the make-up of an American team (not speaking strictly in terms of race/ethicity), and I believe an American coach can exploit those similarities and be successful at doing so.

Nolan Richardson, who since leaving Arkansas has gone on to coach both the Panamaian and Mexican NTs, would be an ideal candidate as coach. He uses an uptempo style of basketball ("40 Minutes of Hell" as he called it at Arkansas) to overwhelm the opponent on the offensive and defensive end, yet he has the understanding of the fundamental X's and O's necessary to win in international play. He had marginal success at elevating Panama and Mexico, but those teams never had the skill and talent that France does, so it could turn out to be a perfect marriage. Just a thought.

[PRSURF]

Nice american tour !

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PG and C are rubbish !
When Bokolo is your best PG (even though I like him very much, we are talking about international bball here), you know you have a problem.

I hope De Colo can somehow find his Valencia form at PG. (well, never seen Valencia play this season, but I heard he was doing okay there).


So far, we are a 2 man team. Only Diaw and Batum are playing good, with Bokolo and Flo Pietrus doing okay somehow.

Ajinca play good defense!

[damelo]

Oddly enough, I actually agree with your statement. The bulk of France's NT roster plays in the NBA, and as the American failures of the past have proven, there's a transition process that must take place when adjusting from NBA to FIBA basketball. I think it's unreasonable to expect that French players can simply be inserted into the NT line-up and play FIBA basketball without the benefit of experience and cohesion to succeed at that level. Teams like Germany, Lithuania or Serbia have the majority of their players playing in Europe under international rules, so the adjustment period takes far less time, making it more likely for them to build team chemisty.

They still learned the game under FIBA rules, and won some titles as youngsters against some guys that actually beat them. Is NBA having players loosing their level?

Well, you speak about cohesion fo Germany, but basically, the matter for France is not about NBA or FIBA. It is about who is coming or not! Every years, we start with 20+ names in the team, half of which vanish as summer passes on. I think Germany kept a roster that looked the same every year. Not exactly, but closely.

You ad our Injury record, and you get that French team that spends more time trying to know who will be there because they have already renegociated contracts, not got injured playing summer leagues, or even training for the WC.

The team has still a nice potential, but I still prefer De Colo as a combo off the bench. That was supposed to be his place, but both our PG got injured. I didn't see France matches yet, but saw some from Valencia. De Colo is not a real PG yet. He is doing all right, but may seem like the Parker begining with San Antonio. I think the coach was still giving him lots of orders on the court, and a large part of the creation was in the hands of Matt Nielsen. De Colo remains a great future player, and an already great scoring guy.

The main problem NBA is giving us is that guys are more attached to NBA than NT, and thus, prefer to ensure their place in the US before coming to Turkey.

Spain has not that problem. Only Pau Gasol do things that way. Germany has not that problem. Dirk is good enough not to fear not being the Franchise player of Dallas.

The coaching problem is not the main one. The main one is to have a regular team every year to get more cohesion. Fast game is linked to defense. If France can defend together, they will run any fast break they can.

[gazara]

why not Lebanon to repeat 2006

Lebanon can win over NZ canada and France ,specially the Lebanese team is doing very well

1-Great team ,the best NT for Lebanon since we debute Basketball ,Great coach ,Great chemistry ,Grest spirit ,Great players ,many scorers ,Many stars ,Big Heart

2-Win Stankovic Asia Cup over Japan by 39 pts in Final without Matt Freijie

3-Play Effes Pilsen Cup :loose to Turkey by 21 pts with Big performance by Lebanese Team

4-Loose To Argentina (1st fiba ranking) by 7 pts only ,our Team is great and doing very well

5-Win over Canada by 12 pts ,and all the game lebanon was leading all quarters ,and Coach baldwin play with big Rotation ,all 12 players played ...

Our Team is great ,We have to play in the same way in WC ,our target is to reach the 2nd round ,why not win over France ,Nz and Canada ...Lithuania and Spain 2 hard missions

WE are Prouddd of our Teammm ,of Our NT ,of Our Playersss

The trioo Khatib-Vroman-Friejie Are unstoppablee ,3 scorers and not to miss Fahed Roni the best shooter who killed France in 2006

Cedarsssss are Comiiiiiinggggggggg
Long Live Lebanoooooooonnnnnnnnn

[LaNaranjaBasket]

Its the 12-man roster known yet?

[raph]

Should be known either tonight (press conference after the game) or tomorrow.

Lombahe-kahudi & ajinca could be cut though since they did not play the last game and tonight's game.

Which would mean :
pg : de colo - bokolo - albicy
sg : batum - causeur - jackson
sf - diaw- gelabale
pf : flo pietrus - koffi
c : traoré - mahinmi

If we follow the trend during the preparation, pg duty should be shared mostly by bokolo & albicy as de colo has been suffering (and we need his scoring) to create offense and to defend properly other team's pg's.

Ppf duty will mostly be shared between diaw and flo pietrus, koffi will switch from pf to c and gelabale should be used at pf if we run some small ball basically.
Sf will be shared between batum and gelabale mostly, diaw at times (it will depend on the match up ofc, and on the fouls received).

[samer_1_2]

Tomorrow never dies.. There will start the FIBA 2010 tomorrow..
We are all waiting this big event.. HOPE EVERYTHING GOES FINE.

http://www.sport24.com/basket-nba/mondial-2010/actualites/les-bleus-apres-l-espagne-409268/

Good luck for aFrance

[micho]

Tomorrow never dies.. There will start the FIBA 2010 tomorrow..
We are all waiting this big event.. HOPE EVERYTHING GOES FINE.

http://www.sport24.com/basket-nba/mondial-2010/actualites/les-bleus-apres-l-espagne-409268/

Good luck for aFrance

don t be so happy hahaha coz lebanon will kick your team out of WC this year again after 2006 win .. good luck for you