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Group D, day 6, New Zealand vs. France
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I really don't think that we wanted to loose it on purpose, Collet wouldn't have made Pietrus play that long while he was injured short time ago.
Fact is everyone saw us bigger than we are after our win against Spain. We got worked up, but we're just too inconstant. Lack of experience & bad preparation games rise to the surface once the euphoria was passed. Predictable.
'n now we juste have to pray
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So Greece loses they get Spain, France loses they get to face a motivated and in front of an insane crowd Turkey. Lets hope this discourages teams from potentially intentionally losing games.Pistons: 2021-22 Let the Motorcade begin!!
Bronze medal 2013 Eurobasket prediction Game.
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We were trying to win no matter how it looked like. Don't forget how the team collapsed against lithuania.
And we have trouble in the group apparently, as some players who did not stop fighting seem to aim at others who are not giving what they could and should. We can't rely on a center to bring the ball inside and "kill" the opponent (if not the starter, his rotation). if traore does not step up badly, this will be a disappointing fail, even if we could not have big hopes with this team.
Nothing to do with russia vs greece here, just the limits of some of our player (and the lack of experience as well, everyone seem to forget that they average 24 yo, even if some teams are even younger, but we lack experience in big competition, just need to look how we defended in the end). Our supposed leaders are hiding or at least not weighting enough (nice joke for diaw i know, but he's not the guy i am aiming at, mostly de colo batum & above all traore), it's crazy to see that our bench is providing most of our scoring.
People underestimate the performance of new zealand as well, they were almost hiting everything from the perimeter (including 3 pretty lucky shots, last one included) and pretty motivated.
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