Basketball: third package with the Blues with the pivot Moustapha Fall

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,” smiled Vincent Collet on Tuesday, during the press briefing for the French basketball team.

The national coach was talking about the withdrawals of two of the 17 players initially summoned for EuroBasket 2022 (September 1-18) in Germany, namely Victor Wembanyama and Andrew Albicy.

The doctors, however, still decided to replace coach Collet and the tricolor staff since then.

We learn indeed this Thursday, in a press release, that Moustapha Fall (21 sel.) must throw in the towel.

Silver medalist with the Blues last summer at the Tokyo Olympics, the 30-year-old pivot “

”.

Kamagate as backup, but...

Unlike the two previous glitches, this one invites Vincent Collet to call on a new player.

Seen at Paris Basketball last season, chosen in the second round of the last NBA Draft and recently seen at the Summer League, Ismaël Kamagate will join the tricolor group in Montpellier.

However, he is not a candidate for a place in the selection of 12 players for the Euro, he who will arrive in the Hérault "

".

Remember that if the packages of Wembanyama and Fall are final, there is still some hope for Albicy, if the latter is delivered in time of course.

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In the meantime, coach Collet has only three pivots available in a group now reduced to 14 players, Rudy Gobert, Vincent Poirier and Mam Jaiteh.

The three called to do the EuroBasket?

The staff will have the first answers on the ability of his racquet to hold the shock in Germany from Sunday (5 p.m.), with the first of six preparation matches on the menu.

It will be against the Dutch selection, on the boards of the Kindarena in Rouen.