TOPS
Monstrous and decisive Gobert
He is clearly the man of this meeting.
With 20 points and 17 rebounds, Rudy Gobert was decisive by scoring the putback to equalize and take the Blues into overtime after Evan Fournier's missed shot (77-77).
His and-one converted on the free throw line a few seconds before the break also helped to heal the bleeding by calming the awakening of the Turks.
In the last quarter, his very big block led to a 3-point transition from Thomas Heurtel, which allowed France to launch their return to money-time.
The pivot of the Timberwolves also caused a dozen faults, very useful to stop the hot moments of Turkey.
The Turkish external address
Turkey finished the match with 39% from 3-pointers: a percentage that was quite correct without being insolent but in the real content, the Turks almost buried French hopes with big shots from afar.
During their big 19-0 run in the second quarter, Ergin Ataman's players were able to count on the hot hand of Bugrahan Tuncer (six of six from 3-pointers at this time of the match).
Turkey twice made a series of three consecutive outside shots.
In the second half, Furkan Korkmaz and Turkish second knives Sertac Sanli and Sehmus Hazer imitated their teammates to press seven meters.
FLOPS
The Friable Mind
Again, again and again... France got scared.
Decidedly the Blues are unable to release a serene performance during the four quarters.
How could this match end in extra time when the French team so dominated the proceedings during the first 16-17 minutes of play with solidity and confidence?
The Blues were never led in the first act, taking a 16-point lead in the middle of the second quarter (31-15).
The rest is much less festive since the players of Collet lived eight minutes without registering ONE basket.
bullet losses
TWENTY-ONE loss of ball... This is one of the black points of the French team in the competition.
The staff and the players have been pointing this out for several days and the tradition did not fail to call this Saturday noon.
With 21 ball losses, the French served on a silver platter easy points to the Turks who scored 36 points on these ball losses.
Approaching dangerously, the last matches of the competition, this kind of repeated errors will cost even more against Serbia or Italy.
