“Experience can’t be bought, you need to live it to build it”

Twelve months after Paris Silver Olympics 2024The French team deals with the following Eurobasket (27. August – 14. September), with many ambitions, but a little guarantee. BeforeFace Montenegro This Monday, the new coach, Freddy Faith, took over the supplies after the first week of preparation during the print point in Vendespace de Mouilleron-le-Captif, this week noon.

Guerschon Yabusele told us that he was very satisfied with the intensity put in training on this first week. Is that your case too?

Yes, it was one of our goals when they arrived at La Roche-sur-Ion because it is our biggest training block. We do a little “training camp” as we can live occasionally. From the beginning, it was requested to play players, intensity. With this rejuvenation group, some are trying to win their place – we had the right to actual training with great commitment. And that’s pretty positive.

You said during “Media Day” on Tuesday in introp, so you could go with four leaders of the match. How do you see this fight with four?

So, they’ve already proved it again this week, everyone has a very large level of basketball. And as at all training, one day is one that is good, one day it is the second thing that’s good. So, we won’t fix it today. It will simply be the best players, so we do the most complementary and best possible team, and especially with the style of the game we will want to produce. Four players, we’ll see, but maybe not. It is very complicated in the balance of the team.

“Friendly matches will have their significance”

What state of mind are you approaching Eurobasket?

With great demands and responsibilities, but this function of the selection and that this team must bring. We have inheraciousness to preserve. Now we have a new generation that comes. There are leaders who retired, are absent. I think we, I mean, much less margin than in the past. But I find that we are always competitive because there is a lot of players’ quality, with many less experience. And it’s something you have to consider and you. That’s why we play a lot, that friendly matches will have their own importance because experience is not buying, you need to live to build it. So, go there, there are a lot of unknowns, but we are always ambitious.

The European Championship is the international competition that, I mean, is the oldest. If we go to the end, we’ll have nine games for fifteen days. It’s a lot. It’s a long way, it will be interesting to live.

Finally, this is the appointment of Guerschon Yabusela as a Captain of the French team.

We talked about it with Boris (Diaw), but it’s my choice. I announced him and accepted quickly. I find that it corresponds to this position today. It’s old but not too much. It is between two generations. He already has experience, experience. He played in the Euroleague, he plays in the NBA, he knows a lot of rules, and especially he has this love for a jersey, because it talked a lot about it, he talked a lot about it. The Called Captain was more or less obvious. Vice-Captain? There are none for now.

Interview in Vendespace (Mouilleron-le-Captif)