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| Host City: Kayseri | ||
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| TEAM | W/L | P |
| 1. Serbia | 4/1 | 9 |
| 2. Argentina | 4/1 | 9 |
| 3. Australia | 3/2 | 8 |
| 4. Angola | 2/3 | 7 |
| 5. Germany | 2/3 | 7 |
| 6. Jordan | 0/5 | 5 |
| Host City: Istanbul | ||
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| TEAM | W/L | P |
| 1. USA | 5/0 | 10 |
| 2. Slovenia | 4/1 | 9 |
| 3. Brazil | 3/2 | 8 |
| 4. Croatia | 2/3 | 7 |
| 5. Iran | 1/4 | 6 |
| 6. Tunisia | 0/5 | 5 |
| Host City: Ankara | ||
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| TEAM | W/L | P |
| 1. Turkey | 5/0 | 10 |
| 2. Russia | 4/1 | 9 |
| 3. Greece | 3/2 | 8 |
| 4. China | 1/4 | 6 |
| 5. Puerto Rico | 1/4 | 6 |
| 6. Cote d'Ivoire | 1/4 | 6 |
| Host City: Izmir | ||
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| TEAM | W/L | P |
| 1. Lithuania | 5/0 | 10 |
| 2. Spain | 3/2 | 8 |
| 3. New Zealand | 3/2 | 8 |
| 4. France | 3/2 | 8 |
| 5. Lebanon | 1/4 | 6 |
| 6. Canada | 0/5 | 5 |




| # | Name | P | Height | DOB | Place Of Birth | Club |
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| 4 |
Andrew ALBICY |
G | 178cm
5'10" |
21/03/1990 | Sèvres, France | Paris-Levallois Basket, Pro A (FRA) |
| 5 |
Nicolas BATUM |
SF | 203cm
6'8" |
14/12/1988 | Lisieux, France | Portland Trail Blazers, NBA (USA) |
| 6 |
Fabien CAUSEUR |
G | 193cm
6'4" |
16/06/1987 | Brest, France | Le Havre, Pro A (FRA) |
| 7 |
Alain KOFFI |
F/C | 207cm
6'9" |
23/11/1983 | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire | DKV Joventut, ACB (ESP) |
| 8 |
Ian MAHINMI |
F/C | 211cm
6'11" |
05/11/1986 | Rouen, France | Dallas Mavericks, NBA (USA) |
| 9 |
Edwin JACKSON |
G | 190cm
6'3" |
18/09/1989 | Pau, France | Asvel, Pro A (FRA) |
| 10 |
Yannick BOKOLO |
G | 191cm
6'3" |
19/06/1985 | Kinshasa, Dem.Rep. of Congo | Gravelines Dunkerque, Pro A (FRA) |
| 11 |
Florent PIETRUS |
F | 202cm
6'8" |
19/01/1981 | Les Abymes , Guatemala | Valencia, ACB (ESP) |
| 12 |
Nando DE COLO |
G | 196cm
6'5" |
23/06/1987 | Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras, France | Valencia, ACB (ESP) |
| 13 |
Boris DIAW |
F | 203cm
6'8" |
16/04/1982 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France | Bobcats, NBA (USA) |
| 14 |
Mickael GELABALE |
F | 201cm
6'7" |
22/05/1983 | Pointe Noire, France | Cholet Basket, ProA (FRA) |
| 15 |
Ali TRAORE |
C | 208cm
6'10" |
28/02/1985 | Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire | Virtus Roma, Seria A (ITA) |
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After a very strange experience with Michel Gomez - a former great coach but who had not coached at pro-level for almost a decade, Vincent Collet's nomination as the head coach of the French National Team in March 2009 appeared to be self-evident for most French basketball fans.
Although, reservations were made about the strange situation where Collet would be the head coach of Tony Parker in the national team, while Parker would be his boss, as the vice president of ASVEL, in which he invested in February 2009.
But apart from this unlikely situation, "Les Bleus", who suffered from a lack of offensive chemistry in previous years have really profited from the science of the game which "game freak" and "match teacher" Collet brings to the table.
Vincent was a more than decent pro-player in the 80s and 90s, a great shooter who just lacked the athleticism to make it to the national team.
He started his coaching career with former national team coach, Alain Weisz, in Le Mans, in 1998.
He took over the head coaching job two years later, when Weisz left to coach the National Team. Since then, he has won two French Championships (2006, 2009), two Semaine des As (the French Copa del Rey, in 2006 and 2010) and a French Cup (2004) and was named coach of the year in 2001 and 2004.
However, Collet has had a tough time with ASVEL over the past season.
Debatable recruiting choices and his absence during the pre-season (because of his head coaching job with the National Team) led to a terrible start for the richest club team in France, ASVEL, who won the Semaine des As in February but eventually missed out on the play-offs. Collet had high expectations for France this summer, but the likely absences of Tony Parker, Noah, Turiaf and Mike Piétrus will be very tough to deal with.
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FRANCE (FRA)| FG | 2pts | 3pts | FT | Rbds | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name | G | Min | M/A | % | M/A | % | M/A | % | M/A | % | O | D | Tot | As | PF | To | St | BS | Pts | ||||||
| N. Batum | 6 | 171 | 24/56 | 42.9 | 15/28 | 53.6 | 9/28 | 32.1 | 18/25 | 72 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 75 | ||||||
| M. Gelabale | 6 | 161 | 23/40 | 57.5 | 13/22 | 59.1 | 10/18 | 55.6 | 11/12 | 91.7 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 67 | ||||||
| N. De Colo | 6 | 135 | 18/37 | 48.6 | 9/16 | 56.2 | 9/21 | 42.9 | 8/8 | 100 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 53 | ||||||
| B. Diaw | 6 | 179 | 20/51 | 39.2 | 13/29 | 44.8 | 7/22 | 31.8 | 4/7 | 57.1 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 22 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 51 | ||||||
| A. Koffi | 6 | 116 | 16/28 | 57.1 | 16/28 | 57.1 | 0/0 | 0 | 19/25 | 76 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 51 | ||||||
| A. Traore | 6 | 76 | 14/31 | 45.2 | 14/31 | 45.2 | 0/0 | 0 | 4/11 | 36.4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 32 | ||||||
| Y. Bokolo | 6 | 102 | 8/23 | 34.8 | 4/10 | 40 | 4/13 | 30.8 | 7/12 | 58.3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | ||||||
| I. Mahinmi | 6 | 78 | 9/14 | 64.3 | 9/14 | 64.3 | 0/0 | 0 | 9/10 | 90 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 27 | ||||||
| A. Albicy | 6 | 63 | 5/12 | 41.7 | 1/5 | 20 | 4/7 | 57.1 | 5/7 | 71.4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | ||||||
| F. Pietrus | 4 | 87 | 4/14 | 28.6 | 4/12 | 33.3 | 0/2 | 0 | 10/10 | 100 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
| E. Jackson | 6 | 24 | 2/7 | 28.6 | 1/2 | 50 | 1/5 | 20 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| F. Causeur | 3 | 11 | 1/3 | 33.3 | 0/0 | 0 | 1/3 | 33.3 | 0/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Team/Coaches: | 9 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS: | 1203 | 144/316 | 45.6 | 99/197 | 50.3 | 45/119 | 37.8 | 95/129 | 73.6 | 54 | 136 | 190 | 94 | 125 | 97 | 42 | 18 | 428 | |||||||
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| Min | Minutes played | Tot | Total rebounds | BS | Block Shots |
| M/A | Made/Attempts | As | Assists | Pts | Points |
| % | Shooting percentage | PF | Personal fouls | G | Played Games |
| O | Offensive rebounds | To | Turnovers | ||
| D | Defensive rebounds | St | Steals | ||
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France
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71,3
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PPG |
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31,7
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RPG |
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9
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ORPG |
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22,7
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DRPG |
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15,7
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ASPG |
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50,3%
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FG2P |
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37,8%
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FG3P |
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73,6%
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FT |
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Will the “eternal potential” of France ever be seen?
With Tony Parker, Joakim Noah, Mike Piétrus and Ronny Turiaf, France would have had a good chance to play for the podium. However, by mid-July, three of those four had bailed out and Noah was very likely to do the same. Now some youngsters are coming along. So how good will France actually be?
Since EuroBasket 1999 – played at home and ended on two “no shows” both during the semi-final and during the Bronze medal game – France has made a habit of missing great opportunities, blossoming for good and helping basketball develop in a country where competition between sports is as tough as anywhere else. Why is this? Well simply because French hoops has to compete with rugby (a sport unknown almost anywhere else), handball, and some huge events such as the Tour de France or Roland Garros in tennis, before even mentioning football.
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Popular enthusiasm and following of the Franch National Team has on occasion been held back by sheer bad luck, as was the case during the 2000 Olympic Games, when Antoine Rigaudeau and his team-mates won silver, receiving the biggest TV viewing figures of the event. The only problem was that those Olympics were in Sydney, Australia, so the final game versus the Dream Team, at 3am was seen by 800,000 sports fans, while there could have been up to 15 million had the game been played in the daytime or evening.
Now, 10 years on, France is still talking about the potential basketball powerhouse they could become, with its 20 players drafted by NBA franchises and dozen or so guys under contract in the world’s top flight league. Using the great 1982 born ‘golden generation’ (Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, Mike Piétrus etc.), France came close to matching Lithuania in the EuroBasket 2003 semis before losing. Leading Greece by seven points with 40 seconds to go in the same Championship two years later, again in the semis, les ‘Bleus’ were beaten by a last second Dimitris Diamantidis shot. Their bad fortune can also be summed up by EuroBasket 2009 during which they lost only once, albeit to eventual champions Spain. Since 2003, France has always fallen to the eventual champion - Lithuania in 2003, Greece in 2005, Russia in 2007 and Spain last summer.
Ahead of this summer’s FIBA World Championship, France is facing the prospect of playing without a number of key players missing – as are the tournament’s main contenders. Indeed France, who could have come for the first time with a very performing point guard-center tandem of All-Star Parker and Noah, will have to do without both of them in Turkey. Although this is somewhat understandable, following the soccer National Team’s farcical football World Cup, basketball in France could have gained much had charismatic players like Parker and Noah competed in Turkey. It’s just too bad for French basketball that it will probably not happen.
Focusing on those who will be present, there was some good news. Dallas’ combo guard, Rodrigue Beaubois, proved this season, via his sublime 40-point performance against Minnesota that he has every chance of becoming the “new TP”. But the bad news came quickly, since Beaubois broke his foot early in preparation and is now out for the whole summer. Coach Collet called Andrew Albicy, the 20-year-old MVP of the U20 European Championship this summer, to replace Rodrigue.
Nicolas Batum, in Portland, was injured for part of the season but he was so good that when he came back, that he pushed Rudy Fernandez, a European basketball superstar, further down the bench than expected. At the guard, Nando De Colo has had an impressive first year in Liga ACB and Yannick Bokolo, a combo guard from Gravelines, can help.
Waiting in the wings is former Sonic, Mike Gelabale, who is enjoying a good comeback. Boris Diaw, from Charlotte, is also always there for the National Team but he is increasingly becoming a power forward rather than a “3”. Who are we missing? Mike Piétrus, who has gained a reputation for providing very good excuses for not coming.
France’s force could therefore for once be in the paint where they have three NBA players to use - Ajinça, Mahinmi or Petro. The only problem is that those three have not played hoops these past years and Vincent Collet would certainly love to be able to use inside players who actually play some basketball, such as Ali Traoré, who just transferred from ASVEL to Virtus Roma.
So what can we expect from France? Its difficult to say. Once more, the potential is there – but how high can this potential bring them? The first games of preparation, with two large losses versus Canada in Toronto, made all observers quite worried…
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| # | Name | P |
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| 4 | Andrew Albicy | G |
| 5 | Nicolas Batum | SF |
| 6 | Fabien Causeur | G |
| 7 | Alain Koffi | F/C |
| 8 | Ian Mahinmi | F/C |
| 9 | Edwin Jackson | G |
| 10 | Yannick Bokolo | G |
| 11 | Florent Pietrus | F |
| 12 | Nando De Colo | G |
| 13 | Boris Diaw | F |
| 14 | Mickael Gelabale | F |
| 15 | Ali Traore | C |
Head coach: Vincent COLLET



