FIBA: France vs Croatia - - Sept 6, 2014 - - 11 AM CST

[ace3g]

Sat and Sunday will be full of sports.

[dabom]

thanks for putting date and time. i havent been keeping up but i wouldnt mind watching.

[Dex]

Boris gonna go 2.0 all over those Croatians.

[Dex]

Diaw 0/4 to start, France looks rattled. Down 4 early as a result, 5-9 3:44 1st.

[Dex]

5-13 now. France surrendering already. :rolleyes

[jyra]

Pretty nice to be only down 4 with Diaw and Batum struggling shooting the ball.

[Chinook]

I like Gobert. If I recall correctly, the Jazz essentially bought that pick from Denver. It would have been nice to pick him up for pretty much nothing. But I like Jean-Charles a lot as well, so I'm not too broken up about it.

[Dex]

Strong 2nd quarter by France. Up 1 at the half.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

France struggling to create without Tony, but defence looks quite good.

[jyra]

If LJC can turn into a better scoring version of Florent Pietrus it would make me quite happy. I just love that combination of defensive versatility and great energy.

[spursparker9]

Is LJC playing in this tournament?

[Chinook]

Is LJC playing in this tournament?

Nope. Doubt he gets on the big team for a few years.

[ace3g]

Fournier playing really well

[Hemotivo]

Fournier dominating

[Hemotivo]

game over; FRA wins

[ace3g]

Tomic is a monster down low right now

[Chinook]

^Was thinking exactly that. The French centers are hardly world-beaters, but still.

[ace3g]

Hot chick alert

[Hemotivo]

Hot chick alert

:clap

[ace3g]

Gelabale with another big 3

[ace3g]

damn Diaw almost had the block

[testies]

OH shit

[ace3g]

2 pt game now...

[spursparker9]

2 point game lol

[Hemotivo]

wow
wtf FRANCE

[Chinook]

Awesome.

[Dex]

Croatia making an impressive run at it.

[testies]

what a horrible shot

[ace3g]

terrible shot

[Hemotivo]

lol spaniards don't want FRA

[Dex]

Clutch FTs for France.

[Chinook]

Live by the three, die by the three.

[ace3g]

1
2
3
4
T


FRA
7
16
23
23
69


CRO
15
7
12
30
64

[ace3g]

STARTERS
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
OFF
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PF
PTS


Nicolas Batum, F
5-13
0-6
4-6
0
2
0
4
1
1
2
14


Mickael Gelabale, F
4-7
3-3
0-0
1
6
0
0
0
3
1
11


Thomas Heurtel, G
3-5
1-1
3-4
0
0
4
0
0
3
2
10


Joffrey Lauvergne, C
3-6
1-1
1-2
0
2
1
0
0
1
3
8


Boris Diaw, F
1-7
1-2
0-0
0
5
4
0
1
4
2
3


BENCH
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
OFF
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PF
PTS


Evan Fournier, G
5-10
1-5
2-4
0
4
1
0
0
1
1
13


Florent Pietrus, F
2-2
0-0
2-2
2
4
0
0
1
0
1
6


Antoine Diot, G
1-3
0-2
0-0
0
2
3
1
0
1
2
2


Rudy Gobert, C
1-1
0-0
0-0
0
4
0
0
2
1
2
2


Edwin Jackson, F
0-2
0-2
0-0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0


TOTALS
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
OFF
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PF
PTS



25-56
7-22
12-18
5
35
13
5
5
15
16
69

[jyra]

Too bad France plays Spain in the next round. Still a good win against really talented Croatian team.

[Brazil]

Messy game tbh but I will take it especially a diaw struggling

next objective is to not lose by 20 vs Spain

[ace3g]

If LJC can turn into a better scoring version of Florent Pietrus it would make me quite happy. I just love that combination of defensive versatility and great energy.


Is LJC playing in this tournament?


Nope. Doubt he gets on the big team for a few years.

Speaking of him

Pedja Materic @PedjaMateric
(https://twitter.com/PedjaMateric)Good game of Livio Jean-Charles @Jclifio (https://twitter.com/Jclifio/) : 14p, 5rbd in 20min in a win of @ASVEL_Basket (https://twitter.com/ASVEL_Basket/) over Bourg-en-Bresse #hesback (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hesback) #healthy (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23healthy) #future (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23future)

[Chinook]

Thanks for the update, Ace. Excited to see Jean-Charles in 2015.

[Baam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8-RrUHvZU

Boris stars in number 2 with the assist and number 3 with the block :tu