Yabusele is a major player on the best Euroleague team and is often the best player in the French team. French team which, for twenty years, has been a nightmare to watch play. A guard brings the ball on the court, stops his dribble at the logo and waits for another player to ask for the ball after fifty screens. And since he takes fifty screens and the point guard has been following him with his eyes for ten seconds, the entire defense perfectly read who the pass was intended for. It is impossible for the point guard to pass the ball, and as he can no longer dribble, the defenders climb high on him, and the team loses the ball. This is the game system reproduced on more than half of the French team's plays for twenty years. And we wonder why this team has never won. The problem isn't Yabusele, it's the idiot who coaches the team. The aim of such a game logic is to pass the ball. So French: we set the table. Forbidden to shoot. Players who shoot in first intention or who take an open shot with less than ten seconds in the possession return to the summer league. And that's precisely what the best French player did this evening: Nadir Hifi, who actually plays for the Wolves. He goes up the ball, he doesn't stop his dribble, he shoots if he's open, he attacks, and he defends like a dog. Everything Collet hates. Roughly speaking, the French team's game for twenty years has been to ask Sochan to play PG and deliver passes to Boris Diaw or Nicolas Batum on the elbow from the logo with his feet stopped. And Boris and Nico never get the ball. "Why it doesn't work, I don't understand. I asked the players to pass the ball, but the ball never get at the 15th stage of my smart play and after all five players proved they can pass the ball first instead of being selfish dunking the ball if they're alone in the paint with no one around." Yes, this is not who we are, the ball doesn't circulate when you play standing and don't attack defense first with dribbles. And yes, you don't win a game when you refuse to raise your arms to shoot. If the cliché that the French don't shave their armpits persists, it's because we've never seen a French player show his armpits in a basketball game. Hands up! "Garçon, un café s'il vous plaît ! - Here I come."
No Hifi, no game. Even Victor played badly trying guard stuff with three defensers around.
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hard anytime a US journalist like Windhorst talk about Collet as "the equivalent of Pop" 