Without Nicolas Batum and Nando De Colo, the Blues must reinvent themselves

You miss two beings and everything is depopulated? This is the question that the Blues, deprived of Nicolas Batum (33 years old) and Nando De Colo (35 years old), will have to answer at EuroBasket 2022 (from 1^er to September 18), in Germany. Two frames that “weigh”. 340 selections to them from them, barely less than all of the 13 players remaining at Vincent Collet’s disposal after the packages of Andrew Albicy, Moustapha Fall, Frank Ntilikina
and Victor Wembanyama, and accounted for almost a quarter of the French team’s playing time at the Tokyo Olympics last year.

Two players who preferred to give up on the selection this summer for both family and physical reasons in order to preserve themselves for the 2023 World Cup and the Paris Olympics in 2024. The first has just returned to the Clippers (NBA) after a season in which he “physically struggled“, while the second made a commitment this summer in favor of Asvelwhere… Batum also officiates as director of operations…