BASKETBALL The French were worried for 38 minutes …
France narrowly avoided a humiliating defeat against Romania (76-67) in the women Euro-2015 Basketball Sunday in Timisoara (Romania), but was not prepared its very important ideally appointment Monday against Montenegro.
The vice European champions, who beat Ukraine quite easily (79-55) and the Czech Republic (85- 75) in their first two matches, met unexpected resistance. Romania had lost its first two matches and appeared as one of the weakest teams of the Euro, which it disputes the finals for the first time since 2007. But, in a room not sounding for once not completely hollow , France was concerned for 38 minutes before finding the resources to silence Romanian unleashed.
Les Bleues have not appeared in the heads completely ready for battle they had to lead. They were beaten in aggression in the tackle by Romanian put in confidence by their external success. “We must respect the opponent, regretted Valérie Garnier, tricolor coach. In Euro, all teams are strong. We must change the mindset, stop defending reaction and be in the action. “
Romania succeeded first twenty minutes exceptional. These players who had scored only 66 points average on their first two matches to have 40 French irrelevant. Conducted at halftime (37-40), they continued to be disrupted by defensive changes in Romanian. They have long found ways at station 4, with Endi Miyem (14 points) and Sandrine Gruda (16 pts, 9 rebounds).
The situation became truly alarming when the Romanians, many more volunteers took 11-point lead (63-54, 31 ‘). But the Blues finished stronger (22-7 in the last quarter). Finally, they raised their defensive aggression and managed to fly at Romanian tired some balloons against converted by Paoline Salagnac saving (17 pts).
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