From October last year
I'm Ok with it knowing its gonna be a process if i'm being honest, he and Bilal have a lot of work to do. Right now they are one way players and very rough with very little volume offensively.
Been watching the france run up to the olympics game and the last game against canada they were sagging off Bilal at the three point line. Turiaf says the coach got on Bilal to punish that. But he hasn't and I don't know if it's a thing but he hasn't been starting lately. Also they were doing what I've been saying happens to Bilal. He'll guard the top scorer ( in this case SGA and Patty Mills at point of attack) They will if he's too much screen him off and go to work against the new switch. Then get back on defense and fake defend Bilal who's standing on the corner doing nothing but sometimes lifting a little bit to maybe recieve open passes. But swings are never made to him. He and Fournier had miscommunications where Fournier would pass to the corner as a bail out while Bilal has lifted.
Teams end up playing against four players on offense and resting their main scorer on him. Throw Sarr in there and now we got two guys on offense moving the ball but not attacking or taking a high volume. The positive note is a lot of times Bilal coincided with a strong defensive push, semi forced turnovers, triggers.
It's gonna be an interesting Journey. I have to remind myself how its only the beginning and necessary to start from the ground up. Sarr just turned 19 in April. Bub just turned 19. Bilal is still 19 turning 20 in four days.. Kyshawn actually the oldest. Already they have shown signs they can be world class on defense and show that theya re good ball movers. Sarr btw outside of his shot, blocked a lot of shots at a high rate, deterrred others, presence was disruptive, rebounded at a decent rate, passed well.
With a group of coaches whose primary strength is development, and a group of intelligent guys who are workers with athleticism and youth. I'm curious to see how this turns out. I also take the approach they have to building an organisation the same type of approach that should be had when it comes to self improvement.
Second unit got all the spacers. Poole, Kispert, PBJ, Tristan.
