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Exactly day left before the quarterfinal match between Russia and France. Our team has a day of rest, while the French now have to actually play a friendly match with Turkey. Head coach Claude Berge our opponents have said that his players need to spend as little energy in this game. However, the captain of the French player, “Phoenix Suns' Boris Diao, well aware of the pressures in the NBA, has warned its partners that the three days without a game badly affect the game tone commands. France played their previous match against Lithuania, September 10, knowing his resignation to the quarterfinals. Berger gave a lot of time off during the second half of the game, Tony Parker and leaders Diao. Lithuanians defeated his rival, 88:73. This defeat was the second to France in the tournament – the first they have suffered in the last seconds of the Slovenes, confidently leading the score during the match.

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statistics. 92:56 – with such a crushing score of Russians lost the French in a friendly match at the Paris tournament in August. The outcome of the match was decided in the first quarter, the French look down harder, and almost all of them falling far achieved the goal. Guard team MVP Tony Parker NBA finals then scored a modest 12 points. As part of this same Eurobasket Parker is second in scoring player of the tournament (22.2 points per game, attacking with 48% accuracy). But the Russian team is very efficient at recruiting – at Andrei Kirilenko 9.7 rebounds per game, Viktor Khryapa 7.7. In addition, tandem Khryapa – Kirilenko is the best game on defense, which confirms the statistics.

Unfortunately, there is a tandem and a negative point – an average of 5.3 losses per game, plus problems with fouls in Khryapa. The French can offer speed – Berger uses very little on the court someone from the pivot – Frederick Weiss or Ronnie Turiafa. As rightly pointed out the French sniper in an interview with Tariq Kirksey L'Equipe, its pivot team play without proper aggressiveness and focus on the ring, and without them the team is much faster and more combines in the attack. Berger is likely to make a bet on low-speed part of what David Blatt can answer emphatically without Alexei Savrasenko and even Nikita Morgunov.

Elevich Sergei, a former coach of Russia, spoke about the future opponent this way: “I do not think France – uncomfortable team, we can play with her. The tournament is long and leaders of their teams is a little tired: Parker before (to Lithuania – approx.) Scored a little, however, gave good transfer. ” Claude Berge after losing a match against Lithuania complained that the French have failed to establish the game in attack, to diversify its unexpected contender for the elements, but instead they relied only on Parker. For the first time in the tournament in that match against the French playmaker was used tactics ambushes or traps, when Parker opened in front of the only passage where it is on both sides were waiting for the Lithuanian powerful blocker.

Berger was unable to find an antidote to this technique and put him in the end of Parker on the bench. Confront Parker in a match with Russia, will no doubt John Holden – the main defensive specialist among our bekkorta. A key opposition Holden – Parker will be decisive for the outcome of the match. Most domestic coach believes in the success of Russia, among them president of the Russian Basketball Federation Sergey Chernov: “Our team has a very good mood. They play on the good emotions. In addition, the defeat we suffered against the French in a friendly tournament in Paris, can play havoc with an opponent. The French are unlikely to forget how easy they were our defenses, and, faced with quite a different defense, may falter. ” We can only wish our team success in tomorrow's match.

Stanislav Tyutyunnik, Sport . ru < / b>