French National Team '11

[Grinder]

Head coach Vincent Collet just announced the French squad that will compete in this summer's Eurobasket. This is the deepest roster France has had in a while and is stacked more than usual in terms of NBA players and sheer talent.


Tony Parker / Antoine Diot / Yannick Bokolo
Mickael Pietrus / Nando De Colo
Nicolas Batum / Mickael Gelabale
Boris Diaw / Ali Traore / Florent Pietrus
Joakim Noah / Ronny Turiaf

Alternates: Kevin Seraphin, Andrew Albicy, Fabien Causeur

All but four players have NBA experience and Nando De Colo's rights are held by the Spurs. Should be interesting to see these guys against Spain, Russia, Turkey, and Greece.

[Laimbeer_Rodman]

They are in group with Lithuania,Serbia,Germany,Italy and Israel.
France needs to win @least 2 games to get to Spain ,Russia,Turkey or whoever

[chains5000]

De Colo should be a starter, he's a good player.

[Done_And_Done]

Wasn't Mahinmi born in France as well?

[Grinder]

They are in group with Lithuania,Serbia,Germany,Italy and Israel.
France needs to win @least 2 games to get to Spain ,Russia,Turkey or whoever

They'll beat Israel and Italy.

De Colo should be a starter, he's a good player.

There's two sides to the court and De Colo only plays one of them. His defense blows. He's best suited to being a facilitator/scorer off the bench.

[Laimbeer_Rodman]

they are in group with Latvia ,not Lithuania ,my bad ,that changes a lot

[chains5000]

There's two sides to the court and De Colo only plays one of them. His defense blows. He's best suited to being a facilitator/scorer off the bench.

You may be right, I just like his game much

[fefe]

Where is Rodrigue Beaubois?

[chains5000]

Where is Rodrigue Beaubois?

Isn't he injured?

[Done_And_Done]

Yea Roddy is on the dl, hence his absence in this years playoffs...

[DRoseOwnsACamry]

Damn, that's a deep roster. They're going to win.

[Jasi]

Is there a Euro 2011 official thread somewhere?

[chains5000]

Damn, that's a deep roster. They're going to win.

Spain or Greece will win.
Book it

[chains5000]

Is there a Euro 2011 official thread somewhere?

Don't think so, too early IMO

[Grinder]

Russia and Turkey look good too.

Russia's gonna have Holden, Kirilenko, Kaun, Mozgov, Vorontsevich, and Khryapa.

Turkey will have Onan, Ilyasova, Turkoglou, Asik, Kanter, and Savas.

Serbia will be a threat as always.

Greece won't have Diamantidis and Bourousis.