The president of ASVEL returns, for RMCSport, on the tumultuous departure of the international tricolor.
Tony Parker comes out of the silence. We had not yet heard the president of ASVEL comment on the aforementioned departure of Edwin Jackson. It’s done. The former star of the parquet floors is delivered within the framework of “ASVEL, the Series”, on RMC Sport. Uncompromising. Recall that Edwin Jackson, flagship recruit of Lyon-Villeurbanne last summer with Antoine Diot, was in the hard for many weeks. Difficulties that the 30-year-old tricolor international revealed publicly in an interview with Progress, February 8. “For me, it cannot continue like that,” he said, tackling his trainer Zvezdan Mitrovic in particular.
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The point of no return for “TP” even though it is close to Jackson in town. “I always put the good of the project first, he said in our columns at the end of 2019. If I have a friend who has the skills and who can help my club, I will favor him over another. But afterwards, it’s the same rules of the game. If you don’t perform well, if you don’t produce results, at the end of the day, for the good of the project, I will always favor the project because that will not change. not our friendship, you have to know how to separate things. ”
“Everyone can be frustrated but at some point there are things (that) you don’t say”
Tony Parker
The proof with the “Jackson case”. “My first reaction? Disappointed. Disappointed because I thought he was smarter than that and at this point in his career, you know very well that you don’t tell reporters what’s going on in a locker room. Everyone can be frustrated but at some point there are things (that) you don’t say, ”Parker asserts. And to add: “After for me, it was simple: there was not much to do. Once you do that, of course I’ll defend the coach. Because anyway, there is no one above the club, above the project. It will always be the most important. I always said that I wouldn’t have any qualms about it. For me the most important thing is the project and that we succeed. ”
Renowned for his rants and regularly expelled in recent weeks for having talked too much about the country to the referees, Mitrovic is also weakened. Certainly Parker defends him. With a little scratch in the process… “The coach is still someone important in our club. We did a double last season. And there wasn’t Edwin on the team last year… Of course it must be tiring sometimes to have someone scream. It takes rigor and discipline. But if you are not able to play for a coach like that, you change clubs, because we at ASVEL want to win titles. “
Back to the Estudiantes box
It will therefore not be with Edwin Jackson, quickly loaned to Estudiantes Madrid. “Not content with his playing time at ASVEL, Edwin Jackson expressed the wish to be loaned until the end of the season. The management of the club agreed to accede to his request, ”we learned, four days after the publication of the interview, in a communicated. “It went very quickly, details Tony Parker, always on RMC Sport. We got an offer from Madrid. I accepted because I was not going to block it at ASVEL. It has never been my style since I became president. So after, he left. ” A priori, not on bad terms. Jackson assured, in a tweet, to have “no problem” with “the management of the club” or the rest of the workforce.
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Charges Charles Kahudi, Adreian Payne, David Lighty and company to resume their march forward and continue their harvest of titles at the end of the season. In any case, they restarted the first in the Euroleague on Tuesday, with a victory against the Spaniards of Valencia (72-65) on the occasion of the 27e day. Before an Edwin Jackson return next summer? “That, we’ll see. He is on loan until the end of the season, notes Tony Parker. He still has three years of contract, so we’ll see. But it’s going to be difficult anyway. In view of what happened there, I don’t see how they are going to be able to get back to working together, him and Zvezdan Mitrovic. ” To see if the 50-year-old Serbian technician blood will still be in post at that time …
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