It’s the stink bomb of this Saturday: hit in the thigh against Lithuania, Frank Ntilikina is forfeited for the 2023 World Cup.
Irony a bit crappy than the one that strikes Frank Ntilikina. August 12, 2022, top page on the TrashTalk.co website: “Frank Ntilikina forfeits for EuroBasket 2022: the French team loses a new soldier before the big deadline in September”. A year later, for the anniversary of this sad package, the leader of the France team… is declared out for the 2023 World Cup. No valve, Frank has thigh injury last night during the trip of the Blues to Vilnius. The fault at the end of the very disputed match, while the French team led by “only” seven points with 3 minutes remaining.
This is the bad news of this prep: Frank Ntilikina will not be recovered from this injury in time. He is forfeited for the World Cup, another player will be called to replace him in the French team @FRABasketball #nbaextra pic.twitter.com/X93WUYjo7i
— Remi Reverchon (@SoFrenchProd) August 12, 2023
It is therefore a second consecutive package for the new player of the Charlotte Hornets. “His thigh injury does not guarantee a satisfactory recovery in time for the start of the World Cup on Friday August 25. The technical and medical staff have decided by mutual agreement not to keep Frank Ntilikina in the workforce., communicated the FFBB. It sucks, and Vincent Collet finds himself in a situation he knows all too well: who to replace his energizer 25 years old? On an intrinsic level, Killian Hayes has defensive qualities that are similar to those presented by Ntilikina. Review the guard of the Detroit Pistons in his works in FIBA format would bring back great memories. In the blue jersey, he was elected MVP of EuroBasket U16. It dates back to 2017. It’s as old as the world. But it was on European pitches that his attacking qualities first stood out. He is therefore one of the credible candidates to replace Frank, with Andrew AlbicyMatthew Strazel and – why not – Hugo Benitez, Joel Ayayi or Nadir Hifi.
2023-08-12 13:52:00
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