A month later having entrusted to be “undecided” on his participation in the next World Cup (August 25 – September 10) with the France team, Rudy Gobert was on the Boulogne-Levallois floor on Sunday for a reunion with Vincent Collet, coach of the Blues and coach of the Metropolitans 92, opposed to Cholet, his training club. The Minnesota center presented the season’s MVP trophy to Victor Wembanyama before sharing a long hug with Collet.
“We are not angry. I want him to come, I told him again. I told him that I was looking forward to it. We need him: we are in a straight line that includes the World Cup and goes to Paris 2024 (Olympic Games)”, reacted the coach of the France team, who had replied at the end of April to Gobert by uring that the triple best defender of the year in the NBA had ” need “ blue jersey “to make the best NBA season possible”.
Collet hopes to count on the pivot to work on his expected ociation with Wembanyama. ” When I saw them, what I thought was that they will be able to play together. If we add the one who is playing in Kaunas (Moustapha Fall, the pivot of Olympiakos), we have three players above 2.15m who are very strong, this is the strong point of the French team at the moment. I don’t want it to be diminished. The roster for the Worlds will be announced on June 28.