France-Slovenia was the game of the tourney.
After a quiet 1st half of mostly passing, Fournier shot pretty well in the 2nd half. But De Colo was the main scorer. I liked early 4Q, Slovenia cut a 10 point lead down to 1 and Fournier rattled off 5 straight points (the first was an extremely wide open 3). At times, Fournier's stroke looks gorgeous.
France up 5 with under a minute left, a Slovenian blows by Fournier who fouls.
After FT's, a 4 point French lead, Fournier gets it across halfcourt and dribbles in place to use clock, then with 15 on the shot clock, he just barrels through a Slovenian, pushing off to make the offensive foul extremely clear. Just a hugely boneheaded play. Slovenia hits a 3 and suddenly it's a one point lead. And that was Fournier's 5th foul to boot, so he's booted. France's leading scorer takes himself out of the game and gives Slovenia life.
Incredibly, two games in a row, Fournier made a boneheaded offensive play with 44 seconds left. If Batum doesn't block the last second layup, Fournier would've been the goat. Now Fournier shouldn't be playing mock-PG. But that's what happens when your team has Franc.
Also, Gobert with France up 2 and 1:30 left missed a pair of FT's (after missing a pair of layups). Next play Gobert catches the ball on the move, runs into a double team, and makes a terrific kickout pass for a wide open De Colo 3, to put France up 5. I didn't know Rudy could make such a pass/find. Gobert really struggled with FT's in the gold medal game, which would have been closer if GoBear just canned his FT's.
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