“I didn’t even play!” The pivot of the France team Moustapha Fall is “frustrated” and unhappy with the low playing time granted by coach Vincent Collet during the World Basketball.
“It’s not even that we couldn’t see the Mouss Fall of Olympiakos, it’s that we didn’t see me at all. But that’s how it is… These are experiences that make you understand certain things,” Fall told the press on Saturday after the victory against Côte d’Ivoire (87-77).
“Yes, these are the coach’s choices (Vincent Collet, editor’s note). If there are questions to be asked, it is with him that we must see. Me, I was there. If he tells me to go home, I go. Otherwise, I’m not going. We have to respect the coach’s choices, that’s all,” he added.
Fall, replacing Rudy Gobert at the pivot position, played an average of four minutes in the first two matches, against Canada (65-95) then Latvia (86-88), before treading the floor more during the matches ranking against Iran (82-55) and Côte d’Ivoire. Victim of a toothache, he forfeited the last group match, without stake against Lebanon (85-79).
Therefore, he now, unlike previous international campaigns, “want to play again” quickly. “For example, after the Olympics, I was tired, I wanted a break. There, I’m so frustrated that I want to play, want to pick up my pace, want to regain confidence, want to get back in a good situation and forget what just happened, “said the player of the Olympiacos.
