Euro basketball 2022: the French team qualified in extremis for the quarter-finals

Round of 16 of the EuroBasket, Turkey-France, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany, September 10, 2022. ANNEGRET HILSE / REUTERS At the end of the suspense, the French basketball team went to get their qualification for the quarter-finals of the Euro basketball, Saturday, September 10, in Berlin, Germany. Olympic vice-champions in 2021, in Tokyo, the Blues beat Turkey after extra time by the smallest of the gaps, 87-86. The French will have trembled until a few seconds from the end of the match. However, they had got off to a very good start. They even had a fourteen-point lead just under three minutes from halftime (38-24), but the Turks picked up the score before the break (43-35). The third quarter was then catastrophic for the Blues who collapsed, conceding a 19-0, allowing the Turkish selection to take an eight-point lead (49-57). Read also: Euro basketball 2022: a sparkling Luka Doncic and Slovenia repel France While the chances of the French seemed tiny twelve seconds from regulation time, Cedi Osman’s errors on the free throw line, then on a bad pass , allowed a well-placed Rudy Gobert to snatch the extension of a furious dunk (77-77). RUDY GOBERT!!! #EuroBasket x #BringTheNoise 📺 https://t.co/XA74VljBO4 https://t.co/CBTWuYNBt6— EuroBasket (@#EuroBasket 2022) Off to a good start in overtime, five points clear at one minute and thirty seconds from the end (87-82), the French again saw Ergin Ataman’s players regain the upper hand and come back to a point. Until the Turks lost the ball to the French defense seconds from the final whistle, allowing the Blues to keep a small lead and win. In the quarter-finals, they will face either the Serbs or the Italians on Wednesday 14 September. The world