PAfter discovering the factory of champions, where a large part of the best French people in history have passed (Tony Parker, Evan Fournier, etc.), Jonas Boulefaa has been learning accelerated since the start of the school year at INSEP (Institut National du Sport , Expertise and Performance).
Following in the footsteps of Villeneuvois Ousmane Dieng, announced in the Top 15…
PAfter discovering the factory of champions, where a large part of the best French people in history have passed (Tony Parker, Evan Fournier, etc.), Jonas Boulefaa has been learning accelerated since the start of the school year at INSEP (Institut National du Sport , Expertise and Performance).
Following in the footsteps of Villeneuvois Ousmane Dieng, announced in the Top 15 of the NBA Draft next year, Lot-et-Garonnais had a brilliant first part of the season, both collectively, where his team from the Pôle France in U18 did not lose a game, only on a personal level: “It’s going pretty well. I managed to adapt very quickly to this new mode of operation between lessons and basketball sessions. It’s a rhythm to take, you must above all rest well, pay attention to your body and repeat your efforts constantly. »
Coach’s praise
Gone is the cocoon of the Mont-de-Marsan pole and the seasons in U15 Elite with Layrac-Astaffort, make way for what is done best in its age category (2007) with the Pôle France: “Training with the best players of my generation, it is only beneficial”. At just 15 years old – he has just celebrated them on January 16 – this already tall profile (2m02), who arrived in the heart of the Bois de Vincennes a year in advance, seems to have already had a advance, according to his trainer Bernard Faure: “Each year, when we can bring young people in earlier, we do not hesitate. Jonas is someone very serious in the approach to training, but not only. He is also and above all someone who is curious and who is fully invested in his sports and school project. By his precocity and his athletic dimensions, he had nothing more to do in U15. »
“By his precocity and his athletic dimensions, he had nothing more to do in U15”
This position 3 has already won over observers with its maturity and size, even if a minor injury affected its progress at the end of last year: “He started the season well, but his sprained thumb was a little repercussion of its evolution. In the year, there are different dynamics and it is normal to accumulate fatigue and to have less good shots, ”sums up his coach at the Pôle France. His close guard – his father Kader, former emblematic player of Garonne AB and his ex-educator Jérôme Vatin – keeps a watchful eye on his development: “I am happy that he is achieving one of his first objectives”, notes his father, who at 39 is still on the court, today in the Pre-National with Layrac / Astaffort.
A basketball fanatic
Passionate about basketball since his first steps at the age of three at the Garonne ASPTT Basket-Club, Jonas Boulefaa watches all the basketball matches as soon as his schedule allows him: “Between the Betclic Élite, the Euroleague and the NBA, I try to look at all levels and learn from them. “His next challenges announce the color:” I want to win the U18 title with my team this year, consolidate my place in the France U16 team, become a professional and one day succeed in going to the NBA. »
The native of Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan has, in fact, plenty of challenges ahead, the next short term of which could be to find a place in the NM1 team. The reward for a job well done in general: “It has a bright future ahead of it, but we must constantly confirm it. He must progress further in the explosiveness and work on the physique, ”concludes Bernard Faure. We understood that at INSEP, nothing is ever a foregone conclusion, but Jonas Boulefaa is clearly on the right track.
