After the announcement of the postponement of the Euroleague match scheduled for this Thursday, due to the many absentees on the Parisian side, the French international playing for Olympiakos displayed his incomprehension.
Evan Fournier has it bad. A few hours after the announcement of the postponement of the Euroleague poster initially scheduled for this Thursday between Paris Basketball and Fenerbahçe, due to the impossibility for the Parisian club “to have a minimum of eight players registered” – the French international now playing for Olympiakos reacted to the news on his X account. And his opinion is rather clear.
«All teams face illnesses and injuries every day. If you can’t field enough players, you should have a lost match, writes, in English, the Olympic vice-champion with the French team. By canceling a match, you are potentially allowing teams to game the rules and that becomes dangerous. This is just my opinion.”
Paris and Olympiakos in the fight
At the heart of an overloaded schedule, Paris Basketball, currently 2nd in the Euroleague rankings, deplored this Thursday a significant number of players not “fit to play due to injury or illness. Among them, star TJ Shorts but also Yakuba Ouattara, Michael Kessens and Enzo Shahrvin.
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In the fight with the French clubs at the top of the European competition, Fournier’s Olympiakos will play again this Friday against Alba Berlin after dismissing Virtus Bologna (87-77) on Wednesday. The Greek team, 3rd in the standings, had also given in on its floor on December 6 against the Parisians (90-96), in much better physical conditions at the time.
