The perennial question is the development of young players. How can a EuroLeague team, fighting for the top, develop a young player?
“They have to be really good. There are few of them, and there will be even fewer, and that’s a big problem for European basketball. All these people and young players who have these high expectations but don’t have the level to have a role like Doncic or Jokic. It’s very difficult to find.
I can take, for example, Wembanyama through France last year. I don’t know if he would have had the same status there as he did or if he had played with us. I would have believed in him, but I don’t know if I would have satisfied him, since he’s not the easiest.
This year in Bourg, we have Zaccharie Risacher, who is a great talent, and they also predict that he will be in the top 10 in the draft. So, one less, and they leave every year. That reproduction isn’t quite large enough for you to be able to think about someone and give them what is said to be the keys to the team and have them lead you somewhere, especially someone who has such high expectations. I think the team has to be so good to tolerate one player, maybe two, at most, but very few teams do that.”