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I suppose that depends on what you're expecting. If you're expecting him to come in and be a threat to be a double/double that seems doubtful this year and maybe ever. To me he's playing a similar role on that French team that he would here where he's an afterthought on offense but does have some posts moves and isn't afraid to shoot. What I would worry about is the defensive end. He's no threat to block a shot. Perhaps that will be mitigated by Doc's defense of packing the lane but he's not really stopping anyone who gets into the paint. Is he a poor rebounder or is he deferring to the better rebounders on this French team? Seems more like the former as he doesn't win a lot of one-on-one battles. He has a big body, seems to have a good basketball IQ, seems to play hard, and still super young. If we're lucky he's an under the rim Leslee Smith without the injuries. To me he seems like our backup center who plays 10-15 minutes a game and hopefully he grows skills-wise to make up for his lack of explosiveness. I think if he had been practicing with the rest of the team in front of Rothstein that Jon wouldn't have listed him as a starter though I could be very wrong about all of this.

France pulls it out and because they're French they score on a breakaway dunk to run up the score at the end. 62-53 They play Turkey tomorrow at 8:45 Draogo Q1 6:04 to 4:21 Q2 6:33 to 3:55 Q3 1:08 to Q4 0:15 0 pts on 0-1 shooting, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 fouls

Good to see someone else is along for this hard to watch ride. Draogo sets a liberté moving screen that every B1G ref could feel to free up a teammate. France up 3 with :33 to go.

Draogo finally back in with 1 minute left in the 3rd. Croatia hits a big 3 at the end up the quarter in this brickfest. They're up 41-38.

Draogo struggling and so is France. Big D got pulled after 3 minutes on the court after hedging on a guy up top and his man beating him with an open look from 3 (It was the 2nd time in a row a guy had scored on him) In the 2nd quarter he came in and picked up a few cheap fouls and got autobenched. He has 4:20 minutes of play with a rebound and 2 fouls. France has been doing their typical pressure defense thing and Croatia has been burning them enough. 28-26 Croatia at the half. France probably figures this out at some point. 2nd half starting soon.

Spain, the other undefeated team in group play, is railing the Wisconsin JV team by 40 points today. They appear to be the obvious favorite to win this thing. Being on the other side of the bracket they'd only face off vs France in the championship or 3rd place game.

I'm tanking

Good players don't necessarily make a good team but this French team was in control of the game the entire time and if they lost they would still be first in their group. Diabate might be some highly rated kid in the US because he jumps out of the gym but he didn't start the first game for France. Otherwise...how did we ever lose to Incarnate Word?

France as the winner of Group C plays Croatia on Wed July 31st at 8:45 am CST

BTW Matt A went over there. Keep an eye out for an offer to Daniel Batcho http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/daniel-batcho

If anything it's funny that Iowa did not make this list despite offering two months ago

Ended up at Indiana

I'd take this as an indication we don't have interest in Miles offers to Zaire Wade, Ty Berry, Tre Coleman, John Hugley and Bryce Hopkins

I wonder if we'll offer Drago's teammate Moussa Diabate....6'10" class of 2021 kid with a lot of hops and hands. http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/moussa-diabate Ah...he's the 12th rated Rivals kid for 2021.

Game 3 France 73 - Latvia 63 Yvan Ouedraogo's line: 22.5 minutes 11 points 5-6 from field - 1/4 from FT 5 rebounds (2 offensive) 4 fouls 2 assist, 4 steals, 3 turnovers In game time Q1: 4:20 to Q2: 5:08 Q3: 10:00 to 2:48 Q4: 6:07 to end

He's currently playing in a close one with 3 minutes to go. His shot is falling today as he's put up 8 on 4-5 shooting

Game 2 France 80 - Greece 55 Yvan Ouedraogo's line: 14 minutes 0 points 0-3 from field 6 rebounds (2 offensive) 1 foul 1 assist, 2 steals, 3 turnovers In game time Q1: 3:46 to Q2: 8:01 Q3: 7:15 to 3:23 Q4: 4:19 to end Copy and paste how he looked from the first game

Here is the game He plays Q1 6:13 to Q2 9:18 Q3 10:00 to 5:35 Q4 :50 He's #0 (that's a picture of him shooting before you hit play on the video) He got call for an unsportsmanlike for falling over a guy trying to block a shot but it looked a lot more awkward than intentional. He seems comfortable guarding guys on the perimeter and seems like he runs the court well. Both his shot attempts were good looks that just didn't fall. Had a ball where he was posting up, didn't have a shot, and threw it out to an open teammate across court instead of forcing it. His role seemed to be mover/blocker so I wouldn't expect a lot of scoring from him unless the French feel like pounding the ball inside some game is a key or if he gets fed on the break. Doesn't look explosive at all and disappointing in terms of his rebounding ability. Not real quick. Most of his minutes came when the game was yet to be decided though if Fiba rank means anything Slovenia is so-so. We'll see how he looks tomorrow and how much PT he gets vs a higher rated Greece

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Made a deep dive into Buzzy and he's a KC guy who was a mentor for Marvin Clark and coached for MoKan Elite. https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/marvinclark (This was a good article and even mentions him watching us beat Indiana on a recruiting trip) https://nypost.com/2017/11/08/marvin-clarks-remarkable-journey-hes-a-kid-you-cheer-for/ In a nutshell among the teams that recruited Clark out of high school was Iowa St with Hoiberg/Matt A. When Clark transferred, he transferred to St Johns and Matt A. Seems like a hire based on him being able to develop guys and tap into AAU around the St Louis/KC area.

All the games will be streamed by FIBA. The U just put out an article with the times that France plays. Not sure if France will play Germany in the tourney but the Germans have Mo Wagner's younger brother Franz who will play for Michigan this year.

Seems to be an elite passer and defender Was good enough to make the USA basketball jr roster - https://www.usab.com/mens/junior-national/roster/2022.aspx