France will be the best non-USA team in the Olympics, and if they play well enough, they could potentially beat the US. Their roster is pretty good, with players like Tony Parker and Boris Diaw they may contend. Their center, the Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, spoke on what he wants to do in Rio this year.
From Kurt Helin of NBC Sports:
“I wanted to go, I just wanted to make sure it was the right decision,” Gobert said at Summer League, where he was watching the Utah Jazz rookies. “After a few days thinking about it, I always dreamed about it. You’ve got some guys I have a lot of respect for, like Tony and Boris, it’s probably going to be their last opportunity to get a medal in the Olympics. I was like, we can do something great, so let’s do it.”
By great, he means get a medal.
“I don’t go there just to go there, I go there to win,” Gobert said. “To win it all, to get a medal. Just go there to win.”
Gobert also thinks that France can beat the USA:
“If I go there I think we can beat them,” Gobert said. “It’s not going to be easy, they have a great team, but I go there to win.”
Gobert knows it will be hard to beat the USA, but he thinks that France has a chance. I don’t see any team beating the USA this year, but if anyone is going to do it, it is the French.
