While the performance of the French team during its victory against Canada on Tuesday was particularly praised, Vincent Collet’s decision to leave Rudy Gobert on the bench also caused a lot of ink to flow.

Gilbert Arenas was also not kind to the interior.

The French team had to show a new face to beat Canada on Tuesday.

Completely transformed, the Blues have indeed achieved the feat by winning. On the tactical level as in aggressiveness, Vincent Collet’s men were on point, even if it also took a little luck at times.

But in the end, it was the collective that allowed this qualification for the semi-finals of the Olympic Games.

On the other hand, while his teammates almost all delivered a great performance, Rudy Gobert was mostly a spectator of this match.

Relegated to the bench, he only recorded one rebound in 4 minutes of play.

This surprising decision gave rise to a big misunderstanding, then was explained by the Wolves superstar, even if Gilbert Arenas has a completely different opinion on the matter, as heard on his show “Gil’s Arena”.

Gilbert Arenas merciless with Rudy Gobert
This proves again what we were saying, Rudy Gobert is the weak link in defense.

We’ve seen it many times. He’s just big. He weakens a team, so we take him off.

He’s always put on the bench, but he’s still considered the best defender.

Every time we need to be more solid in this area of ​​the game, he gets taken off. It contradicts all his awards.

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When we have to think defense, we take him off the field. It doesn’t make any sense when you look at the trophies he’s won.

Vincent Collet is saying that this guy who receives so many awards in the United States doesn’t know how to defend well. (…) We can clearly see that there is also a contradiction when he says that he wanted to play small ball and that he wanted to have a better defense.

All of this sounds stupid. We all know that if there is only one save left to make, your best defensive player is supposed to be on the field.

So the fact that you put someone else and think that this 5 is better defensively clearly shows that he doesn’t respect his awards.

It’s the same as when we said that Victor Wembanyama was a better defensive player. People aren’t afraid of Rudy Gobert defensively.

He got the DPOY award, but what we see now is that former and current NBA players, coaches and staffs who played against Rudy and now the rest of the world are on the same page.

We could already see that coaches were asking to make picks & rolls targeting Rudy Gobert in the playoffs.

It clearly shows that they think he is the weakest defender on the team.

Vincent Collet’s choice to deprive himself of Rudy Gobert has been widely discussed and has been interpreted in different ways.

But according to Gilbert Arenas, this can simply be explained by the fact that the quadruple DPOY would in fact be overrated in defense.