Coach Sacchetti: "Against France we'll need an over the top performance" / News - Basketnews.com

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The Italian NT found France in today's draw for the quarter-finals. A very tough opponent to deal with, but coach Sacchetti said that all the teams left were very strong: "Arrived at this stage of the competition, every team left was really strong. In my opinion, the USA is the strongest one but in the group, they lost against France and that speaks highly of how strong the French NT is. We'll need an over-the-top performance against them but the guys have already proven that they can do that. It's gonna be a beautiful event"."We knew that every team left was really good. It's the quarter-finals of an Olympic Tournament, that's the way it is. France is one of the candidates to win the gold medal and they've already proven that in the group when they beat the USA. They're a team with experience, physicality, and talent: they have a full package. It's a single game, so everything can happen. As always, our idea is to give everything that we got and leaving the court with pride and without any regrets".

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