Canada’s women’s basketball team faces familiar foe France for first in group
Canada’s women’s basketball team has learned a lot about France in the handful of huge games in which the two countries have faced off.
The Canadians know France doesn’t like to run, so they plan to do precisely that.
First place in their group is on the line when the two undefeated teams meet Tuesday at the FIBA women’s World Cup in Tenerife, Spain, and coach Lisa Thomaidis believes Canada’s women can turn the game into a track meet.
“You’ll notice France really plays quite a disciplined style at the offensive end, it’s going to be a battle of who can control the tempo,” Thomaidis said. They want to slow things down, they want to get you into the quarter-court and out-execute you, and they have the pieces in place to do a good job of that.