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Coaching moves in France

April 8, 2008

As we gave some indication already in yesterday’s cigarettes, it is now official that the there are some important changes in the coaching area of French basketball. Le Mans will lose Vincent Collet to ASVEL.

As yesterday already announced, ASVEL Villeurbanne agreed to a three year deal with Vincent Collet, actual coach of the Euroleague team Le Mans. The team from the suburbs of Lyon is one of the better structured French teams and has big plans for their future, like building a NBA-like arena. Now, with the addition of Collet, who moves to Villeurbanne together with his assistant Pierre Tavano, ASVEL will try to reach the best possible sportive situation for Collet to start in the summer.

With Collet leaving to Southern France and Nicolas Batum ready to enter the NBA Draft, the Euroleague team from Le Mans has some serious trouble for next year. Well, the already have a successor for the coaching and it will be the Rookie JD Jackson who will take over. Jackson has signed a two year deal with the team where he won the 2006 French Championship as a player and has worked with last season in order to prepare his coaching future.

According to the official transcript of the press conference, there were even some journalists that had some doubts about the capacity of Jackson to take over the club. 😉 To this, the president had a direct reply: "Vincent Collet has never coached before he signed with Le Mans. He has learned and we have seen the results. I have no doubt that JD Jackson will continue the work started by Vincent Collet. It is a change in the continuity."

Well, I hope for Le Mans that it will work like that. And by the way, Nicolas Batum has declared that he has to give something back to his team before leaving to the NBA because the Le Mans team has done so much for him. So can Le Mans win another National title this season? At least, all the factors that questioned the future have been clarified now.

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Comments: 2
  1. Yarone Arbel
    15 years ago

    Does anybody remember another case when a coach/player was officially introduced for the upcoming season by a rival club during the season?

    Let’s say Le Mans and ASVEL meet in the finals of LNB (Right now they are 1st and 2nd in the standings…) – winner gets a Euroleague ticket. Where is Collet’s heart – Winning the title or coaching EL next year?

    When these things happen – and they do, it’s under the table. I don’t remember such case during a season, especially when the teams fight against each other.

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  2. Christophe
    15 years ago

    well that’s right but as far as I know, Le Mans has already its Euroleague ticket for next season due to the three year’s contract they earned in 2006 by becoming the French Champion. So this is not that important. But still, it is a kind of strange situation if that will happen

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