France has long been a powerhouse in EuroBasket, so for them to fall down in the Round of 16 in the 2025 iteration of the proceedings is no small thing. It becomes an even greater deal when a nation like Georgia, which has historically been worse than them in basketball, becomes the team to take them down, doing so on Sunday with an 80-70 victory to advance to the quarterfinals of the competition.

While it is important to mention that France was not fielding their best roster, as they were without the likes of Victor Wembanyama , Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, and Nicolas Batum, among others, defeating them is no easy task. Any team that manages to send them home from a competition as big as EuroBasket earn the right to talk some smack, and Wembanyama's former Spurs teammate, Georgia star

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