Italy’s Simone Fontecchio celebrates after making a 3-point basket throughout a males’s basketball preliminary spherical sport on the 2020 Summer season Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. Charlie Neibergall, AP Picture
Latest Utah Jazz signee Simone Fontecchio continues to be unfamiliar to followers of his new staff, however on Friday, he performed very nicely towards a former Jazzman — Rudy Gobert.
In preparation for Eurobasket — a match performed as soon as each 4 years that includes the nations of Europe — which will likely be performed from Sept. 1-18, Fontecchio and Italy went up towards Gobert and France in an exhibition sport in France.
France got here away with the 78-77 win in an thrilling sport, at the same time as Gobert missed two free throws with three seconds left to go away the door open for Italy, however Fontecchio was nice, as he led all scorers with 24 factors and added 5 rebounds and an help.
Gobert scored 15 factors and added seven rebounds and two assists.
Listed here are highlights of Fontecchio’s efficiency from the sport.