Michigan forward Olivier Nkamhoua got the start for Finland against Lithuania in a pre-World Cup friendly. Nkamhoua finished with 12 points on four made triples in a narrow win in front of a record home crowd.
Here’s a look at Nkamhoua’s performance.
Finland will play three more warmup games, against Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, before opening the FIBA World Cup against Australia on August 25th.
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umhoops
Quick clip of his involvement. Only played ~15 minutes which will be interesting to track as far as how the rotation shakes out. I assume they were trying different angles because it was a friendly.
Feel like he has a lot of “hidden skills” including setting good screens and making good entry passes. Should be effective as a high-low guy for U-M this year.
DMB43
Did Olivier ever defend Jonas Valančiūnas? Would be interesting to see how well he could defend him
umhoops
Yeah, Jonas scored a couple of buckets on him early and then missed a post-up shot later.
kturnup
We’ve got our second Edey stopper next to Jace now
umhoops
Good news is that Olivier hit a bunch of threes with Jonas guarding him and those are shots he’ll be able to get when guarded by guys like Edey.