Looking ahead is all (Nicolas) Batum wants to concern himself with.

To begin with, he hopes to play more minutes in games to come after having been bothered by a sore back against the Americans.

“It was tough because I had a bad back. I tried to play with it, I tried everything,” he said.

“I hurt it during the Opening Ceremony, standing four or five hours in a row. I’m not used to that.”

As for they keys to France being successful from here on out, he believes the game against the USA served as a good lesson.

via FIBA.com