The French team has generally had a hellish time in the group stages and the next match against Canada does not look reassuring.

Coming out of the defeat against Germany, Nicolas Batum had also announced the colour to Vincent Collet.

The accounting record is far from ridiculous with two victories for only one defeat, but the group stages have been quite tricky for the French team.

Demolished in a regular way by Germany, the reigning world champion, Vincent Collet’s squad has hardly convinced observers for the moment with hard-fought victories against Brazil and Japan.

And it is not likely to be any easier in the quarter-finals:

Batum’s big pressure for Vinent Collet

As we now know, it is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Canada that will face Les Bleus.

The Thunder point guard has already set the tone for his French opponents and for the moment, they are really not the favorites for the match.

On a tactical level, the staff led by Vincent Collet seems to be fumbling far too often… and we can’t say that this is beyond the players.

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For a few hours now, the climate between the coach and Evan Fournier has become very tense, for example, with the guard criticizing his superior for wanting to play a basketball that is no longer viable today.

These remarks were deemed unacceptable by Collet, but Nicolas Batum came to add another layer to RMC. The French national team veteran attacks the rotations put in place by the tactician:

The first half (against Germany) is when you’re a team that doesn’t want to listen to instructions, that doesn’t want to play hard.

You get pushed around, no one responds. And we have the team of the last 15 minutes. As an old hand on that team, I tried to yell at half-time.

We need to have that team on Tuesday. We won’t have a choice.

I hope we find the right players.

Vincent won’t have a choice but to put in the right players, the players who want to, who are ready to do that.

Before the Olympic Games, Collet was often criticized for only relying on players he had been playing with for a long time.

Except that they weren’t all convincing in this tournament… So he’s going to have to change tack.

Evan Fournier is not the only one to have a problem with Vincent Collet’s tactical choices, this also seems to be the case for Nicolas Batum.

While the Blues are practically against the wall before the match against Canada, the coach will not have the right to make a mistake.