Lithuania

Center Robertas Javtokas: "It's true I didn't play much in the last two games, but for every game we need different stuff, and today coach gave me more time and I'm happy that we won. We always have trouble coming out to the second half, but we managed to overcome it tonight. We just keep playing and show our best no matter who we play against."

Forward Darius Songaila: "France moved to a small line up and it took us some minutes to figure out how to play against that. By then they were back in the game, but we took off quick and won another game."

"I don't know why we have ups and downs during the games. We just want to go out every game and win, and that's what we'll try to do in our next game. One by one."

Guard Ramunas Siskauskas: "It's my birthday today, so everybody has to play good on his birthday. That's the rule, right? We played well in the first half, but then allowed them to come back. We shouldn't allow that in the next games, but I'm happy that we made it work this time. Everybody who went on court played a good game today."

France

Coach Claude Bergeaud: "They played very well and very aggressive. They jump, run and shoot. They know how to play together. The French national team was not ready to play tonight. And I regret the start that we didn't begin very strong."

"They pressed and trapped Tony Parker, and we couldn't get into our offense like we did against Germany."

"We tried to stay proud at the end of the game."

"That's the best team we've faced. They played better than Slovenia. They are tall but they shoot. Everyone can shoot the ball from long range. Maybe we were disturbed early that they can shoot so well. This is the first time in my four years that we shot 36 three-pointers."

Forward Florent Pietrus: "It was a bad game for us but no matter. We know we have another big game to come. But it was just a bad day. They played good basketball. They're a big team and we couldn't defend them in the end. Maybe later in the competition we'll meet them again."

Forward Yakhouba Diawara: "We are disappointed with how we started the game. We showed a lot of intensity in the third quarter and we should have played more like that the rest of the game."

"We didn't show up and they showed up. And they did what they were supposed to do in the first 20 nminutns, they played as a team."

"We came back in the third quarter and showed that we can play as well. We got it back down to four points."