France

Pape Badiane: "We played a good game. It was important for us to get ourselves together and get ready for the quarter-finals. It was good that we played well and had a little fun, and it's important for us. Russia is a good team. They will try to revenge the friendly game. We'll need to bring our energy, move our ball a lot and if we do that, we should be fine."

Boris Diaw: "The most important thing for us was not so much to win against Turkey but to play a good game because we have to be ready for Russia. We wanted to go forward and not back in terms of play and we did that against Turkey."

"We got everybody to play tonight and that's good because we might need all of our players to be ready to step up for the rest of the championship. It has been a good practise for tomorrow.

Tariq Kirksay: "This win gives us a bit of confidence going into the game tomorrow. We had to work on some things and I think we did well. I don't know if you want to say it was a practice game, but we wanted to work on some stuff. And we wanted to win and we got some players some confidence. And now we have to be ready for tomorrow."

Coach Claude Bergeaud: "This game was very complicated. Our game needed to have one more practice, and it was important to play a good game before the quarter-finals. We needed to play at the same aggressive style we play every game, although it didn't matter much. We were up and down during the game, especially in defense where we sometimes lack focus."

Turkey

Coach Bogdan Tanjevic: "We made excellent preparation, and I don't know what changed here. We couldn't find the energy to bring from what we showed in the preparation to this tournament."

Ermal Turkoglu: "Not much to say. We didn't play like we wanted the whole tournament. We didn't get to show it in this game too. France is a very good team, and I think they'll go far. I wish them all the best."

Engin Atsur: "We just have to wait and see what happens for us and Turkish basketball. I hope this doesn't do immense damage to Turkish basketball. Obviously we're disappointed, but we're going to try to bounce back as a country in basketball. It hurts because we had a great summer last year. If you look at it, we have great talent, but we just couldn't make it as a team this year."