NBA: "I am no longer 10 years old, I do not need to be reassured", insists Evan Fournier

The ideal opponent to revive? We are not in a position where we can afford to look at our calendar, to look down on people. We had a very good start to the season, with very big away victories against top-of-the-table teams, but also defeats against teams like Orlando, which are among the least good in the League ... the moment, we are very inconstant and we try to build something over time. It has to be a serious game on our part. (...) The match broadcast at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night? It's cool for my friends but honestly, I don't think about it too much and it doesn't change the way I approach the game. In the end, 11:30 pm, only the basketball fans will watch (smile)

I'm in a different situation, I'm going to have to adapt, that I think about how I can impact, help the team as much as possible and play my game. I'm not happy, I can't say I'm happy ... But it's part of the ups and downs of a season.

Casually, it's only been two to three weeks

In the NBA, everything goes very quickly: just two to three positive matches and the machine is restarted.

It's not easy to answer ... We need to be more effective individually, to play better, more liberated, and at the same time, we need to allows himself to be able to play well as a group.

We have to learn to play together.

The positive point is that we showed it in the first six matches, we know we are capable of doing it.

It's not like it's been a real pain from the start and you can ask yourself some serious questions, whether this group can work.

This is not the case.

We have shown that we can play very well together and do great things.

You just have to move your ass and do it!

When a team recruits a player, it is so that he is himself.

I don't need to reinvent myself, to do things that I don't know how to do.

I must be myself.

Either way, I'm not the type to be in a real rush or to ask myself too many questions.

I was just happy

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Need to talk to the coach? We haven't talked about it, but to be honest, I don't need anyone to tell me about it. I am no longer 10 years old, I do not need to be reassured, nor explanations. I always try to ask myself the right questions first about myself, how I play, how I can help the team, how I can do more. I always try to improve myself as a priority. It starts with that. Either way, our five isn't playing very well at the moment. Not good at all even! It's not just me ... We were several to finish the matches on the bench. There was Julius

Barrett,

Walker ... In the end, it's collective.

We have to get our fingers out of our asses together.

It was a beautiful evening.

There was an exceptional atmosphere in the room, two overtime, it was my debut against Boston, my former team ... It was a hell of a night.

But it is the atmosphere that I retain.

I think I had never experienced such an atmosphere, apart from maybe the France-Spain semi-final in Lille (at Euro 2015, Editor's note).

But in the NBA, it's the biggest atmosphere I have experienced, a sacred memory ... I would like to relive evenings like this to be honest (smile).