Nic Batum French Magazine Interview

I ran across a very interesting interview by the French magazine Reverse that was translated by FrenchFan on a Blazer's Edge fan post. The translation is a little choppy to say the least but easy to follow. Enjoy.

I know the talk here is mostly about free angency and the Hedo stuff, but maybe some of you will be interested in this Nic long interview.

Please forgive me for the syntaxic mistakes in the translation, i did my best.

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Despite everything he went through during the last year, Nicolas Batum has remained as humble and thoughtful than during our first interview just two years ago. This is probably why he managed to find a place in one of the most promising teams in the NBA, and why he should soon have a major role wit then french national team.


Reverse: Everyone say that there is a big difference between the regular season and the plyoffs. Do you have felt it?

Nicolas Batum: Yes! Especially as we had little experience, it was visible in the first match where we were behind by 30 immediately. The difference of intensity is huge, especially with the reffering changes. There are plenty of fouls they were calling in the regular season and not here. We had never been in the playoffs, so we have been complaining a lot.(he smiles). Especially at the first game. We could have beat them anyway, but the Game1 really killed us.