STRASBOURG (LNB/Eurocup/Euroleague) - Vincent Collet has been doing a very good job the past several years with France, helping make the national team one of the best in international basketball.

Under his guidance, Les Bleus have finished runners-up at EuroBasket 2011, reached the 2012 Olympic Quarter-Finals, won EuroBasket 2013 and clinched third place at this past summer's FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Collet's performance this year may have been his finest yet because his national team played without San Antonio Spurs superstar and EuroBasket 2013 MVP Tony Parker yet still had a strong tournament, which included a Quarter-Final knockout of hosts Spain.

The tactician's successful run has not gone unnoticed.

Greek giants Olympiacos have reportedly contacted Strasbourg, the French club that Collet coaches, and inquired about the possibility of the veteran taking over their team following the resignation of Georgios Bartzokas.

However, timing is everything, as the saying goes, so Collet may have to pass on the opportunity to lead an Olympiacos club that won the Turkish Airlines Euroleague in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 campaigns.

Strasbourg, an ambitious outfit that played in the Euroleague last season, have designs on winning the Eurocup and the French league this season and do not plan on allowing Collet to leave.

The coach himself has admitted that it's better to take on a new project following the conclusion of a season and not at the start.

"This (Olympiacos) is a very big club and I take it as something very positive," Collet said to French regional newspaper Dernieres Nouvelles D'Alsace.

"Now I have a contract and, above all, I have a team that has had a good start to the season and wants to do things.

"I have a contractual obligation with the club and a moral duty with the players.

"So there is no need to ask questions. And I'm not in any case affected by the response of my leaders."

Strasbourg have Collet under contract until June but have indicated their desire to keep him in charge, although club president Martial Bellon admitted: "A lot will depend on what happens this season."

Collet, 51, is content to stay with his current club, one that has prevailed in its first three games of the French season.

He is clearly intrigued by the possibility of moving abroad at some point, though.

"I hope that a proposal will come one day at a normal time, that is to say at the end of a season," Collet said.

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