LeBron James has admitted that Team USA need to improve following their victory over France in their opening match at the Olympics.

The Americans cruised to a 98-71 win in London but James believes that the team, branded as favourites for the gold medal before the games, have a lot more to work on before they reach top form.

"It wasn't perfect," James conceded. "We've still got room for improvement. We had too many turnovers, too many fouls and we had a couple of defensive rebounds we could have come up with."

"But overall, we played a pretty good game for as close to 40 minutes as possible."

Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant top scored for USA in the match, recording 22 points against the French team.