The Spanish basketball team is on its way Sopron (Hungary) where from February 8 to 11 the Pre-Olympic tournament will be held. The players of Miguel Mendez sand they will measure Japan, Canada and to the host country to stamp your ticket for Paris 2024. Three games in four days and a lot at stake.
Before dreaming of the Games, the team must overcome the difficult challenge that lies ahead. “No worries. We know the importance of Pre-Olympic and until Sunday and clearly we’ve done our job and we’re on Games, we will not think about that dream that we must fulfill. “We are preparing these three games in four days, which we know is very important,” he said. Laura Gil in a media attention conducted on Madrid.
The centre, with 150 caps under his belt, has experienced them in all colours. And precisely for this reason he is careful when talking about the great Olympic event and knows the demands of the format that lies ahead: “This tournament requires extra thought, yes. The first game is very important, but there is a second twenty-four hours later.There are players with a lot of experience, others may never have played a tournament before. Pre-Olympic but they have been competing in important battles for years. “We will help each other along with the coaching staff.”
The coach has warned, Miguel Mendezthat he Perolympics What awaits Spain is “twisted.” Japan, Canada and Hungary They are three rivals that can surprise anyone. “We are working hard on how to face these three rivals. I think if we don’t enjoy it, it will be very difficult to win. There will be moments when we can’t play very good basketball, but it’s about moving these games forward,” he indicated.
Despite the magnitude of the challenge, the team is at a disadvantage when it comes to preparing for the pre-Olympic tournament because, unlike in previous editions where the tournament was played after the end of the regular season, this time the group had only a few days of training before the debut match Japanese. A factor that, according to Gil, the group can be reduced thanks to its great capacity for adaptation. “One thing that this team has is that there is a core that has been around for years and those who have joined have adapted very quickly. It’s only been a few days, but we’ve already done a lot of work from many summers ago. proof of this was last summer, which was one of many changes and when things seemed very complicated we won the European silver. We also used the November break to prepare and we are the best we could be,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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