Sergio ScarioloSpanish basketball coach, explained to EFE, with the goal of his team’s Olympic debut at the Paris Games, this Saturday, against Australia, at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq, outside Lille, which is for them “now nothing beyond the first game” and that “after” they will think second.
The successful Italian coach expressed himself in this way this Friday in a telematic press conference organized by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in which he participated with the captain of the Spanish team, Rudy Fernandez who will be the first basketball player in history to play in six Olympic Games.
“If the starting point could be a prediction that leaves us far from the medal, what is inside us it has often been this way; and in fact, we understand the reasons. The individual analysis of the players of the teams we are facing says that our rivals are very qualified“said Scariolo, referring to a group in which they will also face Greece and Giannis Antetokoumpo’s Canada, bronze medalist in the last World Cup after beating the United States in third place.
“But, on the other hand, each of our players, following the competitive example of players like Rudy and Sergio (Llull), is maturing, or has already matured, an ability to maximize those resource; to reduce the distance between one and the other. ; to reach a point of unity and capacity for suffering during the game. And in the belief that every game must be fought and you can win“, commented Scariolo when asked by Efe if he thinks that, given the circumstances that often go from less to more in major events, there is no reason to rule out anything – even winning a medal – in Paris 2024 Games.
“Until the end, one game can be won. Now, there is nothing beyond the first game. Then we will look at the second, when the game is over tomorrow. But now we have to go with enthusiasm for this first game“, the Spanish coach declared this Friday in the aforementioned telematic press conference.
Source: La Verdad
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