Time for his quarterfinal Canada with the Slovenia arrived with him Dillon Brooks to argue that his team has the potential to qualify at the expense of their opponent, stating that they are convinced that they will manage to bend his company Luka Doncic.
His statements in detail:
For basketball in FIBA ​​tournaments: “There are a lot of good players, they force you to play defense, they distribute the ball very well. There are several teams that make a lot of passes. It’s high-level basketball.”
On what they should do differently with Doncic in relation to NBA matchups: “He is a player who is used to playing such games. We will try to do what we are used to, to pressure him and tire him in all four periods of the match.”
For requirements from this group: “We have a group of guys that were ready to play in MundoBasket. We want to make a difference, to reach the Olympics for the first time since 2000. We are in the quarter-finals, we want to win and we will do everything. What we do means a lot to us. The kids who see us will want to play basketball, to get to where we are, it will make even more motivated to play for our country.”
Editor: Konstantina Tolia
Source: Sport Fm
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