Men's basketball players and Japanese candidates for the Tokyo Olympics attended a training camp in Tokyo, and Yuki Togashi and others worked to strengthen their defense.

The candidates for the Tokyo Olympics for men's basketball and the Japanese national team are narrowed down to 20 players, including NBA and Rui Hachimura, who belongs to the Wizards of American professional basketball.



The training camp was held from the 5th to the 12th of this month at the NTC National Training Center in Kita-ku, Tokyo, and 17 people, excluding players belonging to overseas teams such as Hachimura, participated.



At the training camp, in order to prevent the overseas strong teams from playing as expected, we focused on strengthening the defense to make a strict mark with our bodies, and Togashi and others repeated intense defense during the practical training. ..



The players will depart for the Philippines, where the Asian Cup qualifiers will be held on the 13th, and will play three games from the 16th.



After that, 17 candidate players will be narrowed down to 15, but it means that the time to join overseas groups such as Hachimura has not been decided.



Togashi said, "I've been playing for the last four or five years thinking about what I should do to participate in the Tokyo Olympics and to be selected as the Japanese national team. Finally, the Olympics are approaching and I'm full of excitement. I was talking.