Ahead of the Women's Basketball World Cup, which starts next month, the players who are candidates for the Japanese national team talked about their enthusiasm for the warm-up match against Latvia next week.
Twelve teams, including Japan, will participate in the Women's Basketball World Cup, which will open in Australia next month.
Candidate players for the Japanese national team are in a training camp for the tournament, and are scheduled to play a warm-up match against Latvia on the 11th and 12th of this month. I was.
Among them, Yuki Miyazawa, who contributed to winning the silver medal at last year's Tokyo Olympics, said, "I'm getting used to the basketball coach Toru Onzuka. I want to make a quick decision because it is my role."
Mai Yamamoto, who represented the 3x3 team at the Tokyo Olympics, said, "In 3x3, the players are the main players, and since they communicate with each other, there are aspects that can be used in leadership. My strengths are defense and scoring ability. So I want to show that," he said enthusiastically.
The Japanese national team will play against Mali in the first match of the World Cup on the 22nd of next month.