2024-06-22 05:24:41
[Sports News]The Canadian males’s basketball crew lately introduced a 20-man Olympic crew roster, with 12 lively NBA gamers chosen, together with Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nuggets star level guard Jamal Murray, defensive stalwart “unhealthy man” Brooks, and so on. Head coach Jordi Fernadez mentioned that the crew is working collectively to organize for the Olympics and vowed to attain nice leads to Paris this summer season!
Canada Basketball broadcasts 20-man Olympic roster (Picture: Canada Basketball “X”)
The final time the Canadian males’s basketball crew participated within the Olympics was 24 years in the past, when it was nonetheless led by Nash (proper) (Picture: Getty Photographs)
The final time the Canadian males’s basketball crew stepped onto the five-ring stage was within the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when legendary level guard Steve Nash was nonetheless the crew’s chief. The long-dormant “Maple Leaf Nation” has proven indicators of restoration in recent times beneath the management of the youthful era. Final yr, Brooks scored seven three-pointers in a single sport, defeated the USA within the third place match of the Males’s Basketball World Cup, setting the crew’s greatest document within the occasion’s historical past and efficiently acquiring a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
The Canadian males’s basketball crew has risen once more in recent times, and defeated the USA within the third place match of the World Cup final yr (Picture: Getty Photographs)
Though the 20-man preliminary checklist of the Olympic crew introduced by Canada is just not as star-studded because the gold medal favourite, the American “Dream Workforce”, it has defensive stalwarts comparable to Brooks and Andrew Wiggins, and the offensive firepower of Alexander and Meli, the energy shouldn’t be underestimated. Particularly Alexander, who has made nice progress this yr, averaged 30.1 factors, 5.5 rebounds, and 6.2 assists per sport within the final NBA season, and was the second most voted participant within the common season MVP. For the American crew’s guards, who’re principally recognized for his or her offense, defend the Thunder’s “huge brother” will certainly be an enormous downside.
Brooks (left), recognized for his powerful defensive model, was chosen for Canada’s 20-man roster (Picture: Getty Photographs)
Alexander (proper) has an enormous breakout this season and can absolutely problem all groups on the defensive finish (Picture: Getty Photographs)
The Canadian males’s basketball crew will maintain a coaching camp from June 28 to July 7, and head coach Fernandez will choose the ultimate 12-man roster followingwards. He, who can also be the top coach of the NBA Nets, revealed that the gamers within the crew are making last preparations for this summer season’s competitors: “Final yr’s World Cup bronze medal is just the start. Every of us will do our greatest within the subsequent coaching camp to coach in the direction of the final word aim of the Paris Olympics.”
Canada coach Fernandez revealed that each one gamers will work collectively to make last preparations for the Olympics (Picture: Getty Photographs)
The Paris males’s basketball match shall be held from July 27 to August 10, when 12 groups will compete for the gold medal. Canada is in Group A, with Australia and two groups that certified in July. The favourite United States is in Group C, the place it’ll compete with Serbia, South Sudan and others.
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