Latvian basketball players are getting ready for the responsible game against Turkey in the last training sessions / Article

In front of more than ten thousand spectators, Latvian basketball players will start the most responsible games in the qualification stage of the World Cup. The Turkish opponents also include three players from the National Basketball Association (NBA), and their head coach Ergin Atamans is the winner of the previous two Euroleague championships.

There was usually a positive atmosphere in the training of the Latvian national team, the focus on the field was on combinations and finishing the attack in the last seconds.

National team basketball player Rihards Lomažs emphasized in an interview with Latvijas Televīzisia that it will be important to observe the discipline of the game in order to curb the attack of the Turks, where there is no shortage of talented basketball players both in the small players and in the long end. You will also have to know how to play against each opponent in a specific situation, explained Lomažs.

In the only test match, Latvia beat the Estonian national team, dominating the majority of the match, but Estonia scored 11 unanswered points at the start of the final quarter. In the end, success for Latvia as well.

Latvian basketball player Kristers Zorik emphasized that the team will have to play more simply and control the course of the game more in order not to allow such big lapses as in the match against the Estonians, as well as to be more aggressive in defense.

At the end of the training, the coaches of the Latvian national team had prepared video material from the opponents’ camp.

In the Latvian national team, training under the leadership of head coach Lukas Banki was mostly of high intensity, but the most important thing is that no basketball player has suffered an injury.

The Latvian national team starts the second stage of the World Cup qualification tournament with three wins and one loss, sharing the first place in the group with Greece. Turkey and Belgium have two wins and two losses each, while the Serbs and the British have scored one success each. The three best teams of the group will qualify for the final tournament, where Latvia has never played before.

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