The Argentine basketball team, led by Cordovan coach Pablo Prigioni, began the final stretch of preparation prior to the match that will play next Thursday in Mar del Plata against his Canadian counterpartin the last qualifying window for the 2023 World Cup.
The team led by the Cordoba coach Pablo Prigioniwho had the collaboration of his close assistants Gonzalo García and Leonardo Gutiérrez, settled last night in Mar del Plata, where he began to design physical and tactical movements with the ball in the Peñarol club’s micro-stadium.
In the afternoon, the DT delivered the final roster of 17 players that will be affected by the two qualifying commitments against Canada (Thursday) and the Dominican Republic (Sunday), decisive to define quotas in the Philippines-Japan-Indonesia 2023 ecumenical event, to be held between August and September.
The chosen ones
Máximo Fjellerup (Basquet Girona, Spain); Juan Ignacio Marcos (Lleida, Spain); Facundo Campazzo (Red Star, Serbia); Nicolás Brussino (Gran Canaria, Spain); Carlos Delfino (Libertas Pesaro, Italy)
Also Jose Vildoza (Flamengo, Brazil); Mark Delia (BC Wolves, LIthuania), Leonardo Lema (Olympian of The Band); Franco Baralle (Third of Santiago del Estero); Juan Francisco Fernández (Fuenlabrada, Spain)
John Paul Vaulet (BAXI Manresa, Spain); Tom Chapero (Algeciras, Spain); Red Pike (Cividale, Italy); Leandro Bolmaro (unclubbed); Patrick Garino (Basketball Girona, Spain); Roberto Acuña (Olympic of La Banda) and Tayavek Gallizzi (Institute of Córdoba), complete the squad.
From the payroll initially granted, it was known that the forward from Santiago Gabriel Deck (Real Madrid, Spain), the point guard from Mar del Plata Luca Vildoza (Red Star, Serbia) and the guard from Buenos Aires Nicolás Laprovittola (Barcelona, Spain) would not be from the game.a, because their respective teams will continue to be affected, which will hold Euroleague matches this week.
Otherwise it is Campazzo, who will join training tomorrowbecause the player is not qualified by the records of the European continental organization, from a punishment imposed on the Belgrade institution for financial irregularities in the contracts.
Another favorable situation that DT Prigioni, 45, had, lay in the fact that Bolmaro was released last week by the Utah Jazz from the NBA. That situation opened the doors for the Cordovan to join the albiceleste team. If he continued in the Salt Lake City franchise, that possibility would have been nil.
The first rival of the sixth and final window is Canada, the only team on the continent that has already secured their qualification to the World Cup, with a more than convincing 10-0 record.
The roster includes players who are not part of NBA or Euroleague teamswho were not authorized to intervene in these commitments.
So, the list includes brothers Phil and Thomas Scrubb (both from Obradoiro, Spain); Jahvon Blair (Westchester Knicks, G-League, USA), Kalif Young (Bayreuth, Germany) and Trae Bell Haynes (Buducnost, Montenegro), among the best known.
There’s also Kenny Chery (Petkim Spor, Turkey); Kadre Gray (A Coruña, Spain); Kaza Kajami Keane (Le Mans, France); Conor Morgan (Slask Wroclaw, Poland), Prince Oduro (Korihait, Finland); Lloyd Pandi (Darussafaka, Turkey); Chad Posthumus (Ottawa Black Jacks, Canada) and Jackson Rowe (Bayreuth, Germany)
Argentina, at 7-3, need to prevail in their remaining two games to secure World Cup qualificationfrom which two victories would guarantee -at least- place as the best fourth in zone E, in which Venezuela (with a 7-3 record; directed by the Argentine Fernando Duró) and the Dominican Republic (7 -3; by Néstor “Che” García from Bahia).
The Islas Malvinas Sports Center will be the scene of the last two window matches: on Thursday, at 9:40 p.m. against Canada; and on Sunday, at 9:10 p.m., against the Dominican Republic.
