The Argentine basketball team fell this Sunday 82-75 against the Bahamas in the final of the Americas Prequalifier that was played in Santiago del Estero. In this way, not only was he left out of the World Cup that will be held in the Philippines, but he will also not be in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As a result of this, the one who spoke was Chapu Nocioni, one of the key pieces of the Golden Generation and his comment was blunt.
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“It could not be. Gordon’s hierarchy in the decisive moments broke the illusion of Argentina, which had played a great game up to that point. Hard moment ”, he wrote on his social networks. And then he added: “To accompany this replacement process. With patience. Nothing is solved from one day to the next”.
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The defeat of the Argentine basketball team against the Bahamas
The team led by Pablo Prigioni was surpassed by the cast led by the American Chris DeMarco, assistant to Steve Kerr in the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.
The Bahamas thus obtained a pass to the Pre-Olympics in July, where Bahrain, Croatia, Cameroon and Poland will also participate. The competition will be played with four groups of six teams and each of the zones will give a ticket to Paris 2024.
The Argentine National Team -Olympic champion in Athens 2004- thus added a new disappointment, after failing to qualify for the World Cup in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, which will begin on August 25.
The selected “albiceleste” had five consecutive Games with an Olympic presence. The last time he had failed to qualify was in the Sydney 2000 edition.
Pablo Prigioni’s team thus added a new disappointment, after failing to qualify for the World Cup in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan. (Photo: EFE / Marcelo Endelli / FIBA)
Pablo Prigioni ignited the debate: “As long as I am in the National Team, there will be no nationalized”
Pablo Prigioni, coach of the Argentine basketball team that became AmeriCup champion against Brazil, referred to the sense of belonging and rejected the possibility of nationalizing foreign players.
“While I am in the National Team, there will be no nationalized. Not even a staff member from another country. I prefer to lose with our people than to try to win with a person who is not Argentine”, Prigioni assured in dialogue with Básquet Plus.
“For me the National Team is the purest thing there is, since we have our club competitions to compete with people from all over the world and I think it’s fantastic. I am not against those who do it, but the rule. I don’t think Lorenzo Brown feels the Spanish shirt like Sergio Llull or Rudy Fernández. That’s where the discussion ends,” remarked the 45-year-old coach when talking about the nationalized.
2023-08-21 10:16:14
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