Even when you possess elite skills, physicality and elaborate Xs and Os, if you don¡¯t have a burning desire to win, you¡¯ll just waste those gifts.
That¡¯s one of the concerns of Japan men¡¯s national basketball team head coach Kenji Hasegawa.
¡°Physicality, height, the skill to make shots and the skill to make accurate passes . . . to name a few,¡± Hasegawa said of what his team needs to improve on Saturday at Tokyo¡¯s National Training Center, where the ¡°Akatsuki Five¡± tuned up for the Sept. 9-18 FIBA Asia Challenge in Tehran. ¡°But if I had to narrow it down to just one, it would be the go-for-broke mindset, like you try to score by any means and something like that. The go-for-broke mentality, that¡¯s something we are lacking.¡±
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