Sadness, anger and discouragement in the Argentine national team after the exclusion from the basketball World Cup: “It will be hard to see him on TV”

whistles for the leadership of the CABB led by Fabian Borro AND applause for the Players despite the regret of being left first time in 41 years outside a basketball World Cup. Defeat after defeat against the Dominican Republic in Mar del Plata provided scenes of line, sadness AND unease in the members of the Argentina national teamunable to explain how a 17-point lead slipped away to cause the painful out.

The first to show his face to the press was Patrick Garino. In any case, the striker was almost unable to make statements in the mixed zone because he broke down a couple of times, each time he tried to argue on the 75-79 of the Islas Malvinas sports center.

“How much sacrifice…”, was what he managed to outline visibly distressed. When he recovered, he offered his apologies to the people who filled the stands: “The sacrifice that the whole team made to be here… so many kilometers… and miss this opportunity. It will mark us for the rest of our lives”.

“Making an analysis now is very difficult. Many players who have passed through these windows, who have done their job… not being able to finish it hurts a lot. The ring closed on us, they had a defensive aggressiveness enormous and they also had the possibility to gain confidence in attack”he completed, in statements to TyC Sports.

What followed was Facundo Campazzocharismatic and talented leader of the national team, much more expressive of the moment he was experiencing. “Too bad…, sorry. It’s shit. We didn’t play well, we dried up in the second half. We have to give credit to the Dominican Republic, who played a great game. They knew how to defend well, we weren’t able to take advantage of that, We made a It’s a very obvious game. But hey, now we need to be more united than ever and keep working. I’d rather be here with my brothers feeling this shitty feeling than be anywhere else.”he has declared.

And I add: “We have to move forward. It’s shit we can’t be in the World Cup, but the mentality now has to be to think about what’s coming, work and move forward with this group. To the people I say thank you and sorry on behalf of all the team, we left everything”.

There was also time for the coach Paul Prisontook office a few months ago after the sudden departure of Néstor ‘Che’ García – who now leads the Dominican Republic and has taken his revenge – and won the Copa América in Brazil, albeit suffering a major blow.

“It’s a very hard blow and it will hurt a lot to see him on television,” confessed Prigioni, who clarified that the elimination was not only for what happened in Mar del Plata, but that there were 11 other matches in which the main goal cannot be achieved.

“I think for many moments we thought we had everything under control and we couldn’t calm down to keep the difference or open the game. We weren’t up to it. We chew this bitter taste. It’s a very hard blow. We could have closed a the third quarter was a little better, many times we had the opportunity to score easy baskets and keep the difference”he pointed.