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00:01 - We let one slip, you know, it's really tough to compete
00:05 on seven, eight points with two minutes to go.
00:07 It's really tough, but at the end of the day,
00:09 we gave ourselves a shot of coming back.
00:11 Actually with Renz coming in off, you know, last stretch,
00:14 it was a lot of energy, but you know, came up short.
00:17 Had to prepare, recover, and get about this
00:19 and prepare for Italy.
00:21 Three or four players from that team of 2019,
00:23 (speaking in foreign language)
00:26 That was part of the motivation,
00:28 bouncing back those players who gave it their best
00:30 during the 2019 World Cup.
00:31 And again, like what I said, you know,
00:33 we have to focus on the present,
00:34 which is preparing for Italy.
00:36 Emotions, we can't be emotional at this time
00:38 where we have one more game left to focus in.
00:40 So, (speaking in foreign language)
00:42 - We did get off to a nice lead early,
00:45 but we knew that, you know,
00:47 Angol is gonna make a comeback.
00:49 Hammered on the boards,
00:50 threw up 20 offensive rebounds, the other team.
00:53 And in the end, that was the story.
00:56 We took care of the ball better,
00:57 a lot better tonight,
00:59 but we just couldn't make shots.
01:00 18% from three points, it's not gonna get it done.
01:03 You know, we only made four out of 22.
01:06 Three point attempts and held them
01:08 to below 40% field goal shooting,
01:10 but basketball is a game of points.
01:12 And if you can't put enough points on the board,
01:14 it's hard to win.
01:15 Like Kiefer said, we just need to focus on the next game.
01:18 Objective is to get to the Olympics.
01:20 No matter how flickering that hope is,
01:23 that hope is still alive.
01:25 So we still have to keep our heads up,
01:27 find a way to play our best on the next game.
01:30 Hope Japan loses its last game,
01:32 and we win our last game,
01:33 then it's all tied.
01:34 I don't know how they're going to break that tie,
01:36 but in the end, it's going to be dependent,
01:39 I think, on other games.
01:40 It's not going to be in our hands.
01:42 The only thing that's within our control right now
01:44 is the next game.
01:45 Just the matter of size and strength,
01:47 I think we have to do a lot of scrambling in our defense
01:52 to shut down the other teams.
01:53 It doesn't put us in good position.
01:55 It was tough tonight.
01:56 You could see Angola putting three big men at a time there.
01:59 We were in for a tough rebounding night.
02:01 No matter how much we worked,
02:03 the total numbers in the end were just out-rebounded by four,
02:07 but I felt the 20 offensive rebounds were just too painful.
02:11 We were 16 down and we still didn't give up.
02:14 We still kept hammering,
02:15 and we still made it the game towards the end.
02:18 A couple of three-point shots down the stretch,
02:20 if we had made it, could have been a completely different story.
02:25 In turn, they made their three-point shots.
02:27 Kai Soto had two early fouls,
02:30 but you decided to keep him in the game
02:31 and keep him for an extended period of time
02:34 until the second quarter.
02:35 What was that decision like amongst the coaching staff?
02:38 How big was he still during that stretch?
02:40 We liked the match-ups.
02:42 We liked the match-ups that we had inside,
02:45 so we felt even if he had two fouls,
02:47 we could keep him inside because there was a guy
02:50 that Kai could match up well against.
02:52 As against the Dominican Republic the other game,
02:56 he was going to be forced to match up with Karl-Anthony Towns.
03:00 That's it. It was a game of match-ups and personnel.
03:04 We thought that Kai could stay longer on the floor today.
03:07 We focus on what's within our hands.
03:09 There's a game to be played on Tuesday,
03:11 and we're going to come out and prepare as best we can,
03:15 play a 10-team Italy.
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