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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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Coach Chot Reyes and Kiefer Ravena after their loss against Angola | Soundbites

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