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Aug 01, 2023 at 08:22 PM ETTORONTO — The commitments have been made to Canada, and now it's about building the right identity.
"Plain and simple, we want to be a competitive group, we want to be selfless, and we want to be connected," Fernandez added, an assistant coach for the NBA's Sacramento Kings."If we can be perceived that way with the talent you guys see here, we are going to be really good." Canada just needs to finish in the top two among the seven teams from the Americas to qualify for the Olympics. The 15th-ranked Canadians open Group H play at the 32-team tournament on Aug. 25 against France, followed by Lebanon on Aug. 27 and Latvia on Aug. 29 in Jakarta, Indonesia.“Anything we put our minds to," Gilgeous-Alexander said when asked what the team could accomplish."We're for sure talented enough.
The familiarity — with 14 players having made three-year commitments to the national program in May 2022 — is present with the current group. With camp ending Sunday and the team's first exhibition game being Aug. 9 in Germany against the Germans, Fernandez is making no excuses for his side to not be ready.
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