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ALTHOUGH he faced a familiar and top-tier foe, Manila ChooksTM was unfazed at the FIBA 3 × 3 Doha World Tour Masters 2020.
Fil-Am forward Joshua Munzon admitted that he and his teammates Alvin Pasaol, Troy Rike and Leonard Santillan will be very busy against World No. 1 Liman in Group A of the tournament that starts tomorrow at the Sports Complex. Al Gharafa.
“It will definitely be a test for us to face those European teams, but you know that I think we are mentally and physically prepared,” Munzon said. “I think we are as prepared as we can be and we will see how things go. I trust my team. We are ready to do it. “
“We have played more recently than probably most of the other teams here. We’re still in game mode and team mode heading straight for that, ”added Rike, also Fil-Am.
At last year’s edition of the tournament, Pasig Chooks, comprised of Munzon, Taylor Statham, Nikola Pavlovic and Angelo Tsagarakis with Rike as a backup, surprised Liman in the group stage with a 19-16 victory.
At the same tournament, Balanga Chooks, a team then made up of now Manila players Pasaol and Santillán along with Karl Dehesa and Travis Franklin, fell to Liman in the quarterfinals 9-21.
Liman boasts of 2017 FIBA 3 × 3 World Tour MVP Stefan Stojacic, No. 3 Stefan Kojic, No. 4 Mihailo Vasic and No. 6 Alexander Ratkov.
Lusail, who faces Manila on Saturday at 1:35 am, has Greek Vasileiadis Kostantinos, 36, Senegalese Ousseynou Mbow, 23, and Qataris Mame Ndour, 32, and Hamza Radi, 18 years. .
The top two teams from Group A collide with the top two from Group C, which is comprised of World No. 4 NY Harlem, No. 14 Lausanne of Switzerland and Utena of Lithuania in the knockout quarter-finals on Saturday.
Manila ChooksTM held their first on-court practice at the competition venue before returning to the Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel for a 30-minute weight training.
