Jeremy Sochan, this highly talented basketball player made his debut in February the Polish national team. Starting in the top five, he scored eighteen points in just over 29 minutes. – Jeremy was amazing. We are very pleased with what he showed, but we are watching with calm. We do not want to build expectations and pressure – says Sport.pl Marek Popiołek, the manager of Mike Taylor’s national team.
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Sochan will start summer school
Now Sochana is missing in the frame Polish. Why? – Sochan, after talks with his family and the Baylor team’s training staff, decided to start summer school on June 1, which is to help him enter the new team even better. We support this decision and look forward to working with him in the future – he explains Mike Taylor for the official website of the Polish Basketball Association.
The qualifying tournament in Kaunas will start on June 29. The Poles will face Angola and Slovenia. The two best teams of this group will then face Lithuania, Korea or Venezuela in the semi-finals. Poles will be promoted and will play at the Olympics in Group C with Argentina, Japan and Spain. The Tokyo tournament will run from July 25 to August 7.
– We worked very hard and played great just to get the chance fighting O Olympic Games. This summer, we will put all our hearts into achieving our dream goal, which is game in the tournament in Tokyo. Come on Poland! adds Mike Taylor.
Composition of the Polish national team:
Playmaker:
- Łukasz Kolenda (Trefl Sopot)
- Łukasz Koszarek (Enea Zastal BC Zielona Góra)
- Andy Mazurczak (MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza)
- A.J. Slaughter (Herbalife Gran Canaria, Hiszpania)
Throwing Defenders:
- Jakub Garbacz (Arged BMSlam Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski)
- Michał Michalak (Syntainics MBC Weissenfels, Germany)
- Mateusz Ponitka (Zenit St. Petersburg, Russia)
Short wingers
- Igor Milicić (Ratiopharm Ulm, Germany)
- Michał Sokołowski (Hapoel Holon, Israel)
- Adam Waczyński (Unicaja Malaga, Spain)
- Jarosław Zyskowski (RETAbet Bilbao Basket, Spain)
Strong wingers
- Aaron Cel (Polish Sugar Toruń)
- Aleksander Dziewa (Silesia Wroclaw)
- Tomasz Gielo (MoraBanc Andorra, Spain)
Middle
- Aleksander Balcerowski (Herbalife Gran Canaria, Spain)
- Adam Hrycaniuk (Asseco Arka Gdynia)
- Damian Kulig (Polski Cukier Toruń
- Dominik Olejniczak (Trefl Sopot).
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