PUR - Puerto Rican national team taking shape:
6/22/2010
GUAYNABO - The Puerto Rican national team has a busy schedule ahead and with that in mind the stars are showing up early for practice. The last ones to show up were Nathan Peavy, Angel Daniel Vasallo and David Huertas.
The trio of forwards joins NBA guards Carlos Arroyo and Jose Juan Barea, who will be key in the events this summer, especially the Centrobasket Championship and FIBA World Championship.
Other players practicing are Filiberto Rivera, Ricky Sanchez, Miguel Ali Berdiel, Manuel Narvaez and Luis Villafañe who had a good season in BSN. Joel Jones Camacho will join this week and center Peter John Ramos asked for a couple of weeks off after a hard season in China and Puerto Rico.
Another NBA player, Renaldo Balkman, will join the team later this month and will add strength in the paint.
Larry Ayuso, Daniel Santiago, Guillermo Diaz, David Cortes, Angelo Reyes, Christian Dalmau, Carmelo Lee and Javier Mojica are currently playing in the BSN finals and might not be available until early July.
The first tournament will be the 2010 Centrobasket Championship to be played from July 5-11 and most of the players in the BSN finals might not make it. Then is the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico from July 24-31 and then the FIBA World Championship from August 28 until September 12 in Turkey.
Despite the conflict with the BSN finals and the Centrobasket Tournament, all the players will have almost two months to prepare for the FIBA World Championship where the Puerto Rican team comes with a Silver medal from the 2009 FIBA-Americas Championship and with a deep talent pool in all positions for the first time in many years.
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