Neither Jaime Jáquez Jr. nor Juan Toscano-Anderson will be part of the Mexican Basketball Team in FIBA Olympic Pre-Olympic from Puerto Rico. The ’12 Warriors’ will begin training camp on June 17 in Nogales, Sonora, with a squad of 20 players, which will not include the Miami Heat forward and the former Warriors, Lakers, Jazz and Kings player.
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Both players aspired to occupy the only position available for the ‘naturalized’ that the FIBA regulations allow in registration in official tournaments. Jáquez and Toscano share this distinction, since they were both born in the United States and acquired their Mexican passport after the age of 16. However, given their current status, the two could not coexist on the team at the same time. Omar Quintero should choose only one. Through a press release, the Mexican Basketball Sports Association explained that Jáquez and Toscano will be taken into account for future calls; They will not be excluded from the project that Quintero has commanded since 2021.
The ‘naturalized’ element chosen by the Sonoran coach aims to be center Josh Ibarra, who has recovered from a knee operation he underwent at the beginning of the year. Ibarra, one of the most prominent elements of the National Team in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, joined the ranks of Marinos de Oriente, a club in the Venezuelan Professional Basketball Super League, since the end of March. Along with the former Fuerza Regia there will be another 19 players, among whom the key names of Quintero’s process and the 2023 World Cup base parade: Paul Stoll, Gabriel Girón, Paco Cruz, Fabián Jaimes, Gael Bonilla, Gabriel Girón.
The camp will begin on the 17th and on the 20th it will culminate with an inter-squad match. Subsequently, the group will be reduced to 16 players to begin the three-game preparatory tour against Argentina. The first duel will be in Ciudad Juárez, on June 24; A day later they will face each other again, now at the Manuel Bernardo Aguirre Gymnasium, in Chihuahua. The tour will culminate in Mexico City, where the ’12 Warriors’ will have a new round of training before saying goodbye to the Mexican public. at the Juan de la Barrera Olympic Gymnasium, on June 29, also with the ‘Albiceleste’ as a rival. For that final duel, Quintero will only have his ’12 Warriors’, who will travel on July 1 to San Juan, Puerto Rico, headquarters of the Pre-Olympic final.
Who will be Mexico’s rivals in the FIBA Olympic Qualifiers?
Mexico will face Lithuania and Ivory Coast in group A in the tournament; If they qualify, they would face a team from sector B in the semifinals, made up of Italy, Puerto Rico and Bahrain.. If the ’12 Warriors’ emerge victorious from the match, they could face Lithuania again in the grand final for the Olympic pass. Only one of the six teams will win the ticket to Paris 2024.
The 20 summoned for the camp in Sonora
- Paul Stoll
- Ivan Montalvo
- Moisés Andriassi
- Francisco Cruz
- Karim Rodriguez
- Isabel Silva
- Gicarri Harris
- Karim Lopez
- Gabriel Giron Jr.
- Victor Valdes
- Gael Bonilla
- Fabian Jaimes
- Irwin Avalos
- Juan Pablo Camargo
- Jorge Camacho
- Josh Ibarra
- Israel Gutierrez
- Adrien Porras
- Esteban Roacho
- Alejandro Villanueva
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