Yuta Watanabe and Rui Hachimura had fun playing together on the Japan men’s basketball team for the first time during Thursday night’s victory over Kazakhstan.
On Sunday, the two star forwards agreed that they would like to continue to have fun — and deliver another win — against Iran the following day in the second round of FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers.
"It was my first game playing for the Japanese national team in a long time," Watanabe said of the 85-70 triumph in Almaty.