When 3x3 basketball's inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was announced, longtime proponent Tomoya Ochiai was beside himself.
At the same time, he wondered if the sport's Olympic inclusion was legitimate.
"When I first started playing, we would be playing on the concrete, sometimes in the pouring rain," Ochiai said after the Japan men's national 3x3 team training camp at Tokyo's National Training Center on Wednesday. "I was thinking, 'Is something like this really going to be an Olympic sport?'"