OLAVARRIA (FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019) — Luis Scola, Argentine National Team captain, was self-critical in his analysis of the defeat against Uruguay in the third game of the FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas Qualifiers. On Monday they will face Paraguay for their fourth game —once again in the city of Olavarria— and in front of a spectacular crowd.

“I'm worried about our lack of clarity when playing and how difficult everything is for us, how difficult scoring is, which complicates the defense with very little. The teams that play well; are usually the ones that generate easy things, the ones that do everything with fluidity. For us, it's costing us effort. Scoring costs us,” Luis Scola (ARG)Luis Scola (ARG)

“It's difficult for us to be in the lead in games, it's hard for us to find game time. If you want to be a serious team, these are things you must fix. We're not at that point yet. Now we must see what we must do to start to improve. Once we improve, we’ll start seeing the board,” he stressed, and said: “The truth is that we're playing bad right now. The match itself has value, but not so much. We still have 8 or 9 games left. You don't have to be undefeated, you don't have to win all except one. You can lose three, four or five games and qualify all the same. It's not a problem to lose. We will lose; the problem is that we're playing badly.”

Scola leads Argentina’s statistics with a 24.0 efficiency rate per game, 10.0 in rebounds, and is second in points with 22.5.

The Shanxi Brave Dragons player at the Chinese Basketball Association, analyzed the defeat against Uruguay while reflecting on what is coming up on Monday’s game against Paraguay: “It can be good for us, like a wake-up call, that Uruguay have exposed our defects. Let's see how we’ll react.”

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