Tom Hovasse HC x Renshi Chokai
Basketball dialogue (second part)
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Tom Hovasse head coach (currently Japan men’s basketball head coach) who led the Japan Women’s Basketball National Team to the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and Renshi Chokai, the young all-rounder Renshi Chokai of the Japan Men’s Wheelchair Basketball who also won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. .. The two have a common attitude of devoting themselves to basketball with high aspirations, regardless of whether or not they have a disability.
Renshi Chokai, who became an indispensable player for the Japan Men’s Wheelchair Basketball after going through Rio Para
The latter half of the dialogue is the weapon of the Japan Women’s Basketball National Team, and from the story of the “3-point shoot” that the Japan Women’s Basketball Team is about to tackle in the future, the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics will be held.
――The style of “from defense to fast break” is based on Japan, which is inferior in size, and it was the same for basketball and wheelchair basketball. Didn’t Toriumi realize that as a response to winning the silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics?
ToriumiI agree. We’ve always said to the world that we’re going to win, and it was after the Tokyo Paralympics that we were able to actually run to the world and be proud to say that. It’s from. In that sense as well, each player gained confidence. On top of that, in the future, we are working to increase the number of 3-point shots like the women’s representative from Japan.
HovasseIs that so. Happy.
ToriumiHowever, in reality, there aren’t many players who can hit a 3-point shot right now. Still, we are in the process of building a team where everyone can shoot 3 points. Spacing has also become wider, allowing everyone to move in various ways.
HovasseSpacing wheelchair basketball is difficult. Because there is a wheelchair, there is less space.
ToriumiThere are few.
HovasseWhen you’re watching a match, everyone will bump into each other, bump into each other, go forward, go forward. It’s hard and difficult. Start, stop, start, stop … Toriumi has the fastest reaction of “start, stop”, isn’t it? When the other party feels relieved after a collision, the next start has already begun.
Toriumithank you. Rather than being confident there, in my case I had a disability in my upper limbs, and when I started wheelchair basketball, I was often told, “That’s why I can’t help if I can’t operate a wheelchair well.” I was so frustrated that I wanted to show that there was nothing to do with upper limb disability and wheelchair operation, so I was practicing it all the time. The idea still remains, and coaches say “I think it’s okay” to change the wheelchair setting, but it is a chair skill to admit that it can be operated well even if the setting is changed. I think there is no choice but to raise it.
HovasseIt’s unstoppable. But that kind of mentality is that of a superstar player. Without that kind of mentality, you wouldn’t be able to win a silver medal. That is why the next may be a gold medal. As I always say, if you don’t keep the desire to get better every day, you can’t get better. He has it. There is definitely.
