His shoes have trudged across countless hardwood courts from Spain to Japan.
Zeljko Pavlicevic, the Japan national team head basketball coach, addresses the media with the assistance
of interpreter Ken Kusumoto after Friday's practice at the Japan Institute of Sports Science in Tokyo.
Japan faces Senegal on Aug. 13 in its final tuneup game before the FIBA World Championship.
ED ODEVEN
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His eyes have seen thousands of well-executed plays -- and just as many fundamental miscues.