It’s been a minute and we can’t remember when we first noticed Japanese basketball, but it was either in FIBA World Cup play or the Olympics a while back and they just looked like a spirited, creative and really fun team, especially on the perimeter. We wrote about them at the time and said something like it was a real pleasure to watch them.
Well it still is.
Look at this footage from Japan’s win this week over Finland. That team is wonderfully creative and fun to watch. Basketball has been big in Europe and South America for some time of course and much more so since the Dream Team in 1992.