Good evening from our hotel in Ramat Gan, Israel! We arrived yesterday morning around 7:00 am and immediately transferred to our hotel. Everyone was a little fatigued, but all good. We had a very light warm down session yesterday around 4:30 pm for about 60 minutes to help with our fatigue by jogging, stretching and playing a little 5:2. After the session we went to the pool to do a good stretch and then to dinner. This morning we left the hotel at 6:15 am for our 7:00 am training until 8:30. We accomplished a lot considering how jet lagged we all are. The afternoon training was much better with a little pep in our game. We made really good progress in defining how we want to attack and defend and ended the session with conditioning in small sided 4v4 games. We train again tomorrow in our last day of two-a-day training sessions. The rest of our delegation will arrive tomorrow, bringing our total to over 1150 strong. On Thursday, we will have a Friendly Game with our youth team at 7:00 am and then begin the Israel Connect program of touring, until we depart for Jerusalem and the tournament on July 4th. Before we depart in the 4th, we will have our last friendly against Mexuco this Sunday at 7:00 am. This evening we watched a great film about the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv European Basketball Championship and it's star player, an American named Tal Brody. He was here and spoke to all if us after the film called " On the Map"! It was truly an inspiring and historical film, that everyone should see. After the film, we came back to the hotel and Mark Knue and a few of our players met with Tal and here is a photo in our hotel lobby.

Here are a few photos from our morning training.

So I wish every e a good night! Coach Goldfarb from Ramat Gan, Israel