Flagbearing 追加するs 燃料 to 解雇する／砲火／射撃 for Mills
Patty Mills says 存在 a flagbearer 追加するs "燃料 to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃" to 勝利，勝つ Australia's first men's Olympic basketball メダル.
The NBA 星／主役にする and swimmer Cate Campbell will be 共同の flagbearers at the July 23 開会式 for the Tokyo Games.
Mills, the first Australian Indigenous flagbearer, says the honour 追加するs 動機づけ to end the Boomers' メダル 悪口を言う／悪態 at the Olympics.
"This is something that just 追加するs more 燃料 to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃," Mills told reporters.
Australia's men's basketballers have never won an Olympic メダル, finishing fourth four times - most recently at the 2016 Rio Games.
And in Tokyo they'll be without Philadelphia 星／主役にする Ben Simmons who 選ぶd to work on his game in the off-season rather than 控訴-up for the Boomers.
But with Mills and an NBA-常習的な 核心 featuring the likes of Joe Ingles, Matthew Dellavedova, Aron Baynes and Dante Exum, the Boomers carry メダル 意向s into Tokyo.
"The 期待 is there from our team 見地," Mills said.
"We understand what is at 火刑／賭ける and what we're trying to 達成する and make history in that sense.
"But I think the 信用／信任 and the comfortableness that we all have comes from the years and years of experiences and just 存在 together for so long.
"And the new boys and the young boys have just 追加するd to the group, along with the experienced coaching staff 同様に.
"We're here to ... be able to 達成する something that we have never 達成するd before."
Mills said balancing flagbearing 義務s with his on-法廷，裁判所 業績／成果 wouldn't be an 問題／発行する.
The Boomers' 開始 match, against Nigeria, is two days after the 開会式.
"I don't think it's going to be 堅い at all to be able to balance them both," Mills said.
"For me, who really gets going off stuff like this, it complements it, it's 燃料 to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃. It just 追加するs that other 燃やすing sensation to be able to go on and 達成する a gold メダル."
