FIBA Asia Championships 2011 (Road to London 2012)

[persian-eagle-13]

finally 3pt for iran. i think the first 3 pt since 2nd quarter. 44-37 iran

[persian-eagle-13]

haddadi to the line, missed the 1/2 . 47-37 under 3 min to go

[persian-eagle-13]

final iran wins 49-37. iran missed couple of more 3pt at the end again. awful game by both.

[Nokhodi]

Win for Iran.
Iran can play way better than this.
However if they were to play this bad, I'm glad it was in their first game.
Hopefully they will get better and better.

[behzadir]

As i said an expected awful start at the competition. We are like this in every single tournament without any exceptions,those who follow Iran's basketball know this. Samad was decent and Kazemi was solid though he was a bit tired. Haddadi was truly awful today. His rebounds cam from his huge height advantage on CT players. And yes this game showed him how refs will try to maintain him,calling some really stupid and cheap fouls on him. Things will be worse against China referee-wise. So he has to be aware of this.

Overall a bad performance but an ideal result. A win is a win and we should take that. As most said we should be happy the sloppy performance happened right in the first game where we won. Things will get better for sure,but this team needs to work hardddd

[EKBATAN]

whats the link to the tournament stats?

[karimi_jaadogar]

Is 49 - 37 the final score ??? thats very low score for basketball !!! It's more like Handball....

[behzadir]

whats the link to the tournament stats?

This is the stats to Iran's game. Both teams shot awfully bad from the field.

http://www.fibaasia.net/UserImages/G...1914214916.PDF

[Farhad-7]

lol this is the score of the other game played between Qatar-Uzbekistan. (they're in our group and Iran plays Qatar tomorrow)

Qatar 0–20 Uzbekistan
Qatar lost the game by default as all but 3 of its players were fouled out. As Uzbekistan were ahead 27–10 when the game was called off.

[behzadir]

FIBA Asia is in a mess right now as they are prohibiting some players to play for national teams as their citizenship haven't been verified. 5 Qatari players including the draftee joke Ngombo were illegally naturalized and that's why Qatar had only 7 players to play today. So 4 of there players fouled out in a act of protest towards what has happened to their country!! The FIBA Asia head is a Qatari sheikh and thats why they have been getting by this for like5 years in Asia. But this time after all the protests went through the FIBA headquarters itself has gotten into this and it seems they are pretty serious on this issue now.


Also 2 philppino players have been bared to play for their team and 1 player from Syria who has a Brazilian origin.

So all in all there is a big possibility that Qatar might withdraw from the games and we might not have a game tomorrow!! Let's wait and see what goes on!

[EKBATAN]

jeez only decent stats were from samad

[shahramii]

http://www.fibatv.com/video/id/1823893
highlights

[Nokhodi]

Is it true that the Qatar coach said they would hack all opponents as a protest against many of their foreign players being deemed ineligible?
If so, this could be very dangerous for our players in their next game. We don't want any injuries, suspensions...

[behzadir]

Is it true that the Qatar coach said they would hack all opponents as a protest against many of their foreign players being deemed ineligible?
If so, this could be very dangerous for our players in their next game. We don't want any injuries, suspensions...

It is true. He said such a thing in a press conference after their game against Uzbekistan.

[Raptor]

Still no reports of Qatar withdrawing from the tournament.

So we are gonna go up against a team with only 5 players available from their roster?