Kazakhastan Is Down. . . Qatar Is Next

The Nationaleam of basketball kept their dominance on Kazakhstan. They won 98/80 in their opening match in the second round of 25 Asia in the Chinese city of Tianjin, which will be given three visas to cross the World Cup finals in Turkey 2010

The team will play an important match with Qatar, before they end their games tomorrow in this role by confronting the dragon of China, and the team will ensure if they win today to finish second in Group II, which would make it easier to go into the route and to avoid confrontations in the eighth quarter

Team has achieved in the first round of three consecutive victories against Lebanon 84/67 and Indonesia 105/47 and the United Arab Emirates 79/67, they and qualified with six points to the second round, playing in the second group (b), along with China, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and the UAE, while the first group includes teams Iran, South Korea, the Philippines, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Kuwait, and four teams from each group will qualify for the eighth quarter

Jordan 98 – Kazakhstan 80

The first quarter, which ended for the National Team by 23/19, was Characterized with competitive parity, and the team through it focused which introduced the region to defend on the implementation of direct intrusions launched a blitz and repayment of the near and medium distances, while the performance in the defense side was not in the usual level, and the censorship on Anton Ponomarev and Alexander Tiotyunc was not meaningful as required, and the team made the most points through Zaid Abbas, Rasheim Wright and Sam Douglas, and the rotation of the last two lead the formulation of the games and the opposite attack

The team tend to use the three-points shooting where Zaid alkhas who is back from injury scored twice in a row of the ideal unloading by Fadel Najjar

Wesam Alsous and Ayman Dais and Rasheim hit the Kazakh basketball from beyond the arc, but the opponent did not stand still, but they payback in the same way by Alexander Maxim Vojkov Perec and Ismail and Rustam Iargaliev, but that the successful attacks of Rasheim, Sam and Enver Soobzokov and enabled the team to expand the gap to ten points with the end of The first half of the game 50/40.

The balance has tilted in favor of the national team clearly as a result of successive points by Zaid Abbas Rasheim who review and record of multiple positions, to move up the difference to 14 points, 74/60, before settling at the end of maetting with 18 points, after his team had their controls in the decisive quarter, created by the triangular Rasheim and Zaid Abbas and sam of the attack in the opposite Fast Break fast from the exploitation of skilled competitor who is resigned to the fact, to lead the national team who is devoted to Kazakhstan, which used to exceed, where he was defeated in the William Jones Cup last 96/77, and in the Asian Cup in the 24 Japan 82/73 and before that in the Doha 99/91

Rasheim Wright was chosen the game scorer with 29 points, Zaid Abbas 21 points, Douglas 17, AlKhas 9, Dais 6, Najjar 6, Alsous 4, Enver 2, Islam Abbas 2, Mousa Al-Awadi 2. On the other side, Tiotyunc andPonomarev scored 24 points each for Kazakhstan

Payback

In addition to his quest to win and his desire to finish second in Group II, the national team looks after the reaction into account the heavy loss suffered by Qatar to the difference of 32 points, 48/80 a few weeks ago at Doha International Quartet solution

The Qatar team is one of the teams who is nominate to compete for a place in the World Cup after the return of all the stars and Portugal professional Mustafa AlSaid (206 cm) in the ranks and the team who is coached by local Ali Fakhro ,includes seven players who are more than two meters height and they are along to Mustafa, Yassin Ismail, Omar Abdel-Kader, Ali Turki, Ahmed Bakr, Hammam Omar and Mohammed Salim

The Portuguese coach Mario Palma, described the game as a hard game where it is expected to be a tactical outcome not easily resolved, and that the two teams will play a strong competitive show

He said in a press conference held after meeting with Kazakhstan: we need today to attack the apostate man and strengthening the defense and focus, and my team will be ready to face

For his part, the star Zaid Abbas said: It is true that the Qatar Team is and has the experience and consistency, and had previously made second in Asia Championship and qualified for the World Cup, but the national team capable of winning, and we will make every effort possible to achieve this goal

Huge Win for Iran

Iran, the title-holder, has achieved on a big win over Japan 101/71 by thirty points in their first game the second role, as South Korea beat Kuwait to 78/58, and the four teams are playing in the first group

Today’s Games

Today's six meetings in the second round for the second round, where Iran will play with the Philippines and Kuwait, with Japan and South Korea with Chinese Taipei (Group I), Lebanon is facing China and Kazakhstan with UAE along with the national team game against Qatar (Group II).