Jordan Finish The First Round Of Asia To The Top Of Their Group

The National Team was going to be pay the price for the utter disregard before the experiences and differences in the technical possibilities serve them to overcome Emirate by 79/67 to end their games in the first round at the top of the fourth group 25 Asian championships in the sports hall in the Great Tian Jin China, where three teams will qualify for World Cup finals in Turkey 2010

It was an easy task of the team in the third game at all, where their competitor ,who played with great courage, was able to catch up with them until the end of the match, forcing the Portuguese coach Mario Palma to include all the players except Zaid Al Khas, who is still suffering from the effects of injury

All the teams get rest today, where tomorrow Monday the games of the second rounds will start where the National Team initiate it who will play in Group II (b) by playing against Kazakhstan at six o'clock in the morning before meeting Qatar on Tuesday at four afternoon, and China at two oclock on Wednesday

Team was launched in the tournament victory of his career due to Lebanon's 84/67, and subsequently won a petition to the outcome of Indonesia 105/47, and moved to the second round with a points of Superably on Lebanon and the UAE any four points, according to the new system in place and the jurisprudence of the tournament, in which 16 teams competed in four groups, which held the first round robin of one phase Vetoajht variance with each other within each group, three of which qualified from each group to the second round, and spread to new groups, each comprising six teams, playing in group (a ) I, II and III in each of the groups I and II, while the group (b) the first, second and third in both the third and fourth groups

Jordan 79 – UAE 67

The National Team starts the match with a strange way as if the result was guaranteed without the need to make any effort, the focus was absent, and applied duties as required, however, it was natural that the team finds itself behind 14/18 end of the first quarter in front of the young team who misses the game a number of key players, with a noticeable shine to Talal al-Rashid and Al-Zaabi of basketball in a long-distance and medium-sized

Things changes in the second quarter which was initiated by Mousa Al-Awadh with three points and Rasheim Wright scored .The brother Islam and Zaid and Mohammed Hamdan and Al-Awadi scored from several positions, ending the first part of the meeting ahead of an eleven-point 40/29

Palma pushed Sam Douglas, Rasheim, Zaid Abbas, Jamal Maaitah and Ayman Dais in, despite the fact that the last one found his way to the UAE basket three times and with the success of Zaid Abbas in registration from outside the arc on two occasions, but the UAE team's balance and because of triangles of Jasim al-Abdullah and Zuabi and naimi was better, where they had 18 points and16 for the national team, which has been ahead of the total score 56/46

In the decisive quarter, the two teams continued to pursue the defense with the transition region, sometimes man-to-man defense, Al Awadi scored from a lightning-, and Zuabi responded the same way, which was subsequently received in response to three points of Douglas, and Naimi returned score from long distance, while Rasheim scored twice, Maaitah scored from under the basket, but Hamdan was the player who is taking on the task of having the points and guarantee the winning which made a difference of 12 points

Zaid Abbas was top scorer with 16 points, in addition to 12 rebounds, Rasheim 15, Hamdan, 13, Islam, 9, Al-Awadi 7, Dais 6, Maaitah 5, Douglas 3, Alsous 3, Enver 2, while Talal al-Naimi was top scorer of the game with 18 points, one ahead of teammate Al Zuabi

A lesson for the benefit

The coach Palma pointed out at the press conference after the match that his players lacked the focus and committed many errors, especially in the defense force, which is the strength of the team

He added: "We played poorly, the players thought that the game will be easy, but it wasn't always tell them that they always have to respect any competitor

Palma said, who praised the UAE team that they was not going to win if the opponent was stronger and more experienced, what happened is a lesson that should be of benefit to the players.

In turn, the UAE's Bin Sulaiman Munir praised on the performance of his players, and congratulated the national team to win and being the top of the group, wishing them success in achieving the goal of reaching the World Cup

The highest difference

Yesterday the Japanese team scored the highest result in the tournament when they beat Sri Lanka by 105 points, 148/43 in the match that took place in the framework of the final round of the first round and the victory over defending champion Iran to Kuwait 94/46, Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan 102/78