Comments on: FIBA Wild Cards: It’s down to Eight http://www.interbasket.net/news/5922/2009/12/fiba-wild-cards-its-down-to-eight/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elias http://www.interbasket.net/news/5922/2009/12/fiba-wild-cards-its-down-to-eight/#comment-3506 Elias Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:07:42 +0000 http://www.interbasket.net/news/?p=5922#comment-3506 I think lebanon deserves a wild card, for many reasons: 1. They have participated in the last two world championships, which shows they have some good experience in this tournament, and they have greatly improved from one championship to another (winning 0 games in the first, but beating France and venezuela in 2006!!!) 2.Basket-ball is the most popular sport in lebanon, in every street you can find a basket-ball basket , and players too !! 3. Economically, lebanon is very close to turkey(they can get to turkey even by bus), and as everyone has noticed in multiple tournaments the lebanese attendance is always the biggest in asia!(for example in doha quatar in 2007, when lebanon played against quatar there was more lebanese than local people in the court. And of course, this would be a good attraction for turkey! 4. Lebanon showed that it actually has a great basket-ball team, with 2 ex-NBA players (Mathew Freije, and Jackson vroman), and many of the finest players in asia (Fady el khatib, rony Fahed, and many others…), and it had almost beaten China in their first game, and deserved winning the second, but the HUGE referee mistake !!!! costed lebanon it’s place in the final, (lebanon was up one point with ball possession, it ended up, down 2 because of the unfair foul !!) Even fiba asia admitted the mistake ! 5. I can conclude that lebanon, can make big surprises, and give some taste for the next championship! It can beat Huge teams like china, and it already made it in 2006 beating france. The mistake is human, so we have to accept it, but we can correct the situation now ! Let’s grant Lebanon a well deserved wild Card! I think lebanon deserves a wild card, for many reasons:

1. They have participated in the last two world championships, which shows they have some good experience in this tournament, and they have greatly improved from one championship to another (winning 0 games in the first, but beating France and venezuela in 2006!!!)

2.Basket-ball is the most popular sport in lebanon, in every street you can find a basket-ball basket , and players too !!

3. Economically, lebanon is very close to turkey(they can get to turkey even by bus), and as everyone has noticed in multiple tournaments the lebanese attendance is always the biggest in asia!(for example in doha quatar in 2007, when lebanon played against quatar there was more lebanese than local people in the court. And of course, this would be a good attraction for turkey!

4. Lebanon showed that it actually has a great basket-ball team, with 2 ex-NBA players (Mathew Freije, and Jackson vroman), and many of the finest players in asia (Fady el khatib, rony Fahed, and many others…), and it had almost beaten China in their first game, and deserved winning the second, but the HUGE referee mistake !!!! costed lebanon it’s place in the final, (lebanon was up one point with ball possession, it ended up, down 2 because of the unfair foul !!) Even fiba asia admitted the mistake !

5. I can conclude that lebanon, can make big surprises, and give some taste for the next championship! It can beat Huge teams like china, and it already made it in 2006 beating france.

The mistake is human, so we have to accept it, but we can correct the situation now !
Let’s grant Lebanon a well deserved wild Card!

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