Hello, wana put my 5 cents 
 
Usually I don't read Asian forum, but somehow today I decided to look through it 
 
 
Firstly I noticed that Lebanon and Jordan memberes of this forum seems to be whinners 

 Spaming the same-idea posts in all threads is annoying...
Ok, back to topic. IMHO 
fadiserhal said many true ideas about Asian basketball schools:
	
		
	
	
		
		
			<...> was clear that Asia doesn't have basketball school, <...>
the problem with the Asian player is his need to copy all the NBA players without creating our own style! 
What makes Europe so dominating in Basketball? <...> because Europe's basketball is more into the game than the NBA!
Only untill we are able to create our own playing style, our own system, our own real SChools! then and only then an Asian team can make it to the World Cup finals!<...>
		
		
	 
Historically I can't see any success of Asian schools in the international championships. Even China has developed only recently, mainly because of Yao and Kazlauskas, who made a big impact on them. If I'm not mistaken, he met big differencies of schools (CHN-LTU), and the main one - playing brainless... And still, a mounth ago China managed to win only one time out of five against Lithuania's second team... and to do so they needed referies badly...
Schools doesn't grow fast, but they need a boost! Look at Lithuania's case - we had a boost by winning '37 and '39 EC, later being ocupied for 50 years, but basketball school started developing. Now we have many bbl schools around the country, and a huge interest in sport from majority of ppl.
It's difficult to rank Asian "basketball schools", so, imho, to would be fair enough to stick on official 
FIBA ranking. It represents only 8 years, but for Asia it's enough.
9.	  China	CHN	254.7	-3.0	
21.	  Iran	IRI	89.1	15.0	
24.	  Lebanon	LIB	63.0	-7.5	
26.	  Korea	KOR	43.8	-5.7	
27.	  Qatar	QAT	39.8	0.0	
32.	  Japan	JPN	32.1	-1.2	
37.	  Kazakhstan	KAZ	20.8	3.0	
39.	  Jordan	JOR	19.5	9.0
P.S. depending on so much whinning here, I thought Jordan is higher, but ... results are results...
P.P.S. 
TheShot  gave Men/Women combined rankings, I prefer only men, but still, both rankings are quite close to each over 
