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FIBA-Asia Cup 2025 Saudi Arabia

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I have an absurd idea. Jaylen Brown’s disappointment with USA Basketball may turn him to consider nationality switch. We know he harboured some unconventional ideas from being a vegan to his coversion to Islam. I am not surprised that he may bite if offered Saudi citizenship by Saudi crown prince MBS…
 
FilWelsh said:
I have an absurd idea. Jaylen Brown’s disappointment with USA Basketball may turn him to consider nationality switch. We know he harboured some unconventional ideas from being a vegan to his coversion to Islam. I am not surprised that he may bite if offered Saudi citizenship by Saudi crown prince MBS…
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It's fine. His defender just has to make him go left lol.
 
FilWelsh said:
I have an absurd idea. Jaylen Brown’s disappointment with USA Basketball may turn him to consider nationality switch. We know he harboured some unconventional ideas from being a vegan to his coversion to Islam. I am not surprised that he may bite if offered Saudi citizenship by Saudi crown prince MBS…
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Maybe possible, Kyrie is now nearing his transfer from USAB to Australia Boomers... Who knows?
 
Almost all national teams in the Middle East now have naturalized players - Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar (2 pa nga actually), Palestine, Syria, Iraq & Saudi Arabia. Iran nalang ang walang naturalized player.
 
FilWelsh said:
I have an absurd idea. Jaylen Brown’s disappointment with USA Basketball may turn him to consider nationality switch. We know he harboured some unconventional ideas from being a vegan to his coversion to Islam. I am not surprised that he may bite if offered Saudi citizenship by Saudi crown prince MBS…
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JB playing for Saudis will not happened as crown prince MBS is not much on basketball. But nevertheless with his financial clout he drew King James business manager’s attention on planning to form a new international basketball super league. Read the following article.

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/saudi-arabia-basketball-sports-elites
 
A LeBron - MBS business partnership will be a force to reckoned with. An imminent threat to NBA.
 
JAMSKIE said:
Almost all national teams in the Middle East now have naturalized players - Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar (2 pa nga actually), Palestine, Syria, Iraq & Saudi Arabia. Iran nalang ang walang naturalized player.
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And Saudis can potentially have more than 1 NP in the near future if not in coming months. And there is nothing the rest of the world can do about it. MBS > FIBA. Yeah, it sucks but that’s how money plays…
 
FilWelsh said:
And Saudis can potentially have more than 1 NP in the near future if not in coming months. And there is nothing the rest of the world can do about it. MBS > FIBA. Yeah, it sucks but that’s how money plays…
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Well, their current naturalized player is Muhammad Ali Abdur Rahkman, former Michigan stand out.. he's OK in his 2 game stint last window.. much needed scorer for them.. Khaled Abdel Gabbar, who was considered naturalized in their past years now become a local player after serving residency in Saudi for 7-8 years, or since 2017... I still think they are still better than Qatar, who is much hype here because of having 2 Americans in their roster... In last Gulf cup, Saudi beat them despite they played those 2 Americans together on the floor while Saudis don't have Abdur Rahkman yet...
 
FilWelsh said:
What is day like for MBS, the most powerful man in Arab world… and basketball is part of it… Read the ff. link:

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/617734
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No surprise there... Actually they are building basketball as their 2nd most popular sport out there.. with football is their king sport, only 3 games fighting for 2nd.. which is basketball, volleyball and handball.. but it seems basketball is winning numbers for viewership, fan experience and international exposure among those 3 sports... The Jeddah derby between Al Ahli (led by big man Al Suwailem) and Al Ittihad (led by Marwani bros) atmosphere is like Manila Classico of 2010s between Ginebra and San Mig coffee... Basketball is now growing there and likely continue to the next generation or so....


https://www.alwatan.com.sa/article/1107113


https://www.annahar.com/Sports/1843...الهدف-إيصال-كرة-السلة-السعودية-إلى-أعلى-مستوى


https://youtu.be/S8jY99QYHhg?si=8rN_QMqgTcIpPhJb
 
I believe MBS will sweetened the pie or amplify the prize money for winners and participants of this year’s FIBA Asia Cup. With his global clout he will make sure that the tournament will be a massive spectacle so for this reason some NBA players from Australia and Japan will answer call-ups from their respective federations.
 
Newest FIBA rankings are released.. so the possible draw LOTS will be like this, unless Saudi Arabia, as host will put themselves in POT 1 due to privilege as host team.. It will be:

POT 1: Australia, Japan, NZL, Iran
POT 2: Lebanon, China, Philippines, Jordan
POT 3: Korea, KSA, Syria, either Bahrain (if qualified), Taiwan (if qualified and Bahrain didn't qualified) or India (if Bahrain and Taiwan didn't qualified both)
POT 4: Qatar and whoever qualified in FQT mid March (either Taiwan, Guam, Thailand, India, Iraq)


If KSA put themselves in POT 1 due to privilege as host, it will be:

POT 1: KSA, Australia, Japan, NZL
POT 2: Iran, Lebanon, China, Philippines
POT 3: Jordan, Korea, Syria and either Bahrain, Taiwan (if Bahrain didn't qualified) or India (if Taiwan and Bahrain didn't qualified both)
POT 4: Qatar and whoever qualified in FQT mid March (either Taiwan, Guam, Thailand, India and Iraq)...

Depending what will Saudi put themselves, Our group mates will determine after the FQT later this mid March... But for sure, we will not face Lebanon and China since both those 3 will stay in POT 2 not matter what will happen... If KSA put themselves in POT 1, I want them as our group mates for sure and Syria in POT 3.. Toughest teams in POT 4 will be Qatar and Taiwan... Possibly 2 group of death scenarios because of them being in POT 4 despite very competitive teams...


https://www.fiba.basketball/en/ranking/men
 
Giannis34GOD said:
Newest FIBA rankings are released.. so the possible draw LOTS will be like this, unless Saudi Arabia, as host will put themselves in POT 1 due to privilege as host team.. It will be:

POT 1: Australia, Japan, NZL, Iran
POT 2: Lebanon, China, Philippines, Jordan
POT 3: Korea, KSA, Syria, either Bahrain (if qualified), Taiwan (if qualified and Bahrain didn't qualified) or India (if Bahrain and Taiwan didn't qualified both)
POT 4: Qatar and whoever qualified in FQT mid March (either Taiwan, Guam, Thailand, India, Iraq)


If KSA put themselves in POT 1 due to privilege as host, it will be:

POT 1: KSA, Australia, Japan, NZL
POT 2: Iran, Lebanon, China, Philippines
POT 3: Jordan, Korea, Syria and either Bahrain, Taiwan (if Bahrain didn't qualified) or India (if Taiwan and Bahrain didn't qualified both)
POT 4: Qatar and whoever qualified in FQT mid March (either Taiwan, Guam, Thailand, India and Iraq)...

Depending what will Saudi put themselves, Our group mates will determine after the FQT later this mid March... But for sure, we will not face Lebanon and China since both those 3 will stay in POT 2 not matter what will happen... If KSA put themselves in POT 1, I want them as our group mates for sure and Syria in POT 3.. Toughest teams in POT 4 will be Qatar and Taiwan... Possibly 2 group of death scenarios because of them being in POT 4 despite very competitive teams...


https://www.fiba.basketball/en/ranking/men
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I think they will just choose the group much like what Indonesia did in 2022.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ijcB5nFJVjo&lc=Ugx0no6k6gp5q372gqZ4AaABAg&si=e5DtSUMioPi3FSxb

@36:12

Indonesia simply chose their group but were still in the same pot as per their ranking.
 
JAMSKIE said:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfzUf2m9Deg&pp=ygUNdGF0dG9vIHNwb3J0cw==

What, 9 days of training prior to the 2025 Asia Cup?
I say good luck with that. PBA never learned its lessons.
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The only bright side is that the non-PBA boys will have ample amount of rest and can start practicing. (Unless Brownlee decides to play pro elsewhere in the summer)

It’s only the PBA guys who will suffer because SMB, TNT, and GSM are all expected to make deep play off runs.

Edu
KQ
Tamayo
Dwight
Brownlee

That’s basically 5 out of 8 guys in the rotation. Only Scottie, Junemar, and Newsome are expected to log minutes from the PBA boys. Oftana and Perez? Best they play limited minutes.
 
With Kai Sotto's injury, the debacle of Gilas in the recent 3rd window & this 9-day preparation Gilas wud be getting for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup, I couldn't help but to be pessimistic about our chances in this tournament.

Gilas looked very good & promising after last year's historic win over Latvia & New Zealand. Everyone was optimistic as future looked bright for Gilas.

Right now, I can't help but be very frustrated & pessimistic.

U bet other teams will be stronger & well prepared. Most teams will have at least 1 month of preparation samantalang yung Gilas 9 days lang. It doesn't take a basketball genius to understand that a 9-day preparation period won't be enough.
 
Maybe coach Tim Cone is determined not to accept any additional players for Gilas as of now because he is aware that his Gilas team would just be getting an extremely short preparation period for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup. If this is really the case, then I can't blame coach Tim for stubbornly not accepting any additional players for Gilas.

With a very short preparation period, the more coach Tim has to rely on the chemistry, cohesion & familiarity of Gilas players to his system.
 
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