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Giannis34GOD2
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I wasn't able to watch the game but with Iraq losing to India by 20 pts, this seems to be a different Iraq team (I'm not talking about team composition here ha. I'm talking about competitive form) from the one that put up a close game versus Jordan just a month ago. I think Jordan won by just 6 pts. over Iraq last month.
This is why I think a team's competitive form may vary from a window qualifier to another or from a tournament to another, and such varying competitive form will decide the fate of a team..
Take the case of Gilas, which was in its worst competitive form in the recent 3rd window, we all know Gilas can play better than it did last month in that pocket tournament in Qatar & the window qualifying games versus Taiwan & New Zealand. People will say "wala kasi si Kai Sotto eh". While I acknowledge Kai's very significant value in Gilas, I think there was more to our struggle in the 3rd window & the pocket tourney in Qatar than just the absence of Kai Sotto.
Take the case of how Gilas played in last year's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, after beating mighty Latvia in our 1st game, we face another tough team in Georgia with some NBA players in its roster. We lost Kai to injury early in that game vs. Georgia, yet we almost beat Georgia in a close game. Then in our next game vs. Brazil (we didn't have Kai Sotto), we lost but hindi tayo natambakan. That's becoz Gilas was at its best competitive form during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
So nagkakatalo talaga yan sa competitive form ng team. If India faced Iraq last month, I don't think India will beat Iraq.
Kunti lang talaga yung teams na consistent yung competitive form nila.
True... Only Australia is consistent among Asia/pacific teams that stay consistent whoever they face.. China and Japan was given a good fight from Guam last window, Korea almost lose to Thailand, etc... that means all teams can't stay consistent every window.. yes, they won that game, but I'm sure in their minds, that was disappointment.. they should be better than that...