Biggest loser in rankings among Asian teams are Korea (from 36 to 51), Taiwan (from 69 to 79) and next WC host Qatar (from 89 to 104)… Are Qatar deserve a WC automatic spot as host with that kind of ranking? While biggest winners of recent rankings are Japan (from 36 to 26), Lebanon (from 44 to 28), Bahrain (from 84 to 69) and Indonesia (from 85 to 74)… NZL almost make it to the top 20 team (no. Aq ranked team )too, while surprisingly china didn’t dropped down too much…
I may agree on you on this but there's only one host but I dont see Qatar improving tremendously despite having (talented players) from 2023 to 2027..And knowing Qatar's reputation to FIBA the last decade..
Ranked # 38 best basketball nation despite being considered 5th shortest in terms of height in the world... perspective. Despite the fact that we could've placed higher, still pound for pound.
I’m happy for Indonesian basketball… they manage to work hard for their basketball program and it succeed already, topping much perennial Asian power Taiwan is already big achievement from them… while its a big warning for Taiwan… they manage to host Jones cup event but they can’t host Pre OQT last month… they didn’t priority FIBA and that will be the result… it’s hard to imagine that Indonesia is higher rank team than Taiwan… they prioritize wrong events that didn’t matter to FIBA… And we didn’t knew what will be the punishment for Korea and Taiwan after declining to participate Pre OQT last month… if they suspended then another meltdown again for them… they deserve that low rankings…
This is the real problem, plenty of players with height but they aren’t as good when compared to international players of the same size. Pretty much development issue
Robert, the Jones Cup is embedded in their culture and is part of Taiwan's sporting legacy already. It is not FIBA sanctioned but they take pride in hosting year in and year out.
As such, Jones Cup is the only international basketball tournament that Taiwan can proudly wave their national flag and be represented as Republic of China