I am sure many of you have seen this thread in the Philippine section but I wanted to open the topic to all of Asia.
As usual, I look for the statistics, rosters, articles, videos, ect. I have a few articles and I 'll post them here but it is only a small part.
So here we go:
As usual, I look for the statistics, rosters, articles, videos, ect. I have a few articles and I 'll post them here but it is only a small part.
So here we go:
Pakistan announced a 12-member basketball team to participate in the 11th Asian Games in Beijing this September, according to a report from Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province today. The players announced by the Pakistani Amateur Basketball Federation Wednesday are Shujat Ali, Ghulam Haider, Manzoor Hussain, Allah Bakhash, Jehangir Ahmed, Aamir Iqbal, Babar Habib, Falak Sher, Adnan Bin Murad, Rana Zakir, Mohammad Ishaq and Mohammad Farid. According to the reports, five players of the squad are from the Pakistani army.
defending champions china was drawn in group a while an all pro-cagers Filipino team was pulled into group c at the drawing ceremony of basketball matches in the 11th Asian games held here on Friday. The 18 men's teams were drawn into four groups of preliminary round matches while seven women's teams took part in the drawing ceremony for their team orders in a single round robin group. Under the Asian basketball council's rules, if the participating teams are under seven, the matches will be played in single round robin. The top-two finishers in each group of the men's event will enter the quarterfinals and the four quarterfinals' winners will meet in the semifinals. Winners of the semifinals will clash for the men's title in the final on October 6 while the losers meet for the third and fourth places. The 1-2 finishers in women's single round matches will play in the final for women's crown and the 3-4 finishers will meet for the third and fourth place on the final ranking. Following are the drawing results for the basketball matches at the Beijing Asian games: women's team orders 1. China 2. South Korea 3. Japan 4. India 5. DPR Korea 6. chinese taipei 7. thailand men's groups group a china, hong kong, iran, iraq group b south korea, kuwait, india, saudi arabia, dpr korea group c philippines, japan, pakistan, syria group d jordan, malaysia, chinese taipei, united arab emirates, sri lanka.
some changes have been made on Friday in the fixtures for the men's basketball matches after the olympic council of asia suspended iraq's participation in the coming asian games. the changed fixtures are as follows: groupings in preliminary round: group a: china, iran, hong kong group b: south korea, saudi arabia, dpr korea group c: philippines, syria, japan, pakistan group d: chinese taipei, sri lanka, jordan, united arab emirates match fixtures in preliminary round: september 23: group b: south korea vs. saudi arabia group d: jordan vs. uae september 24: group a: hong kong vs. iran september 25: group a: china vs. iran group b: dpr korea vs. south korea group c: japan vs. pakistan philippines vs. syria group d: sri lanka vs. chiense taipei september 26: group b: saudi arabia vs. dpr korea group c: syria vs. japan philippines vs. pakistan group d: sri lanka vs. jordan september 27: group a: china vs. hong kong group c: pakistan vs. syria philippines vs. japan group d: uae vs. sri lanka chinese taipei vs. jordan september 28 group d: chinese taipei vs. uae the top two teams in each group qualify for the quarterfinal round starting on september 29.
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