3rd Place Game:Lebanon vs Jordan

[phevergy]

thanks man.....we really worked hard for 3 years to make this dream come ture..best luck to team pilipinas

Better preparations decides the game.Our RP team doesn't have that for four decades now-no goals,no ambitions like Qatar coach said...

Your labor is not in vain.Congrats

[Jalaa_Syria]

Congrats for jordanian people here , jordan played well ad they deserved to be in world cup

[SOLO]

For everybody here who said that Jordan as an import National team ....

Rasheim Wright played as it is hes last day and hes Tears after our Win proved how patriotic he is and how he struggled all this Tourney for Jordan

Osama Daghlas proved also what a Man he is .......

[WIZARD]

congratulations, wizard! when you destroyed the phil in jones cup by 31 pts i just knew that you're better than lebanon. great game and again congrats you deserve the ticket to turkey. wow.. turkey. pls pass the sauce!

thanks man.....we really worked hard for 3 years to make this dream come ture..best luck to team pilipinas

[koreandragon]

rashim wright was better then jackson vroman.
jordan won.


lebanon lack scoring besides vroman. yesterday they scored 68 ( 27 vroman). Today 63 ( 15 vroman).

also against us korea they scored 68. and against jordan in first round 67. and against china in second round 68.

[alien space bats]

thanks bro...i wish palma stays at least after world cup!i hope the new fed wont let him go

congratulations, wizard! when you destroyed the phil in jones cup by 31 pts i just knew that you're better than lebanon. great game and again congrats you deserve the ticket to turkey. wow.. turkey. pls pass the sauce!

[koreandragon]

rashim wright was better then jackson vroman.
jordan won.


lebanon lack scoring besides vroman. yesterday they scored 68 ( 27 vroman). Today 63 ( 15 vroman).

[Bigshot-A]

Pretty sad to see Lebanon go out like this after all the anticipation for this year's Asia cup after the 2007 loss against Iran in the Finals.

The wild cards will go to the European and American teams that were just left out in their continents qualification. but we should have a 1-5% chance of getting one considering the following reasons:

-We got ROBBED against China and barely lost because of controversial calls against the number 1 team in Asia on their home floor.

-We have a good history after nearly advancing to the 2nd round of the world cup last year and the historic win against France, that could make the world see us as the team that can come and upset a team any day.

-I know that doesn't count but we are ranked among the top 24 countries in the FIBA rankings, so that could be a minor factor maybe too? Doubt it though.

-It is all about the popularity of FIBA, and here in Arab countries it has been all about soccer, but recently with teams performing better here popularity is increasing and teams are getting more and more support as we could notice after the 2006 world cup when lebanon did a great job, so FIBA may want to give it another push forward with making it 3 arab countries? Again i doubt that.

There are a lot of minor reasons too, but most likely we won't get it.

[WIZARD]

Wizard and Solo Congrats guys you well deserved this qualification you are the most improved team in Asia, I hope you can always keep on producing good players because this team won't last so long and I know you've got the facilities to do so I was in Jordan this year and I saw what Universities, and Pro Teams such as ASU have and I think you can get better. wish you the best....

thanks bro...i wish palma stays at least after world cup!i hope the new fed wont let him go

[kerdito]

mabrook solo mabrook brother...iam really happy we made it..and sad for the lebanese cuz they dont deserve that lost last night.

Wizard and Solo Congrats guys you well deserved this qualification you are the most improved team in Asia, I hope you can always keep on producing good players because this team won't last so long and I know you've got the facilities to do so I was in Jordan this year and I saw what Universities, and Pro Teams such as ASU have and I think you can get better. wish you the best....

[kerdito]

4 will be given out for the WC 2010 Turkey
It's basically a free pass to the game.
The determine factors include but not limited to
1. market
2. Popularity of bb in that country
3. government support
4. Team level
5. Effort

obviously we don't have ur #1 and #3 not even a little bit of them so I don't know if it's possible any how to get a wild card, we deserve to be in Turkey but yet many others from Europe deserve it to, they have better Level, better support, bigger population which means bigger audience, anyway let's wait and see, even if we still have a 2% hope I guess no more than that!!!

[WIZARD]

mabrook solo mabrook brother...iam really happy we made it..and sad for the lebanese cuz they dont deserve that lost last night.

[lebanese NT]

i totally agree ..... lebanese bball is in danger ....

we should not be ashamed of the results 4th place is nothing to be ashamed off.however basketball in lebanon kept going because we were doing good results getting medals and qualifying to the wc+ winning the arabic and asian chmapionships with sagesse team.now we are in a phase of decline we reached our climax so their is no way other then down!.basketball in lebanon became popular because of antoine choueiry and his likes but now after they lost interest in sponsoring teams and spending money we are facing a big problem!

congrats again to china iran and jordan for making it the wc their is always next time!.

4 will be given out for the WC 2010 Turkey
It's basically a free pass to the game.
The determine factors include but not limited to
1. market
2. Popularity of bb in that country
3. government support
4. Team level
5. Effort

Team level is definetly for europeans. Also marketting.

Goverment support? We have no goverment everybody is fighting with each other.

Popularity, thats the only thing we have.

[weeso]

can someone plz explain to me how this wild card works ... ???? just one country receive the wild card

if it is like that of course its not lebanon even if we were the best team but you know always europians and americans(south and north) are chosen

The FIBA Central Board will assign in autumn 2009 four wild cards to four countries that have not qualified until then according to the following criteria:

The criteria for the Wild Cards
1. In order to be invited the team must have participated in the 2009 FIBA Zone Qualifying Championship.
2. There can be a maximum of three teams from any one FIBA Zone.

Together with the above two criteria, FIBA shall take into consideration the following aspects:

Sporting Aspects
- Popularity of basketball in the country
- Quality and sporting results of the national team of the country
- Quality of work by the National Federation

Economic Aspects
- Involvement of local television and/or competitions in domestic and international basketball
- Importance of country to FIBA's marketing and television partners
- Importance of country to the Organizers of the World Championship

Note: The FIBA Central Board is the highest executive body of FIBA where 20 members and three ex-officio members meet twice yearly. The Board establishes the Internal Regulations and assigns the organization of all world championships