FIBA ASIA Cup Qualifiers

[ja.he]

Indonesia might be the first one will be eliminated from the qualifiers.. unless they can comeback... Thailand now owns them again after years of frustration against them in past 10 years in seagames, and some Fiba qualifiers...

Indonesia's lack of size is apparent in this game.

[DAdmiral]

There actually 3 former Batang Gilas players, who got their passport after 16 birthday, but were granted exempted, as they were able to show verification of application before 16 years old.
I personally date stamp application of passports for future verification to grant exemption for eligibility.

[DAdmiral]

A game that would draw much of my interest would be the New Zealand-Chinese Taipei game tomorrow afternoon. Chinese Taipei's roster in this 2nd window is significantly stronger than the one it had in the 1st window. Current CT team is bannered by 6-foot-2 guard sensation Mohammed Bashir Gadiaga a. k. a. "Abassi", 6-foot-3 combo guard Benson Lin & a new naturalized player who is 6-foot-11 center. Then CT got a number veteran national team players back to the team.

CT routed Hongkong a couple of days ago but we all know Hongkong is a weak team. It would be interesting how the Taiwanese match up against a strong & quality team like New Zealand.

I predict NZ to win by 14 pts. I feel NZ's size & physicality would give them a good edge over CT.

Interesting is NZ added their top player Shea Ili for tomorrow's game
Flavel has been giving exposure to new players to the program , for future purposes

To give an indication of how new , NZ team to FIBA was , the 5 starters (Brit, Corey, Brown , Waardenberg, Harrison)combined minutes for the whole World cup last year over 5 games was a total of less than 5 minutes

[JAMSKIE]

There actually 3 former Batang Gilas players, who got their passport after 16 birthday, but were granted exempted, as they were able to show verification of application before 16 years old.
I personally date stamp application of passports for future verification to grant exemption for eligibility.

Is James Spencer one of them?

[DAdmiral]

Is James Spencer one of them?

Yup, this provision of application before 16 is well-known to SBP, contrary though to what some are suggesting, this can't just be manufactured from the past . It requires taking action, and is checked for verification if really done .( record of application)

[JAMSKIE]

Indonesia's lack of size is apparent in this game.

I predicted Indonesia to beat Thailand by 8 pts.
It's turning out to be Thailand routing Indonesia by 20+ pts.

[ja.he]

I predicted Indonesia to beat Thailand by 8 pts.
It's turning out to be Thailand routing Indonesia by 20+ pts.

I think that they should apply Diagne for exemption or clearance since he has an Indonesian passport at age 15. The kid looks promising.

Thailand is using 6'8 Bruenig and 6'8 Jakrawan at the same time. Vincent has no help since Guntara is only 6'5.

[mathematicianrcg]

Gilas Bigs balling so far

Kai - 8 pts, 8 rebs

Junmar - 8 pts, 4 rebs

Kai have some sorry misses. But he is rebounding well so far.

Junmar dominating inside.

[greenarcher]

LOL sloppy start to 2nd quarter.

[mathematicianrcg]

LOL sloppy start to 2nd quarter.

Simple gameplan by Gilas.

Give the ball at the post inside to Junmar or Kai. Lol

[Joe Yabuki]

Mason still seems... Allergic from back to basket positioning

[Joe Yabuki]

I like the fact that the vets do not hesitate to give Mason the ball

[ja.he]

Gilas is not taking this game seriously. Shhhh

[Joe Yabuki]

Well I hope the kids continue to get more playing time. From the start I think Gilas was just trying out some plays

[mathematicianrcg]

Kai has double double already of 10 pts and 10 rebs with 2 blks.

But he had a lot of sorry misses. And Miss Free throw.

He could have scored 20 already.