Group D, Day 2, Lebanon vs France

[John.AbouElias]

no need to stop anything.
i will still be happy even if we lose the next 4 matches.
but we are the underdogs i am sure we will make it to round 2
when the draw of the groups was made everyone said we will lose all 5 games
but we already have a 1-0 record and i am glad
1 win is enough for me. but i am sure we will go far in this tournament. and if not. the future is ours . it's our 11th year as a participating national team. and we already made it 3x to the world championship.


<<rip antoine shoueiri>><<lebanese fans will know what i am talking abt>>

[Adon]

<<rip antoine shoueiri>>

A translation please?

[John.AbouElias]

<<rip antoine shoueiri>>

A translation please?

president antoine shoueiri. a lebanese business man, invested in the Sagesse team 5 million dollars a season, and led to a 3x victory in the asian clubs championship. and since then we have actual Lebanese professional basketball
he died this year.
google Sagesse and u'll know why basketball is important to Lebanese.
Sagesse now is not even a final four team in the Lebanese League, so imagine how much the game in lebanon advanced because of this man's investement, he pushed others to invest as well.

[Adon]

Thanks for the info.

[raph]

France has more athleticism than Lebanon and that is a great advantage since both teams have the same run'n'gun style.Sorry to say (because I'm a fan) but Lebanon will lose tomorrow-or today (depending on your time zone)

Run & gun? you serious ? We are playing close to the 24" as collet can't smell run & gun play style in any of his teams.

That's one of the reason why he decided to switch de colo with albicy, as we needed a playmaker who was able to handle the pressure and keep the ball if needed.

We run the fast break like any other teams, but we are far from being the best for that.
Run and gun playstyle would just kill us

As for tomorrow's game, as said above, we are too unpredictable to deserve the favorite status.
Today the bench was awesome, but several of the players are either unexperienced or "normally" limited skill wise so one of the important data is the global performance of the starting 5, starting by the de colo - traore axis.

Playing lebanon is a bit like playing belgium, switzerland for us (almost a derby game). We always face some sort of extra motivation from the other team, and the turkish crowd will be most likely behind them (fair enough, we had their support today ^^).
Just like for spain today, we have some revenge to take, even if it's only a sport

[lebanese NT]

no need to stop anything.
i will still be happy even if we lose the next 4 matches.
but we are the underdogs i am sure we will make it to round 2
when the draw of the groups was made everyone said we will lose all 5 games
but we already have a 1-0 record and i am glad
1 win is enough for me. but i am sure we will go far in this tournament. and if not. the future is ours . it's our 11th year as a participating national team. and we already made it 3x to the world championship.


<<rip antoine shoueiri>><<lebanese fans will know what i am talking abt>>

you forgot also that many users here and basketball fans around the world attacked fiba for choosing us instead of dominican republic as a wild card and many users here also doubted our ability to even win a single game in this wc.
well we proved everyone wrong till now and i hope we win against france tomorrow.

[John.AbouElias]

you forgot also that many users here and basketball fans around the world attacked fiba for choosing us instead of dominican republic as a wild card and many users here also doubted our ability to even win a single game in this wc.
well we proved everyone wrong till now and i hope we win against france tomorrow.

let them babble.. the future is ours
some day soon they'll hear the words "dream team Lebanon"

[Adon]

Run & gun? you serious ? We are playing close to the 24" as collet can't smell run & gun play style in any of his teams.

That's the general impression I had from French NT in the recent past. Running always in transition based on athleticism and individual talent.

But I suppose you know better your own team.

[livehappy81]

It is not going to be easy, but it is not impossible.
hopefully, good play from isnide, and good ratio of Free throws, our tiger Khatib and Freije and Vorman with the help of rony, kanaa,ali mahmoud and ali and elie and everyone else in the team they will be able to make it.

I voted for lebanon of course

[g.g]

let them babble.. the future is ours
some day soon they'll hear the words "dream team Lebanon"

easy guys

[John.AbouElias]

easy guys

yeah ur right. but never say never. from nobodies to an actual competing NT in 11 years.

[gazara]

we need to focus and be in our best game (A game) not like yesterday ,yesterday we win but it wasnt the best performance for Lebanon we can do better ....
Khatib is a legend really ,he will kill french today ,

Gooo Lebanonnn

[weeso]

Logic says France.
Heart says Lebanon.

Screw logic.

Exactly my freind, Agreed 100%.

[Federoy]

Series History (major tournaments excluding exhibitions)

France vs. Lebanon: 1-1

Last Meeting (official or exhibition)

Aug. 23, 2006--15th FIBA World Championship; Sendai, JPN (74-73, LIB)

[Dan123]

I voted for Lebanon ...
Go for glory Asians!! (a bit biased here)