The assistant coach of the national basketball team, Salem Ateeq, confirmed that small technical details caused “Al-Abyad” to lose to its Lebanese counterpart with a score of (77-99), the day before yesterday, at the Shabab Al-Ahly Club hall in Dubai, at the opening of the second window of the final stage of the qualifiers. Asian qualifiers for the 2025 Asian Cup.
Ateeq told Emirates Today: “Realism imposed itself in the face of the 2022 Asian Cup runner-up, whose players have great experience in continental championships and the World Cup, especially with the correct positioning that allowed them to achieve success rates in investing (the second chance) for balls bouncing off the basket.” And scoring from them, in addition to their superiority in terms of success from three-pointers.”
He explained: “With a quick look at the official statistics for the match, the Lebanese team achieved a success rate for two-pointers amounting to 64%, including 10 points from follow-ups and successful capture of balls that were shot or bounced off our basket, compared to our success in achieving only four points at the (second chance) level out of The success rate for (White) was limited to two-pointers and stood at 59.09%.
He added: “The difference in experience allowed the Lebanese national team players to make 41 successful catches of balls bouncing off the basket, including 30 defensively and 11 offensively, compared to 28 successful catches for the national team players, including 20 at the defensive level.”
He continued: “The same applies in terms of the great experience of the Lebanese players with three-pointers, in which we missed the absence of our injured player Omar Al-Amri, which gave superiority to the (Cedar National Team) players, who achieved a success rate with three-pointers that reached 38.1%, compared to a success rate of 20% for the players.” The team.”
Ateeq pointed out that the Lebanon match represents an important rehearsal for the (Al-Abyad) players before their important and fateful confrontation against Bahrain tomorrow at the Shabab Al-Ahly club hall in Dubai. He said: “We were able to intercept the balls in front of the Lebanese national team players on 12 occasions, as is the case for the bench players in the match.” The national team outperformed them in terms of points scored, amounting to 35 points, compared to 32 points for the substitutes (Cedar National Team), in numbers that confirm that the match represents for us the ideal rehearsal before the fateful confrontation with Bahrain. Especially since the Bahrainis are coming to Dubai after achieving a difficult victory over the Syrian team with a score of (76-71).”
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