Asian Cup basketball; Iran’s easy victory against Syria
According to IRNA, students Saeed Armaghani Today, on Wednesday, at the beginning of its work in the 2022 Asian Cup and from Group C of this competition, it faced Syria, which in the end won with the result of 80-67.
Iran’s national basketball team, which defeated Syria in two round-robin games in the World Cup window, defeated this team again today in the Asia Cup to take the first step successfully.
The Iranian team played in this game with the combination of Hamed Haddadi, Arslan Kazemi, Behnam Lakhri, Mohammad Jamshidi and Sajjad Meshaikhi and won in a not so difficult match.
In this game, Behnam Lakhri showed a good performance with 31 points (5 successful three-pointers), 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, on the other hand, Hamed Haddadi also scored 11 points, 20 rebounds, 4 assists. And he showed off his strength with 3 block shots.
In the continuation of these games and tomorrow, Australia will meet with Saudi Arabia, Korea with Chinese Taipei, Indonesia with Jordan and Bahrain with China.
The second game of our country’s skyscrapers is on July 24 against Kazakhstan, a team that has a good average height and has a physical and strong game on its agenda. Of course, they defeated the Iranian team in both matches held in the third window of the World Cup. We lost to this team 69-73 in Tehran and in an away match with all our stars in attendance, it was us who lost 68-69. Now, the Asian Cup will be the perfect opportunity to make up for this result.
The third game of Armaghani’s students in this competition is against the Japanese team, a match that will be held on July 26, and it remains to be seen how the performance of the new technical staff of the Iran national basketball team will be in this competition.
In the Asian Cup competitions, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Indonesia are in the first group, Chinese Taipei, China, Korea and Bahrain are in the second group, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan and Syria are in the third group, and India, Lebanon, Philippines and New Zealand are in the fourth group. .
The file of these competitions will be closed on the second day of August when the face of the Asian Cup champion will be determined, and it remains to be seen which team will rely on the basketball summit of this continent at the end.