Japan vs. Qatar - 2013 FIBA Asia Championship
August 1, 20133:30 a.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PST
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Qatar pull the rug from under Japan’s feet
source: manila2013.fibaasia.net
Qatar played a fantastic final 10 minutes and came up with a pleasant surprise of a 75-74 result against Japan for a pivotal win in Group B of the Prelim Round on Thursday. With all teams in Group B – Hong Kong the third – assured of a place in the Second Round Group E competition, Japan’s win today ensures that they begin the race to quarterfinals at least one win ahead of the rest.
“Well, things do happen sometimes. We got to keep the faith,” Qatar coach Tom Wisman chuckled in jest referring to the much older average age of his team as against that of the Japanese.
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JAPAN 74 - 75 QATAR
Japan Lineup
- 4 Keijuro Matsui (SG)
- 5 Daiki Tanaka (SG)
- 6 Makoto Hiejima (PG)
- 7 Atsuya Ota (C)
- 8 Yuta Watanabe (SF)
- 9 Takahiro Kurihara (SF)
- 10 Kosuke Takeuchi (F/C)
- 11 Ryota Sakurai (PG)
- 12 JR Sakuragi (C)
- 13 Naoto Tsuji (PG)
- 14 Kosuke Kanamaru (SG)
- 15 Sean Ichioka (PF)
Qatar Lineup
- 4 Mansour Atif Elhadary (PG)
- 5 Jarvis James Hayes (SG /F)
- 6 Saad Abdulrahman Ali (SG)
- 7 Daoud Musa Daoud PG/(SG)
- 8 Khalid Suliman Abdi (F)
- 9 Ali Turki Ali (F)
- 10 Yasseen Ismail Musa (F)
- 11 Erfan Ali Saeed (F)
- 12 Mohammed Seleem Abdulla (C)
- 13 Mohd Yousuf Mohammed (C)
- 14 Malek Salem Abdulla (SG)
- 15 Baker Ahmad Mohammed (F)
