Jordan vs. Chinese Taipei - 2013 FIBA Asia Championship
August 1, 20131:15 a.m. ET / 1:15 p.m. PST
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Taipei hold their own in protracted battle for opening win
source: manila2013.fibaasia.net
Chinese Taipei upped the ante when push came to show and went on to beat Jordan for only the second time in five meetings in FIBA Asia Championships with a 91-87 to open their campaign in the Group A Prelim Round on Thursday.
Lin Chih-Chieh capped a beastly performance of 27 points with a couple of free-throws that pulled Taipei from an even keeled position after the East Asians had rallied a 10-point deficit.
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JORDAN 87 - 91 CHINESE TAIPE
CHINESE TAIPE 91 - Lin 27, Davis 18, Tien 12, Chen 10, Tseng 6, Yang 5, Lee 4, Tsai 4, Creighton 3, Lu 2
JORDAN 87 - Baxter 30, Al-Sous 18, Abdeen 10,Abu Ruqayah 8, Hussein 2, Hadrab 8, Alhamarsheh 5, Zaghab 6
Jordan Lineup
- 4 Fadel Al Najjar
- 5 Ahmad Hekmat Aldwairi
- 6 Hani Alfaraj
- 7 Ahmed Alhamarsheh **
- 8 Jimmy Baxter **
- 9 Khaldoon Abu Ruqayah
- 10 Abdalla Abuqoura
- 11 Wesam Al-Sous **
- 12 Mahmoud Nzar Abdeen
- 13 Mohammad Shaher Hussain
- 14 Mohammad Hadrab **
- 15 Ali Jamal Zaghab **
Chinese Taipei Lineup
- 4 Wen-Ting Tseng (C)
- 5 Quincy Spencer Davis III (C) **
- 6 Hsueh-Lin Lee (PG) **
- 7 Lei Tien (PF/SF) **
- 8 Shih-Chieh Chen (PG/SG)
- 9 Chih-Shan Hung (SG)
- 10 Po-Chen Chou (PF/SF)
- 11 Chin-Ming Yang (SG)
- 12 Chih-Chieh Lin (PF/SF) **
- 13 Cheng-Ju Lu (PF/SF) **
- 14 Wen-Cheng Tsai (PF/SF)
- 15 Douglas Creighton (PF/SF)
