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Playing approx 24 hours after an emotional victory over Afghanistan, the India National Men’s Basketball Team lost to Qatar on Tuesday 97-48. India plays tomorrow against Chinese Taipei, who lost to Japan 63-57.
A bright spot for India was the stellar play of Hareesh Koroth, who scored 24 points on highly accurate shooting, including 6/10 from downtown. Qatar was dominant in all phases of the game. They jumped out to an early lead and put the game away by halftime, building a 34 point lead, then stretched the lead to 54 points in the second half. India only shot two free throws the entire game, while Qatar shot 22. The points in the paint battle was won by Qatar 40 -14.
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India basketball fans are now confronted with the reality about FIBA competitions. Qatar’s team of hired mercenaries blew out our Indian national team. What Qatar does is the equivalent of, if India hired 10 players, from throughout the world of any background (even Americans) and employed them as our National Basketball Team. In effect, Qatar is a professional basketball team hired and paid handsomely to compete in International Competitions, such as FIBA Asia and Asian Games, despite the fact that there team is not made up of “Asians,” but “Africans,” who were naturalized as citizens, with no connection to the country, except to be national team players.
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The Qatar team was sent to Turkey two months ago for a training camp to prepare specifically for these Asian Games. The monetary commitment that the Qatar officials have given to the National Team, along with the strategy for building their roster, indicates the importance they have placed on winning at all costs.
Coach William Harris will have to get his team ready to play their third games in three days against Chinese Taipei, commonly known as Taiwan. Chinese Taipei is on paper a notch ahead of India as far as National Basketball level. They are 41st in the World Rankings. This game will be difficult, and Taiwan will be favored, but it will probably be more competitive than the Qatar – India game. Start List for the Game:
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