Thanks
a lot Lebanese coach!
You
just messed up the granddaddy of all basketball tournaments in Asia!
At
first, the dangerous Qatar squad
started with 12 men. These guys are poised to open up a can of hurting because they
have the tools to whoop ass! They are also our rivals alongside Jordan and Iran but that's just because we join the same tournaments. We know how they play... but they also know our style as well.
However,
citizenship issues brought about Team
Lebanon’s coach decimated the team’s legit players from twelve to seven. The
roster was reduced to five following the injuries to their other players.
And
then as they are about to face Iran, the depleted Qataris is just a five-man
squad.
What
happened afterwards is anything but pretty.
Hamed Haddadi and the rest of Iran were left dazed and confused as to
why the Qataris are fouling the hell out of them. Minutes later, Iran wins the
match via default. While some can say this is a sign of mockery, surely their
actions are screaming protest to the shitty ruling that left more than half of
Qatar and for our side, Marcio Lassiter
and Chris Lutz, out of the 2011 FIBA-Asia Championship.
Whoever
this Hagop person is, he just made
the tourney unbelievably dumb. Team Qatar joined a bunch of FIBA-sanctioned
tourneys leading to this grand stage and this Hagop guy trashed their dreams.
Well,
maybe the Qatar players are ineligible from the get-go but at least they were
vigilant enough to check out their documents and give the Qataris enough time
to adjust just in case their players are ineligible. If we knew Lutz and
Lassiter are ineligible, we would have tapped Dylan Ababou and Jason
Ballesteros. The same thing should happen to the Qataris if they were given
enough time to react with regards to this development.
This
development means that Lutz and Lassiter’s chances is next to dim... not unless
they ditch their ruling because they realized that what they did was a major
mistake.
For
those keeping count, before the Iran versus Qatar match was ruined by default,
the Iranians were leading, 40 to 4.
At
least the Qataris are consistent though. In their debut match against
Uzbekistan, they did the same thing. Eventually the first quarter ended with
the Uzbeks winning by default, 27 to 12.
Hopefully
Team Pilipinas will do well despite the absence of Lassiter and Lutz.
Game
over!
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