Scanning the International Competition

[pachador]

Heres the complete article from Asia-basket on China's plans for the Asian championship in Japan, but I would not trust it 100%. If I was Chot Reyes , I would still assume a worst case scenario wherein China sends it Team 'A'.

What is more interesting in the article below is the practice schedule of China's team 'A' :

China lists A and B National Teams and Plans Exhibition Schedule

by Arthur Volbert - Apr 5, 2007
China has named both its national team A team and its national team B team. The A team will play in various exhibition games this summer while the B team will play in the Asian Championships in Japan from July 28 through August 5.
China has named both its national team A team and its national team B team. The A team will play in various exhibition games this summer while the B team will play in the Asian Championships in Japan from July 28 through August 5.

Since China is automatically entered in the 2008 Olympics as the host nation, it has no need to win the Asian championship and can use that tournament as a tryout for younger players. Because the games for the A team are for practice rather than for national prestige, it can afford to use Ming Yao (226-C-80) and Yi Jianlian sparingly, and give all its top players opportunities to gain experience. It is especially important to give Yao sufficient rest this summer as he has suffered major injuries both last season and this season and China cannot risk that Yao will break down again in 2008.

The A team has scheduled games against NCAA competition. It will be interesting to see how the team fares against top US college teams.

There are 22 players on the A team and 16 players on the B team. It is possible that players will shift back and forth between the two teams based on performance. The A team has seven players who can play point guard while the B team has only two, Liu Xiaoyu and Luo Zhi. It is quite likely that one more point guard, and perhaps two, will be added from the A team for the Asian championship. There is also the World U19 Championship in Serbia from July 12 through July 22. Ding Jinghui, Li Xiaoxu, Zhou Peng, Liu Xiaoyu and Chen Jianghua will likely participate in that tournament.

Jiao Jian and Xie Libin did not make either team. Jiao is simply a tweener in international competition while Xie had a bad season this year after excelling the year before. Bateer has been left off either team and likely is now too slow to make the Olympic team. Ming Yao, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian are clearly superior to him at center and t*&^ Zhengdong, Zhang Songtao and even Mo Ke will be more effective at center in international competition.

Li Wei from Beijing Aoshen made the B team. He started ahead of A team selection Zhang Songtao for Aoshen's ABA team. He was better than Zhang in fast-paced ABA competition but Zhang may be a better fit for the national team. But Li does have an outside chance to make the Olympic team as a combo center-power forward. Zhang Jinsong, who played for the National Team in the Asian games, did not make either team but while he is listed as being born in September 1973, he is probably 35 years old or even older.



A team schedule:

May 17-21== Some games in China
Jun 14-26== Four Nation Tournament in China (Croatia, Italy, Australia)
Jul 6-15== NBA Summer League in Las Vegas
Jul 28-Aug 6== 3rd Stankovic Cup in China (Venezuela, Slovenia, New Zealand, Angola, USA-NBDL All-Stars)
Aug 15== Games in Germany
Aug 15-31== Efes World Cup in Turkey (Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Serbia)
Sep 10-22== NCAA teams in USA
Oct 1-7== CBA-NBL-Euroleague Challenge in China (Bennetton Treviso, CSKA Moscow, Sydney Kings)
Oct 17== NBA Preseason in China (Orlando Magic, possibly Cleveland Cavaliers)

A team:

Liu Wei 27 190 cm PG
Sun Yue 21 205 cm PG/SG
Wang Zhongguang 20 193 cm PG
Chen Jianghua 18 188 cm PG
Yang Ming 19 193 cm PG/SG
Li Nan 32 198 cm SG/SF
Zhang Qingpeng 22 188 cm PG
Han Shuo 18 196 cm PG
Wang Shipeng 24 198 cm SG
Huo Nan 26 198 cm SG
Du Feng 25 207 cm PF/SF
Zhu Fangyu 24 201 cm SF
Mo Ke 24 210 cm PF
Zhou Peng 17 206 cm SF
Wang Yong 21 202 cm SF
Gong Songlin 25 197 cm SF/SG
Li Xiaoxu 16 204 cm PF
Yi Jianlian 19 212 cm PF/C
Ming Yao 27 226 cm C
Wang Zhizhi 29 214 cm PF/C
t*&^ Zhengdong 23 213 cm C
Zhang Songtao 22 215 cm C

B team:

Zhang Kai 24 6'11+(211 cm) C
Li Wei 21 6'10(208 cm) PF/C
Gu Liye 20 6'10(208 cm) PF/C
Hu Ke 20 6'10(208 cm) C
Li Ke 25 6'9+(207 cm) PF
Yi Li 19 6'8+(204 cm) PF
Ding Jinghui 16 6'8+(204 cm) PF
Liu Xiangtao 27 6'8-(202 cm) PF
Wang Bo 25 6'8-(202 cm) SF
Wang Lei 20 6'7+(200 cm) SF
Chen Chen 20 6'5+(196 cm) SF/SG
Chen Lei 24 6'5-(195 cm) SF/SG
Yang Chao 21 6'5-(195 cm) PG/SG
Bian Qiang 28 6'4-(192 cm) SF/SG
Liu Xiaoyu 18 6'3-(190 cm) PG
Luo Zhi 20 6'3-(190 cm) PG

[darkwing]

I've read the same article on Asia-basket.com. It's interesting to note that the China NT team B's head coach is A Di Jiang which probably is Adiljian, China's Mongolian and bald point guard during the 90's. If indeed China will be sending it's team B to the Asian Championships then our chances of making it to the olympics has greatly improved. I just hope that coah Chot wont just concentrate on beating the chinese,Tim Cone did the same mistake and they got blown off the court by the Koreans during the 1998 Asian Games. There are a lot of up and coming teams from Middle East particularly Lebanon, who beat the French NT during last years' World Championships. Qatar has a strong team backed by imports (posing as locals).

[pachador]

yep yep.

1.) one team at a time focus. dont just focus on china. all opponents can be dangerous.
2.) different strategy for each opponent (if necessary)
3.) in-depth Scouting of the opposing teams
4.) better to cook own food. host country might serve spoiled or bad food
5.) get your own transport. dont depend on host country's transport
6.) mental conditioning against hostile crowds or hostile referees and developing a killer instinct

[darkwing]

another factor to consider is bracketing, bear in mind that the Philippines has not participated in the last Asian Championships, and before that the country was sending amateur players resulting in poor showing. These are the factors used by FIBA in bracketing countries into groups wherein top ranked teams are divided into groups together with the lower ranked teams.The Philippines being bracketted in the same group with China is not a remote possibiity.

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Malaysia win over Philippines university Champion

by Chong Jzen - May 16, 2007
(Kuala Lumpur, May 13) Malaysia NT was win twice over Philippines university ST Thomas in a series of Friendly match. ST Thomas is the champion of the Philippines university basketball league.However, NT coach Sim Sin Heng is not satisfied with the players FT field percentage. Beside that, Sin Heng remind his players should control their temper when the opponent is playing rudely.
(Kuala Lumpur, May 13) Malaysia NT was win twice over Philippines university ST Thomas in a series of Friendly match. ST Thomas is the champion of the Philippines university basketball league.However, NT coach Sim Sin Heng is not satisfied with the players FT field percentage. Beside that, Sin Heng remind his players should control their temper when the opponent is playing rudely. In the second friendly against ST Thomas, the opponent are 8 players foul out due to rudely behaviour because they are not happy with the losing result since half time. "This is a good tutorial for every NT players to know what is the filipino styles of basketball, the playes should control their temper to continue to play well in the game while the opponent playing rudely" Sin Heng said.

The friendly match is arranged by Penang basketball association in order to give malaysia NT to preparing for the coming 7th SEABA host by Thailand. Sin Heng also said "Penang basketball association is do a very good job in arrange the friendly match, there are good enough in help me to test my player before SEABA".

The Roster for the Malaysia NT in against ST Thomas university is Tan Kien Hoong(6-3 G/F), Chai Chze Hian(6-0 G), Koh Way Tek(6-4 C), Francis Loh Hoo woon(6-3 C), Satyaseelan(6-1 F), Chow Kim Hoong(6-2 F), Chan Kek Tai(6-6 C/F), Tung Wen Yong(5-10 G), Helmi Rashid (5-11 G), Soo Eng Heng(6-0 G)


asia-basket.com

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Malaysia is ready for SEABA - news and NT Rosters

by Chong Jzen - May 21, 2007 Asia-basket.com

(May 21, 2007) Although without Ooi Ban Sin in the Battle for 7th SEABA, but surprisingly the two overseas player Chee Li Wei and Guganeswaran( both played for China, Fujian quanzhou HuaQiao university) are joined the NT to enlarge the ability to get better result in the coming game.

The Champion and the runner-up for this competition will be invited to play in the Asia Championship game host by Japan from July 28 to August 5. However Chee Li Wei and Guga is recently join the NT without any training with the team, but NT coach Sim Sin Heng is believe that they are not a problem for them. "Li Wei and Guga is always come back to play in AGONG CUP and NBL, and both of them is not first time to represent NT, the players is know each other, then we just need to train several times to recover their teamwork" Sin Heng Said. Sin Heng also hope that Malaysia NT can playing well in SEABA to win back the reputation.

Malaysia is the champion for 6th SEABA which host in KL 2 years ago.However with the champion title, but the glory is without participation of the South-east strongest, Philippines. So, President of MABA Dato Loke Yuan Yew is order Sim Sin Heng at least able to get silver for this competiton. He said"if you(Sin Heng) can bring Malaysia win over Philippines, then you will be the miracle person". Beside that, if Malaysia is unable to achieve what Data Loke Yuan Yew said, Malaysia NT will unable to get allowances for the SEA game at the end of the year. Therefore, the Journey to Thailand is actually stressful for the NT players.

Malaysia NT Rosters for SEABA
Name Height Club Position
Soo Eng Heng 182cm Segamat Rimba Timor G
Guganeswaran 180cm Melaka Chinwoo G
Tong Wen Yong 178cm Segamat Rimba Timor G
Chai Chze Hian 180cm Melaka Chinwoo G
Tan Kian Hoong 192cm Segamat Rimba Timor G/F
Chow Kim Hoong 188cm Segamat Rimba Timor F
Satyaseelan 185cm Segamat Rimba Timor F
Francis Loh Hoo Won 190cm Melaka Chinwoo C/F
Chan Kek Tai 196cm YSL C/F
Koh Way Tek 193cm Segamat Rimba Timor C/F
Ng Thiam Hong 194cm Segamat Rimba Timor C
Chee Li Wei 196cm Melaka Chinwoo C

Average Height:187.83cm

Head Coach:Sim Sin Heng

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how good is the current varsity team of Univ of Sto Tomas ???

[christian]

Nakakainis basahin...

[JonarSabilano]

Nakakainis basahin...

Oo nga. Wala pang scores...

[Sam Miguel]

Nakakainis basahin...

Oo nga. Wala pang scores...

Jonar, I believe the uhh... quality of writing of asia-basket speaks for itself... ;D