I made good predictions about winners, but I didn't predict points, I was wrong for a little.
Tonight games will be interesting to watch and bet on them, Australia and New Zealand will dominate in tonight games, I don't think that Iran have any chance to win against Australia and S. Korea will lose from N. Zealand. After last mistake with points I will not even try to give any predictions about that, except maybe that Australia and Iran will play better and in that game I expect more points in the end, but that doesn't mean anything, surprises are always possible. China can take 5 place with tonight's win, so maybe that can be a good choice for betting, we still have more time, later I will check odds and make some bets, good luck to all.
Tonight games will be interesting to watch and bet on them, Australia and New Zealand will dominate in tonight games, I don't think that Iran have any chance to win against Australia and S. Korea will lose from N. Zealand. After last mistake with points I will not even try to give any predictions about that, except maybe that Australia and Iran will play better and in that game I expect more points in the end, but that doesn't mean anything, surprises are always possible. China can take 5 place with tonight's win, so maybe that can be a good choice for betting, we still have more time, later I will check odds and make some bets, good luck to all.
I was sick last couple of days so I wasn't able to put a bet. Damn.
Australia - Gold
Iran - Silver
South Korea - Bronze
Hamed Haddadi is the MVP again. He goes down in history as the first ever MVP of the new FIBA Asia Cup, offered by Tissot. Too bad Australia beat them, I think this is the first time that Australia has won the FIBA cup if I'm not mistaken. Australia made a good lead early, and Iran was unable to catch them up eventhough Haddadi was leading to lead the Iranians for a comeback. Congrats to the Ozzy's.
Well congrats for the new champion and i bet there are lot of frustrated countries that didnt make it. Well better try again next year. Well i guess Australia is now a lethal team in asia. But i gotta say its weird they are in that bracket. Im even amazed that S. Korea made it to the 3rd spot again. So sad for the Filipino fans out there. They had such a good play during the group stage. I hope they can be better the next FIBA Asia cup.
I don't think that the Philippines is the worst performer this FIBA, they just sent a weak team this time as compared to the last previous years specially 2013-2015, I think that's the best team they have assembled but unfortunately they are runners up to Iran and China. Even China also sent a sub par team this year. So its unfair to say that they perform worst.
I haven't heard about Blache issue though, but the Philippines has really miss his services this year. He is one player that the team has been relying in the past tournaments and him not going this year has really affected this performance and landing just 7th place from back to back runner up.
The blowout against korea may have dealt the ph team the loss that crushed their hopes of finishing higher in the tournament. I didn't think it was a weak team and i don't think not having blatche was the reason for the dismal outcome. The low moral was evident in the game against lebanon, a team which they can beat with or without blatche. Sticking to this current lineup may be the key as preparation it seems was just a few weeks before the tournament
Yes, it seems that the team Philippines lack of enough time to really prepare on this tournament and the pressure on their young roster to performed well from back to back 2nd place finish was too much I guess. If I'm not mistaken, they have already beaten Lebanon in the qualifying rounds isn't it? But still the team just landed 7th place when the tournament concludes.
