AMMAN — Jordan’s first-division basketball team trumped
Qatar (69-57) in a friendly that put the two teams face to face at the Prince
Hamzah Hall on Monday.
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The match sought to prepare players for the final window of
the 2021
FIBA Asia Cup in Indonesia.
In remarks to Jordan News, national team coach Marwan Matouq
said: “We are very confident in our players, their performance has started to
improve and they are playing with more chemistry, but we are still waiting for
them to complete their mission.”
“We tried 15 players throughout the game and the team’s
offense and defense have both improved, in contrast to their last game, but I
still think they can do better,” Matouq added.
Jordan nabbed the advantage against Qatar in the first
quarter of the game (24-16) then continued to outplay their Qatari counterparts
in the second (21-10), third (14-13) and final (18-10) quarters of the match.
A number of fresh Jordanian faces played against Qatar,
including Mahmoud Al-Hazaimeh, Ibrahim Hamati, Khaled Abu Aboud, Ghaith
Al-Faraj, Ayman Khaled and Mahmoud Darwish.
Jordan is set to host the Group E and Group F qualifier
matches between June 12 and June 14, which will see the Kingdom’s team vying
for a qualification card in games against Palestine (June 12), Kazakhstan (June
13) and Palestine again (June 14).
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