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For the past month or so, I haven’t been able to update this blog as much and as often as I want to, and there’s one reason for that — work. It’s not that I haven’t been writing. On the contrary, I’ve been writing a whole lot, but my writing just hasn’t been appearing on this blog. You see, for the better part of the past two years, I’ve been fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to write for FIBA.com (first as a columnist and, eventually, in a more significant editorial capacity). It’s all legit and certainly feels awesome, but the tradeoff, so to speak, is that my time to personally update this blog has been diminished. It’s not necessarily a bad thing (far from it!), since I have the freedom to re-post my stuff from FIBA (and other sites) onto this blog. It’s accurate to say, however, that, given everything else that’s to be juggled, things have “leveled up” and, consequently, maintaining the balancing act has been more challenging than ever before.
My planned personal coverage for both the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge and 2016 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, in particular, has taken a hit. It’s actually quite ironic because I constantly wrote on every single competition day, staying up till around 3:00am Manila time (all my writing has appeared on the official FIBA Asia microsites). My usual daily roundups have been absent, though, and I want to kinda make up for that right now. In addition to the roundups, however, you will find team-by-team write-ups (for the FIBA Asia Challenge) and some brief thoughts on the future of Asian hoops.
In part 1, I talked about the Asian teams that played in the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge. Now I’ll present the game reports for the 2016 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, which happened in Chenzhou-Hunan, China. This was the first Champions Cup since 2013.
2016 FIBA Asia Champions Cup Game Reports
DAY 1
AL AHLI over BARSY ATYRAU, 105-68
PETROCHIMI over PAUIAN, 100-80
AL RIYADI over AL RAYYAN, 92-78
XINJIANG over AL SHORTA, 96-69
DAY 2
PETROCHIMI over ONGC, 95-51
AL SHORTA over MALAYSIA DRAGONS, 106-62
PAUIAN over AL RAYYAN, 89-65
XINJIANG over AL RAYYAN, 108-79
DAY 3
AL RAYYAN over ONGC, 95-53
AL AHLI over MALAYSIA DRAGONS, 81-69
AL RIYADI over PAUIAN, 105-81
XINJIANG over BARSY ATYRAU, 97-68
DAY 4
PETROCHIMI over AL RAYYAN, 89-46
AL AHLI over AL SHORTA, 76-74
AL RIYADI over ONGC, 91-65
BARSY ATYRAU over MALAYSIA DRAGONS, 94-61
DAY 5
AL SHORTA over BARSY ATYRAU, 81-67
PAUIAN over ONGC, 101-71
AL RIYADI over PETROCHIMI, 74-63
XINJIANG over MALAYSIA DRAGONS, 124-60
QUARTER-FINALS
PETROCHIMI over AL SHORTA, 88-67
AL AHLI over PAUIAN, 90-80
AL RIYADI over BARSY ATYRAU, 88-69
XINJIANG over AL RAYYAN, 95-84
CLASSIFICATION
PAUIAN over BARSY ATYRAU, 72-64, and AL SHORTA over AL RAYYAN, 90-63
SEMI-FINALS
AL RIYADI over AL AHLI, 107-79
XINJIANG over PETROCHIMI, 90-86
FOR 7TH and FOR 5TH: AL RAYYAN over BARSY ATYRAU, 84-78, and AL SHORTA over PAUIAN, 81-72
FOR 3RD: PETROCHIMI over AL AHLI, 100-74
FINAL: XINJIANG over AL RIYADI, 96-88
In Part 3, I will give some insights and projections on the future of Asian basketball.
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