Japan's Alvark Tokyo was not able to compete on the two-point area as Al Riyadi really put excellence into, but Japan instead retaliates in a form of some good three-point shots. Japan has better three-point shooters that put them ahead on the scoring board. In the first quarter of their match, Japan immediately takes their chances on leading where they made some successfully three-point shots.
Those efforts really resulted positive and help Japan advance in three points ahead of Lebanon's Al Riyadi. In the opening of the second quarter, there had been a tight match between two teams. There were several substitutions on Japan side to rotate most of their players and possibly experimenting to which of their players do best on the match. The experimentation went so good that Japan has nailed Al Riyadi on the final three minutes of their game.
In the third quarter, Japan started to heat up and made some points more. Al Riyadi, on the other hand, tried to close the gap or even overtake Japan's in scoreboard through some three-point shots but they had not done what they want to accomplished, instead, there were several missed shots from Al Riyadi's side.
On the fourth quarter, Al Riyadi overtakes Japan's score in the middle of the quarter through some successfully three-point shots. It was really an impressive offensive effort for Lebanon to really put a good mark on changing the flow of the game. But Japan takes that challenge and manage to take the lead again due to some achieved fouls from Lebanon.
Japan did gain more shots on free-throws on the crucial minutes while Lebanon was not able to perform well on the final minutes that gives Japan the passage to win the game.
Now Japan has a standing of 1-0 on their Group Bracket will face the Philippines on their next match. I think the Philippines will try to win against Japan since they have already lost their first match against Thailand.
Japan - Philippines basketball match will be one of the most anticipated matches in their bracket. We will seeing some crushing three-point shots from Japan as well as competition of speed and quickness.
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