It would be around four more set of games for each of teams in Asian FIBA Qualifiers and it will gonna determine the final list of teams that would enter FIBA World Cup 2019. Teams Jordan and Japan are in a bit trouble on their current ranking on their corresponding brackets in which they are not in the safe zone wherein the two of them placed on the 4th ranking.
Only top three teams on each bracket will have a chance to secure a position for a World Cup entry. In Group E Bracket, teams New Zealand, Lebanon, and South Korea are in the safe zone while in Group F Bracket, teams Australia, Iran, and the Philippines.
Jordan will face New Zealand twice, while single matches for both China and South Korea. On Jordan's previous match with China and South Korea, they are having a hard time in putting up a challenge which resulted in their loss on both teams. That consecutive loss generated a downside which resulted to fall from their current ranking. While a match with New Zealand will somewhat difficult for Jordan to face, giving them a slight chance of winning.
For Japan, winning against Iran in their home court has been a great progress that results in positive impact to their players and coaching staff, especially that they will be facing again Iran on their future match. Japan has performed high efficiency in the three-point shooting which gives them the edge to keep moving forward towards ranking up to the safe spot and possibly overtake the Philippines.
Japan will be facing Qatar
Japan will be encountering Qatar on their third scheduled basketball match. And I think Japan has the most probability to win in their basketball match if we based it on previous performance that both teams have shown. If we can recall how Japan defeat Kazakhstan, Japan has really effective shooting on field goal areas and also excellent free throw shooters.
Rui Hachimura has been a good player for Japan which can really be effective in terms of scoring and in defense. He has quite a good number of steals during their game against Kazakhstan and if he will able to apply this on their succeeding games, I think Japan still have high hopes for an easy entry for World Cup instead of going into a wildcard matches.
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