Ali Maali (Dubai)
Shabab Al-Ahly team completed the qualifying teams for the semi-finals of the Asian Basketball Champions League, after its great victory over the Chinese Liaoning Flying Leopards, with a score of 97-65, in the last group stage matches of the Asian Champions League, within the first group, raising the “Knights” score to 5 points, With two wins and a draw, occupying the “runner-up” of the group behind the Lebanese Riyadi by 6 points, so Shabab Al-Ahly will meet tomorrow with the Shahr Dari Gorgan team in the semi-finals at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Hall in Dubai at 3:30 pm.
Our team prevailed in the four quarters of the match with a score of 24 – 19.24 – 15.23 – 16.26 – 15. Travin Thibodeau, the American center player for the Knights, continued his balanced performance in the tournament, after he was close to achieving the triple double, scoring 20 points and 13 Follow-ups and 8 assists, and Qais Omar shined, scoring 25 points, and made 14 successful rebounds, and with them was the American Marcus George, who scored 17 points, 13 rebounds, and 5 assists.
While Zhang was the best among the Chinese team, scoring 18 points, 12 rebounds, and two assists, his teammate Mingchen Kong added 16 points, and Huiyu Li 12 points.
Shabab Al-Ahly excelled greatly in imposing control under the basket by achieving 49 rebounds and 70 points. He also scored 21 points from counterattacks and 35 points through substitute players.
In the same group, Al Riyadi finished the group stage with an unbeaten record, after winning by 20 points over the Malaysian Matrix Deers with a score of 108-88, where he stood out in the American match among the winner Zach Lofton, who scored 26 points, 4 rebounds, and 8 assists.
On Friday, the Lebanese Riyadi team will also meet in the semi-finals against the Japanese Hiroshima Dragon Flies at six-thirty in the evening. Riyadi is considered the champion of Final 8 (FIBA Wasl), and the Lebanese league champion is one of the clubs with the most wins in club competitions in Asia, facing the Hiroshima Dragon Flies, the league champion. The Japanese match is the first meeting between the two teams in the history of the game.
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