The Australian team won the Asian Basketball Cup title by defeating the Lebanese team in the final match, which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a score of 75-73.
The Australian team forced a fast pace into the match in the first quarter, which allowed progress to be maintained throughout the match, while the awakening of the Lebanese in the last quarter did not help turn the tide, leaving the title out of the Arab treasury. .
The Lebanese team reached the final of the Asian Cup for the fourth time in their career after 2001, 2005 and 2007, beating their Jordanian counterpart with the basket of their leader Wael Arakcji with 11 seconds left in time to equalize. a score of 86-85 in a showdown that brought the two teams together in the semi-finals.
Notably, Arakji was selected as the Asian Basketball Player of the Year in the final match, in which he scored 28 points, and the Australian team crowned the continental competition title in their first and only previous participation in 2017, after unifying him and New Zealand in the Asian competition. to raise the level of competition in the yellow continent.
It was the first ever match-up between Australian and Lebanese teams at the men’s level, two teams to reach the final without losing a match, as Lebanon topped Group D in the first round with three wins in three matches at the expense of the Philippines. , New Zealand and India, ahead of the Chinese giants in the quarter-finals and finally Jordan in the semi-finals, while Australia topped Group A with consecutive victories over Jordan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, then the Kangoroo team defeated Japan in the quarter-finals, then neighboring with Oceania New Zealand in the quarter-finals.
