Saudi Arabia assistant coach Grigor Grikorian acknowledged that the Saudi Arabian team struggled to match the format of the Lebanese national team in a 60-90 defeat in the Asian qualifier for the Basketball World Cup.

The manager felt that the Saudi Arabian team did their job in the first 17 minutes, playing a good match before the Lebanese team sped up the coordination of the match and forced the Greens to commit 26 turnovers in the match.

When asked how he assesses the team’s performance in this window, the Lebanese coach considered that the team played well against Indonesia, but forgot about today’s match.

As for national team star Khaled Abdel-Jabbar, he believed that the mistakes made by him and his colleagues, especially in the second half of the match, were the main reason for such a large loss, clearly referring to the number of large turnovers made by the team in the match, to the large number was above the average.