In the first round of Group D of the Asian Basketball Championship, the Lebanese team scored an important victory over their Filipino counterpart with a score of 95-80.

The start of the match was close between the two teams, but the Philippines team managed to break through the defense of the rice team and scored many points, and the wards of coach Jad Al-Haj managed to maintain the atmosphere of the match against the backdrop of the splendor of Wael Arakji and Sergio Darwish to finish the first quarter 27-22.

In the second quarter, the Lebanese team turned the balance of the match in their favor as the Filipino team’s scoring decline accelerated their shots so that the Cedars scored 24 points compared to 12 points for the Philippine team. opposing team, by the end of the first half 46-39.

After a two-half break, the Lebanese team continued to dominate the atmosphere in the third quarter and managed to widen the gap thanks to Hayek’s triples, while the Philippines tried to close the gap, but the Lebanese team’s determination to increase was evident. the difference, which by the end of the quarter reached 21 points with a score of 79-58.

In the last quarter, the Philippine team managed to close the gap, which reached the end of the third quarter, against the backdrop of a decrease in the effectiveness of the “Cedars” in attack and defense, to reduce the difference to 9 points, two minutes before the end of the match, but thanks to the experience of the wards of coach Jad Al-Hajj, they managed to solve the outcome of the match and win the match with a score of 95-80.