Bangkok is hosting this week’s tournament as Thailand and their seven guests were divided into two groups with the bottom team being eliminated after the first stage. While this year’s tournament certainly lends itself to a simple and compact format, there is hope that it can grow significantly by the time the tournament is played again in two years. Besides the championship, teams are fighting for the opportunity to replace Taiwan in Division A in the next tournament in 2025.
Group A:
Sunday started with the two games in this group and there was some interest in seeing Mongolia’s reentry into 5×5 play, but they lost to Indonesia 69-52. Fook Yee Yap scored the most points of anyone over the course of the day, but Malaysia lost to Iran, which got significant contributions from the 50 year old Edna Eissaian, won 65-59.
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1308/Indonesia-Mongolia#|tab=boxscore
Indonesia [69]: Pierre-Louis 19/9r Aritonang 8 Lestari 7 Sutjiono 7 Antonio 5 Orville 5 Dewi 5 Anggraeni 4 Retong 3/11a Kusuma 2/9r Karen 2 Shoimah 2
Mongolia [52]: Bat-Erdene 9/8r Nandinkhusel 9 Onolbaatar 8/8r Bayarmaa 7 Baatar 6 Munkhsaikhan 6 Battsooj 5 Undarmaa 2 Murat 0/8r Batkhuyag 0 Tuvshinjargal 0 Erdenebayan DNP
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1308/Iran-Malaysia#|tab=boxscore
Iran [65]: Esmailzadeh 13/7r Rasoulipour 11 Shojaei 10/6r Eissaian 9 Golmohammadi 8 Vakili 6 Shahriari 5/6r Abedi 3 Khodamoradi 0 Ghaffari 0 Yazdian 0 Asadi 0
Malaysia [59]: Yap 28/9r Rajintiran 12/6r Low 4/6r Saw 4 Pang 3 Foo 2 Tan 2 Er 2 Hiew 2 Chia 0 Ooi 0
Group B:
Kazakhstan started strong on their way to a 66-34 win over Sri Lanka. With their naturalized player from last cycle busy, Jordan added Aisha Sheppard to their roster this summer and she was excellent alongside Marya Al Hinn in helping them fend off the hosts 74-71.
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1308/Kazakhstan-Sri-Lanka#|tab=boxscore
Kazakhstan [66]: Yagodkina 16 Bezgodova 14/12r Alishauskaite 9 Gavrilyuk 8/7r Beschastnova 6/7r Bagmet 4 Koroleva 3 Ivanova 2/6r Ilyassova 2 Kapitonova 2 Astapenko 0 Yerkebay 0
Sri Lanka [34]: Ekanayage 9 Sri Wickramage Don 6 Abdul 5 Samarasinghe Arachchige 4/6r Ravindran 4 Morseth 3 Washington 2 Don Thalagala 1 Mills 0 Hinduma Kapuge 0 Direkze 0 Warnakula Arachchilage Dona 0
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1308/Jordan-Thailand#|tab=boxscore
Jordan [74]: Al Hinn 26/11r Sheppard 26/6r/6a Abu Jbara 14/8r Hamadah 4 Najjar 2/11r Abdo 2 Haddad 0 Yaltchen 0 Malkawi 0 Alnoubani 0 Shehadeh DNP Al Shiyyab DNP
Thailand [71]: Udomsuk 19 Naumkong 18 Lumdappang 11/12r Thuamon 10/8a/7s Prajuapsook 6/6r Wongtapha 4 Boonjun 2 Summat 1 Supyen 0 Phetnin 0 Tate 0 Hewchaiyaphum DNP
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