India bowed out of the FIBA Asia Cup males’s basketball championship at Jeddah on Saturday, with a third-straight defeat in Group-C, dropping 59-84 to host Saudi Arabia. China completed first within the group and straight entered the knockout (quarterfinals) whereas Saudi Arabia completed second and Jordan third.
India put up a very good combat within the first quarter, 24-25, with Palpreet Singh Brar enjoying a significant function in defence and scoring two-pointers at common intervals.
The host raced away within the second quarter and from there it by no means regarded again because it took a 14-point lead (41-35). Poor turnovers didn’t assist India’s trigger as Saudi continued to pile strain with constant scoring, each 2-pointers and 3-pointers.
If in any respect India needed to combat and scale back the lead, it needed to be within the third, and right here, too, the customer fell brief because the host’s defence was top-class. A 3-pointer from Harsh Dagar did increase some hopes at 36-47 early within the quarter.
A lot was anticipated from ahead Pranav Prince and he disillusioned. Saudi took a 19-point lead when Abdur-Rakhman scored a three-pointer. India simply went by the motions within the fourth and last quarter.
The outcomes:
Saudi Arabia 84 (Marzouq Almuwallad 12, Abdur-Rahkman 14, Abdel Gabar 10, Md. Alsuwallem 15, Musab Tariq Kadi 10) bt India 59 (Palpreet Singh Brar 20).