Ali Tawfiq: The national basketball team wins India

According to the Mehr correspondent, the Asian Cup Basketball Competition will be followed by the third window matches in Group E on Friday. In this window, the Iranian national team will face India at Azadi Stadium on the first day (Friday, March 23) and will face Kazakhstan on the eve of March.

Basketball coach Ali Tawfiq told Mehr reporter about the two opponents of the Iranian national team during the matches: “The performance of India and Kazakhstan in the previous windows is such that today they are almost the same with Iran, so that the third window meetings are definitely important to them. He is in the sense that they can win and climb, so they will definitely participate in these games with all the power.

Referring to the match for India, the first opponent of the Iranian national basketball team in this window, he noted: We always had a good game in our matches against India. The same is true for this game.

The Basketball expert continued: The Indians are a good surrounding launcher but under the ring they are not as effective. Under these conditions, our strengths are pivotal or internal players to hit the color of the color and earn points or plan so that we can get closer to the ring.

Tawfiq referred to the absence of Behnam Yakhchali in the squad and said: “In the previous window, we did not have a player and a player like Mohammad Jamshidi. For this window, we also had players' injuries, causing some to join the camp late, such as Arsalan Kazemi; In addition, we do not have Behnam Iqchali in the combination. The player who could have been a good interface between the technical staff and the inside.

He added: “In these circumstances, the players who enter the field must be good directors and have careful management and control all the minutes of the game so that we can be sure of the result.”

The basketball coach also referred to the change in the technical staff of the Indian national basketball team from the first window and the use of an American coach at the top of the technical staff, saying that the presence of the coach had a positive impact on the formation of India. India has good physics players, however, they cannot be said to be technically strong, their throws are good and played on the basis of feeling tactical.

Tawfiq said that the national basketball team wins the match against India, said: “The lack of a prominent player such as Behnam Yakhchali or injury and late -time other players is Iran's disadvantage to play with India, but with all that we have a good training program.” We left behind and I personally consider Iran to meet India.