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I have question for the loyal reader in this forum. At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, I’ve ad the opportunity to see Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in action.



I was very impress with their performance as they did bring a lot of European influence into their game. However I found it hard to get more info or details on them.



Perhaps some of you out there can help me on this



But yet again I’m still puzzled why despite with advantage in terms of height and physical, they still struggle against traditional Asian powers such as China, South Korea or Iran.

We have an Asian forum so I moved this topic there. I am not sure about the level of these two teams but I guess it is quite low. I am presuming this because Rimas Kurtinaitis was in charge of Azerbaijan and their players didn't even know all the basketball rules. You should check <!-- m --><a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.fibaasia.net">[url="http://www.fibaasia.net"]http://www.fibaasia.net[/url]</a><!-- m --> for more information.

Anton Ponomarev is a player to watch from Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan had improved a lot in the last Fiba Asian championship,they were the fourth in the standings after loosing by 4 pts against S.korea (3/4 placing match)

I have been watched Kazakhstan many times,only Antony Ponomarev(18 years) leave a good impression for me.



Usbekistan ,it wasn't a part of Asian champ 2007,Lebanon been played with Usbekistan in Doha games 2006 when we won by 46 pts.