
Jordanian coach Evangelos Alexandris proclaimed Iran as the strongest tournament after absorbing their worst defeat in the tournament.
�Today we played with the best team of the tournament. �Maybe, over our heads, we were thinking that we could have won this game,� said Alexandris.
�Iran is a very good team and they have done a very good job but I don�t believe the real difference is what the score states. �I hope we will just get better in the future,� he added.
Meanwhile, veteran Wesam Al-sous stressed the widening gap between Iran and Jordan and called out the officials in their home country to take notice and start working for the improvement of their program.
�I guess there is a big difference now between Iran and Jordan basketball and it continues to widen because in the Iranian leagues they put a lot of money compared to us,� said Al-sous.
�I hope this becomes a message to the people of Jordan and we try to solve our problems so that we can improve,� he added.
Al-sous was a member of the Jordan team in 2011 that struck the biggest upset in the tournament pulling the rug against Iran and parlayed it to a 1st runner-up finish to host China.
The veteran guard apologized to the Jordanian fans and promised to play their best after being relegated to the classification phase of the tournament.
�We�re very sorry to our Jordanian fans and I am really disappointed but tomorrow is a new day and we will try to get the best position we can in this tournament,� he said.
By�Philstar
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