Prioritizing The Interests Of The Basketball National Team, IBL Moves The Play-off Schedule To August

JAKARTA – All club owners participating in the IBL agreed to shift the playoff schedule to August. The decision was made due to the tight schedule faced by the Indonesian men's national basketball team

The playoff schedule for the national basketball's highest caste was supposed to take place next May. However, at the owners' meeting on March 17, all club owners agreed to shift the schedule for the sake of the Indonesian basketball team.

"This is a form of our support for the national team", said IBL President Director, Junas Miradiarsyah, in a statement received by VOI.

As is known, the Indonesian national basketball team has very busy activities and agendas. In the nearest future, they have to compete in the SEA Games Hanoi Vietnam on May 13-23.

After that, they were busy again to try out to Australia 8-24 June. After the try-out, they have been waiting for the schedule for the match in the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers on July 1 and 4.

In the same month, they will also compete in the FIBA Asia Cup in Jakarta on 12-24 July. The match in the FIBA Asia Cup is quite important for the basketball team because their fate to enter the FIBA World Cup next year will be determined by this competition.

"To focus on facing the FIBA Asia Cup 2022 in a full team composition since the training camp. The target for the national team to reach the top eight positions must be fully supported", said Junas.

The first round of the IBL playoffs will take place between August 11-15. Then followed the second round which took place on August 18-22.