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INCHEON (FIBA Asia Championship for Women): The most explanatory description of Korea's 97-53 win over Malaysia in Level I on Tuesday, the hosts' third win from as many matches came from the Malaysian coach.

Korean coach Yoo Soo Jong chose to underplay the win saying "just yet another win." But his Malaysian counterpart Tan See Wah was rather evocative.

"This Korean side is playing world class basketball. Forget us, at this rate I don't think it'll take the best from the best to stop Korea from winning the Championship," the senior coach declared.

"We know we have a bigger game against Japan (on Wednesday). So we chose to play within ourselves. There was no point in exerting," Yoo said.

"We had decided we'll make them sweat for a victory. I think we achieved that," said the Malaysian coach. "I had told my girls they need to score at least 50 points in every match here irrespective of the result. And accomplishing that against this Korean team gives me immense satisfaction," he added.

"We tried to stop their shooting. And to a large extent, we succeeded in stopping their inside shots. But handling their long rangers also was a little out of our reach," Tan said.

Scores
Korea 97 (Kim Eung-Jun 29, Kim Se Long 13, Jin Mi Jung 12, Kim Kwe-Ryong 12) bt Malaysia 53 (Chow Siao Fong 14). (Quarterwise: 20-15, 48-27, 70-41).

S Mageshwaran
FIBA Asia