ludhiana team hamamatsu japan comprising india basketball superstar and nba d league prospect amjyot singh gill apart from inderbir singh gill usa bikramjit gill canada and chihiro ikeda japan is through to the knockout stages of the two day fiba 3x3 world tour finals that tipped off earlier thursday evening in abu dhabi uaethe team progressed to the quarterfinals in style having won both its pool c league matches albeit in contrasting fashionhamamatsu bt piran 1918in the first match the side came from behind against piran slovenia to win 1918 in a thrilling last gap effort piran seeded 3rd was ranked much higher than hamamatsu 11th seed and looked in control for most of the game leading 1713 with 105 mins left for the final buzzer thats when the match turned on its head with 45 seconds left first amjyot knocked down a corner three before indoamerican guard inderbir came on in place of ikeda hamamatsu still trailed 1517 and with 96 seconds left in the game inderbir first knocked down an off balance three despite getting fouled hard he then proceeded to make both his freethrows an extra freethrow was awarded as penalty since piran was over the team foul limit to seal the 1918 victory against the run of the playhamamatsu bt gdansk 2112in the second match hamamatsu faced off against gdansk poland buoyed by the previous win hamamatsu started off strong moving the ball on both sides of the floor bikramjit whose offensive production in the first game was limited caught fire early knocking down a three pointer to open the scoring amjyot then took over first with a big block on the three point line followed by a three of his own to tie the game at 44 in the 3x3 game three pointers are awarded two points while two pointers add 1 point to the score not to be left behind super sub chihiro ikeda brought some much needed energy off the bench hitting three threes to get hamamatsu up 139 with 545 mins leftthe play of the match though was reserved for amjyot who in a span of 7 seconds registered back to back blocks in the paint then rushed out to secure the loose ball and drove inside all by himself for an almostdunk like finish hamamatsu led 1610 at this time and smelling blood bikramjit again took over to get his side the easy 2112 winas pool c toppers hamamatsu is through to the quarterfinal rounds on friday where it will face pool bs second placed team to be decided