China's Sun Yue 9# competes during the men's preliminary group F match of basketball against Uzbekistan at Doha Asiad, Qatar, Dec. 4, 2006. China beat Uzbekistan 91-68. -Xinhua

Chinese cagers beat Uzbekistan 91-68 in Doha on Monday for their second straight win at the Doha Asian Games men's basketball tournament.

Uzbekistan, who lost to Lebanon 106-70 on Saturday, managed to stay within 30-24 early in the second quarter, but China closed the quarter with a 14-3 run for a cushion at 44-27 at the half time.

After the two sides exchanged runs in the third quarter, China went into the fourth leading at 62-49.

Uzbekistan cut its deficit to 10 points early in the final period, only to see China score 13 straight points for an unshakable 78-55 lead with five minutes remaining.

Sun Yue scored 22 points and NBA prospect Yi Jianlian added 21 to lead the Asian champion, who will next play Chinese Taipei on Wednesday.

"Sun Yue played well today," said China coach Jonas Kazlauskas." I am happy that he tried to play good defense, some players like Yi (Jianlian) and Liu Wei also played good defense."

"I feel my shape is getting better and better in recent games," said Sun Yue, the Chinese guard standing at 2.05-meter. "And it's very important that I had some extra shooting training as the coach told me to do."