Gilas Pilipinas knew Chinese language Taipei would pose a critical risk even earlier than flying to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup, particularly after the latter outlasted them of their earlier encounter throughout the qualifiers.
Nationwide workforce head coach Tim Cone even mentioned that win by the world no. 73 Chinese language Taipei wasn’t a fluke, stressing the truth that Gilas should be well-prepared the next time they meet on the court.
Come early Wednesday, the Filipinos nonetheless couldn’t resolve the Chinese language Taipei puzzle, falling flat as soon as once more in a 95-87 loss that dealt a major blow to their Asia Cup campaign.
AJ Edu owned as much as the loss, saying the gamers got here up brief regardless of the teaching employees making ready them totally for the sport.
“Clearly a troublesome loss. I believe we acquired punched early and we didn’t punch again,” the 6-foot-10 heart mentioned.
“The coaches may give us all of the schemes and put together us all they will however I believe us guys on the courtroom gotta take accountability as nicely and we simply needed to step up.”
Gilas leaned closely on Justin Brownlee within the first half with the naturalized ahead scoring 16 of the workforce’s 34-point halftime manufacturing as Ying-Chun Chen made life tough on the opposite finish.
Within the second half, Dwight Ramos, Kevin Quiambao, and Scottie Thompson helped ignite the combat inside Gilas.
However turnovers and fouls in the end doomed Gilas on this one.
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The Philippines turned the ball over 16 occasions, which Chinese language Taipei transformed into 18 factors. Gilas additionally gave up 26 fouls towards the 18 of Chinese language Taipei, which accomplished 27 free throws off these infractions.
Gilas, nonetheless, acquired the higher of Chinese language Taipei within the rebound and help departments, gathering 48 boards and 20 dimes towards the 24 rebounds and 12 assists of Chinese language Taipei.
Nonetheless, these weren’t sufficient to flip the change for Gilas as Chen torched them with 34 factors on 6-of-8 capturing from the rainbow nation. Chen additionally acquired an enormous carry from his teammates with Brandon Gilbeck and Ting-Chien Lin chipping in 16 and 14 markers apiece.
“It wasn’t a factor of underestimating them, we knew how good they have been coming to this recreation. It’s simply on us, gamers, to step up figuring out how good they’re,” Edu added.
—JMB, GMA Built-in Information
