Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tim Cone admitted that Australia’s superior athleticism and size proved to be a wall too excessive for the Filipinos to beat, because the Philippines suffered an 84-60 blowout loss in their 2025 FIBA Asia Cup quarterfinals clash on Wednesday.
“Little doubt, the Australians’ athleticism and size, despite the fact that you see it on movies, if you get there and begin enjoying them on the court docket, you may understand they’re very superior,” Cone stated.
“And so we simply had a tough time staying in entrance of them and onerous time difficult their threes, they usually moved the ball rather well they usually obtained up pictures fast. They performed at a very good tempo.”
The Boomers clicked from the ground proper from the get-go, with teenager Jaylin Galloway heating up and firing three three-pointers that set the tone for the defending champions.
It was all Australia from that time on, because the likes of Owen Stephen Foxwell, Will Magnay, and Jack McVeigh helped seal one other lopsided win for the Boomers.
Australia dominated in virtually all sides of the sport, hitting 11 triples in comparison with Gilas’ eight, whereas additionally controlling the boards with 57 rebounds to the Filipinos’ 36.
In addition they clamped down on Justin Brownlee, limiting the naturalized ahead to simply 10 factors on solely seven shot makes an attempt. That allowed Kevin Quiambao to take over the scoring load with 17 factors on 5-of-8 taking pictures from deep.
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“In addition they did an amazing job on defending Justin, limiting him to solely seven pictures. So the event is over for us and the large scheme of issues, we’re not happy with what occurred,” Cone added.
“However like I stated, it is a nice workforce to be round and I’m actually proud and honored to be on this workforce and be with these guys however tonight was not an excellent efficiency for us.”
Gilas now units its sights on the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the place they’ll face Australia once more, together with New Zealand and Guam, beginning this November.
—JKC, GMA Built-in Information