Gilas Pilipinas and Australia are on a collision course once more, seven years after their controversial brawl on the Philippine Enviornment in Bulacan.
Gilas and the Boomers will duke it out within the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday with the latter out to maintain their bid for a 3rd consecutive gold medal alive whereas the Filipinos are looking for to drag off a significant upset.
“We all know that they’re the beautiful a lot the primary seed within the event and for us to beat them is gonna be an upset,” Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tim Cone on the heels of their 95-88 win against Saudi Arabia early Tuesday.
The Philippines and Australia have confronted off 5 instances in FIBA tournaments, most not too long ago throughout the 2019 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers right here within the Philippines—a sport overshadowed by a bench-clearing brawl.
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FILE PHOTO. Mathew Wright (L) of Gilas Pilipinas engages Daniel Kickert of Australia in a fistfight throughout their FIBA World Cup Asian qualifier sport on the Philippine Enviornment in Bocaue, Bulacan on Monday, July 2, 2018. Australia received by default, 89-53. AFP/Ted Aljibe
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FILE PHOTO. Gilas Pilipinas and Australian gamers have interaction in a brawl throughout their FIBA World Cup Asian qualifier sport on the Philippine Enviornment in Bocaue, Bulacan on Monday, July 2, 2018. Australia received by default 89-53. AFP/Ted Aljibe
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The sport noticed 13 gamers and two coaches ejected and slapped with suspensions from worldwide play, together with Japeth Aguilar, Matthew Wright, Terrence Romeo, Jayson Castro, and Andray Blatche.
Australia would run away with victory by default, 89-53, after the Philippines was left with solely three gamers in June Mar Fajardo, Gabe Norwood, and Baser Amer, they usually dedicated intentional fouls to get disqualified.
Each groups now sport utterly completely different seems. The Philippines has solely two holdovers from that squad in Fajardo and Aguilar whereas Australia has none.Â
The Boomers, now bannered by Jack McVeigh, Jaylin Galloway, and Reyne Smith, are the favorites to win the sport because the two-time defending champions stay unscathed to date within the event, beating South Korea, Lebanon, and Qatar to finish a sweep of Group A to punch an outright quarterfinal berth.
Gilas, in the meantime, suffered two slender losses to Chinese language Taipei and New Zealand and wanted to drag off essential victories over Iraq and Saudi Arabia to achieve the quarterfinal spherical.
—JMB, GMA Built-in Information
