27th FIBA Asia Championship [Manila, Philippines, Aug 1-11]

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‘Skills, desire, crowd support’ to overshadow Gilas' size disadvantage

By  Solar Sports Desk

                     


Published: Jul/30/2013 4:56 PM PHT
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MANILA -- For Gilas-Pilipinas head coach Chot Reyes, size hardly matters unless you are talking about the size of the heart.
Reyes admitted that the Philippines is undersized coming into the FIBA-Asia Championship, claiming that the lack of height has been the perennial problem of the country in almost any international basketball tilt.
But this Gilas team, which was just formed a few months back, just won’t go down without a fight.
Unfazed, the veteran tactician said that his wards are armed not just with skills but with unparalleled desire to pull the rug from the under against the much bigger opposition.
“We don’t have the size like the other teams. But I think we have the skills and desire to compete and to put our best,” said Reyes. “We have a very good chance of making it to the semifinals.”
Although not gifted with the height advantage that almost all other teams are enjoying, Gilas-Pilipinas will have the homecourt edge.
“I'm sure that we have the crowd support,” said Reyes. “I'd rather play at home rather than elsewhere.”
The much-anticipated event, which is a qualifier for the World Championship in Spain next year, kicks off on August 1 at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Gilas will debut on Thursday against the Saudi Arabia national team at 8:30 p.m. Its next assignment will be against the Jordan team, which will reportedly miss the services of injured main man Sam Daghles. 
Bracketed under Group A, the Philippines will conclude its preliminary round campaign against a strong Chinese-Taipei squad come August 3.

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Reyes admits feeling the pressure as battle nears

                   
                   

Coach Chot Reyes knows the pressure of playing in the Fiba-Asia tournament, having handled the national team that finished in ninth place in the 2007 edition in Tokushima. Jerome Ascano

AS the 27th Fiba-Asia men’s championship nears, Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes admits feeling the pressure to deliver before an expectant hometown crowd.

“We’ve talked about this (pressure) already a long time ago,” Reyes said. “But the first step is to acknowledge and not deny it. And second, we have to focus on the big picture as well as focus on the little things.”

Reyes knows the pressure of playing in the Fiba-Asia tournament, having handled the national team that finished in ninth place in the 2007 edition in Tokushima, Japan.

He was also an assistant to Rajko Toroman in the team that finished in fourth place in 2011 in Wuhan, China.

Now he’s got a shot at redemption, and he looks to work on the final physical, mental, and tactical preparations and how to put it all together.

“We’re in a stage where it’s (preparation) mostly mental. We also want to make sure we keep our physical edge and our sharpness, that’s why we do a lot of running in the track,” explained the multi-titled PBA mentor.

Aside from the help from the Philippine coaching pool including Norman Black, the tactical side of preparations have recently involved former national coaches of other countries.

Reyes says he is appreciative of the fact that veteran international coach Rajko Toroman has given his input, and he recently started consulting with Tab Baldwin in laying down the game plan against groupmates Jordan, Chinese Taipei and Saudi Arabia.

With two international coaching stints with the Lebanon and Jordan national teams in 2010 and 2011 behind him, Baldwin could give Gilas vital scouting reports as they prepare for the Jordanians and Taiwanese in the first round of the elims, Reyes said.

“Coach Tab is not asking for anything. Di niya kailangan ng role or recognition,” said the former Talk ‘N Text head coach, noting that Baldwin arrived last weekend without much fanfare.

“He’s helping where he is needed like to scout here, bounce our ideas off him. So for us, it’s like having coach Rajko there or coach Tim (Cone) there. Somebody who we can bounce our ideas from or of, somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the international game,” he added.

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Revamped Jordan awaits rival Gilas Pilipinas in Fiba-Asia grudge match

                       

IT will be a vastly different Jordan squad the Philippines will be facing in the Fiba-Asia Men’s Championship.

Jordan made it all the way to the final against eventual champion China in 2011 after breaking the hearts of the Philippines in the semifinals - the same Gilas team that beat the Jordanians in the second round.

Now the Arab kingdom parades a revamped team in Group A against the Philippines, Chinese Taipei and Saudi Arabia.

The Philippines and Jordan split their two matches two years ago in Wuhan. The Filipinos won their second-round encounter, 74-62, but the Jordanians won the important semifinal match, 75-61.

Absent from the squad are Sam Daghles and Zaid Abbas as well as naturalized player Rasheim Wright, vital cogs in Jordan’s campaign in past international competitions including the last Asian championship two years ago where they finished second to China.

The only holdovers from the 2011 team are Abdallah Abuqura, Wesam Al Sous, Mohammad Shaher Hussain, and Mahmoud Nzar Abdeen, according to Jordan Basketball Federation secretary general and delegation head Ibrahim Sharawi.

Daghles and Abbas reportedly sustained injuries, while Wright has been replaced by another naturalized player in Jimmy Baxter.

The 6-foot-6 Baxter played for South Florida in college before bouncing around several teams mostly in Europe.

“We have eight players who are young players, and some of them younger than 20 years old,” Sharawi said. “We have some injuries. We don’t have Rasheem Wright but we have another naturalized player.”

Sharawi was non-committal on how Jordan will fare in this year’s tournament. He, however, expects the team to give a good fight especially against the Philippines.

“We hope to have a good job in the Philippines,” said Sharawi.

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FIBA Asia evokes fond memories for TV5 chairman Manny Pangilinan, president Noel Lorenzana

                     

At the helm of TV5, chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan and president Noel Lorenzana are overseeing the broadcast of the biggest basketball tournament in Asia to Filipino basketball fans nationwide.

But for the two men, the FIBA Asia Championship goes beyond business, evoking personal memories from the last time the country hosted the prestigious cage competition.

Pangilinan can still remember the 1973 Philippine team that won the Asian title on Philippine soil.

“At that time I was a spectator. The finals were held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum,” Pangilinan told InterAKTV in an exclusive interview. “Now, we have a wonderful venue here at the Mall of Asia. It feels good to be part of the organizing committee that brought this event to the country.”

(InterAKTV is part of InterAksyon.com, the news website of TV5.)

Pangilinan, who heads one of the country’s largest conglomerates, is a prominent patron of various Philippine sports, apart from serving as president of the country’s basketball federation. He admits that the cost of staging the event in Manila for the first time in 40 years is considerable.

“This is the biggest (investment) we made in terms of a single event,” he said. “I hope the event goes well for the country.”

The business tycoon hopes that the occasion can be used to highlight the country’s proud tradition.

“Dapat siguro natin ipakita yung Philippine team ’73. The younger generation may not be familiar with those names of the team of ’73, but we have to show that. We should know where we came from which is a great origin, the great past of Philippine basketball.

“We have instructed the SBP to invite the members of the ’73 team,” he said, before adding in jest, “at least those who are still alive.”

For Lorenzana, who was appointed president of the network last April, the staging of the event signifies how his fandom has come full circle.

“I feel very happy. Forty years is a long time to wait for an event like this. We know how basketball-crazy Filipinos are,” he said.

“This is very big. Now, I’m excited I can bring my kids to watch and see history like 40 years ago because my father also took me to the games 40 years ago. In the promotional materials we actually showed the game of the ’73 team and put it side by side with the team today.”

He noted that the network’s goal is not merely to inspire fans to cheer for the basketball team, but to stir the patriotic spirit.

“We’re trying to push nationalism, trying to get the people behind the team. Not only on TV, we’re also doing it on social media. We’re actually saying ‘Laban Pilipinas!’” said Lorenzana.

“We’re doing the ordinary folks in the streets, how this means a lot to them. Therefore, it’s really the whole Philippines not just the basketball players. Kumbaga sa atin lahat ito.”

TV5 will broadcast all matches of the Philippine national men’s basketball team live, while other scheduled games will be aired over Aksyon TV.

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Gilas has good chance of making Fiba-Asia semifinals, says upbeat Chot Reyes

                   

FOR someone who’s been there before, Chot Reyes is convinced his Gilas Pilipinas team is capable of making the semifinals of the 27th Fiba-Asia Men’s Championship.

“To make it to the semifinals, I think we have a very good chance,” Reyes said emphatically, finally opening up on the country’s chances for the first time in the qualifier for the 2014 World Basketball Championship.

Reyes handled the Philippine team that finished in ninth place in the 2007 edition of the meet in Tokushima, Japan, and was a deputy of Rajko Toroman when the original Smart Gilas squad advanced to the Final Four of the Fiba-Asia in Wuhan, China two years ago.

The 2011 semifinal stint was the first for a Philippine team in the tournament since 1987 and Reyes is confident his current team will at least duplicate that feat.

But come the semis, Reyes said it’s going to be anybody’s guess.

“Beyond that, any team can beat any team in a one-game situation. Remember that in Wuhan, Jordan upset Iran in the quarterfinals,” he said.

The top three finishers will advance to the world cage meet in Spain next year.

“But let’s just qualify first in the quarterfinals. Because if one team stumbles a little bit, they’re going to get beat, and we’ve seen that so many times in the past,” Reyes stressed.

“It’s really a very level playing field in this tournament.”

The Philippines is bracketed in Group A along with Jordan, Chinese-Taipei, and Saudi Arabia, while the rest of the 11 teams are bunched together in three different groups.

The top three teams in each group will then carry their respective records in the second round, where they’ll be bracketed in Groups E and F.

The top four teams in Groups E and F then advance to the crossover quarterfinals.

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    2013 FIBA Asia Championship Game Schedules

                   


    August 1, 2013

    11:00 a.m. – Mall of Asia Arena
    – Iran versus Malaysia (Group C)
    1:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Jordan versus Chinese Taipei (Group A)
    3:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Japan versus Qatar (Group B) LIVE ON AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 2, 10 a.m.
    5:45 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – China versus South Korea (Group C) LIVE ON AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 2, 12 noon
    6 p.m. — Ninoy Aquino Stadium
    – India versus Bahrain (Group D)
    8:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Philippines versus Saudi Arabia (Group A) LIVE ON TV5
    – Replay on HYPER: August 2, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
    10:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Kazakhstan versus Thailand (Group D)
    August 2, 2013

    11:00 a.m. – Mall of Asia Arena
    – China versus Malaysia (Group C)
    1:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Chinese Taipei versus Saudi Arabia (Group A)
    3:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Japan versus Hong Kong (Group B) LIVE ON AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 3, 6 a.m.
    5:45 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – South Korea versus Iran (Group C) LIVE ON AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 3, 8 a.m.
    6 p.m. — Ninoy Aquino Stadium
    – Bahrain versus Kazakhstan (Group D)
    8:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Philippines versus Jordan (Group A) LIVE ON TV5
    – Replay on HYPER: August 3, 10 a.m.
    10:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Thailand versus India (Group D)
    August 3, 2013

    11:00 a.m. – Mall of Asia Arena
    – Malaysia versus South Korea (Group C)
    1:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – India versus Kazakhstan (Group D)
    3:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Hong Kong versus Qatar (Group B)
    5:45 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Iran versus China (Group C) LIVE ON TV5 AND AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 4, 6 a.m.
    6 p.m. — Ninoy Aquino Stadium
    – Bahrain versus Thailand (Group D)
    8:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Philippines versus Chinese Taipei (Group A) LIVE ON TV5
    – Replay on HYPER: August 4, 10 a.m.
    10:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
    – Saudi Arabia versus Jordan (Group A) LIVE ON AKSYON TV
    – Replay on HYPER: August 4, 6 a.m.

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Iran coach expects 'good guy' Haddadi to be marked man in Fiba-Asia

                     

IRAN admits it will be the favorite in the 27th Fiba-Asia men's championships, but its coaches insist eight other teams are capable of beating them on any given day.

“We’re okay, we know we’re the favorites, but I want to say some other teams are also very strong,” said Iran national coach Mehmed Becirovic during the press launch of the Manila showpiece on Tuesday.

“Eight other (Asian) teams are also teams to beat. We have very good competition this year. Lots of good teams and good coaches, so it’s gonna be exciting."

Becorovic said he has been spending time talking with Iran’s superstar center Hamed Haddadi about handling the pressure of leading the Iranians to a third Asian championship over the tournament's last four editions.

“He’s such a talented player, but he’s also immature, like a kid because every two days, I had to sit with him and talk,” explained the 52-year-old who previously handled the Slovenian national team in 2009-2010.

Becirovic added that the regular talks he’s had with the 7’2” Haddadi were meant to mentally prepare him since every Asian team would try to stop him from dominating the tournament.

“There’s no question with his talent, but it’s how he handles it,” he said.

“Again, all (teams in) Asia expect him to play good so it’s not an easy situation for him to handle. But he’s a good guy, he’s got a good personality, and an excellent player,” he added.

Haddadi has been Iran’s anchor in its run to the 2007 and 2009 Fiba-Asia championships. He was named tournament MVP in both editions.

The 28-year-old Iranian star, who has played for the Memphis Grizzlies and this past season with the Phoenix Suns, has led Iran to a seven-game sweep of the 2013 William Jones Cup early this month.

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Officials, coaches agree as much as eight teams capable of winning Fiba-Asia

                         

THE 27th edition of the Fiba-Asia Men’s Championship may go down in history as the most unpredictable of all.

As many as eight to nine teams are being tipped as contenders for the Asian title as well as the three berths at stake for next year’s World Basketball Championship in Spain.

While defending champion China and Iran are considered the top favorites, the possibility of six others, including our very own Gilas Pilipinas, winning it all cannot be discounted as per the consensus of everybody present during the official luncheon of the biggest cage event in the region Tuesday at the Mall of Asia Arena.

“The beauty and unpredictability of this Fiba-Asia is that any team can beat anybody on any given night,” acknowledged Philippine team coach Chot Reyes as he was joined in the podium by representatives of Jordan, Kazakhstan, Iran, and China.

Aside from the five present teams, also mentioned as top contenders are South Korea, Japan, Chinese-Taipei, and Qatar.

“At least eight teams have this desire to catch those three berths (in the world championships),” said Mehmed Becirovic, the Slovenian head coach of two-time champion Iran. “We have here a bunch of teams capable of winning the championship. Anyone can beat anyone.”





Added Reyes, “That shows you the enormity of the task at hand and the parity of the tournament.”

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Wang, Liu near farewell as mighty China prepares for 'changing of guards'

                     


EVEN with a solid roster anchored on NBA veteran forward Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball officials said they are already preparing for a “changing of the guards” to give way to a new generation of players.

China team manager Zhang Xiong said Asia's top basketball power can't afford to stand still considering several other Asian countries are making giant strides in the sport the Chinese have dominated since 1975.

“We are looking forward in the next couple years to change (the roster) to a younger generation of players to replace the veterans,” Zhang told Spin.ph shortly after the Fiba-Asia men’s championship press conference at the Mall of Asia Arena on Tuesday.

China has won 15 of the last 19 stagings of the Fiba-Asia men’s championships, including the 2011 edition in Wuhan, China, which saw the Chinese squeak past the Jordan national team in the gold medal round.

Zhang also paid tribute to China’s “senior citizens” led by the 36-year-old center Wang Zhizhi and 33-year-old point guard Liu Wei, who are back for another tour of duty along with NBA vetean Yi.

“The experience they have is something is that irreplaceable that is why we need their experience to help the younger players more,” added Zhang.

Wang, the first Chinese to ever be drafted in the NBA in 2001 via the Dallas Mavericks, has led China to Asian Games gold medals in 1998 (Bangkok, Thailand), 2006 (Doha, Qatar) and 2010 (Guangzhou, China).

He also played a key role for the Chinese’s bronze medal finish in the 1997 Fiba-Asia championship, gold medal finishes in 1999 (Fukuoka, Japan) and 2011 (Wuhan, China) as well as a silver medal finish in 2009 (Tianjin, China).

On the other hand, Liu has been a key member of the Chinese national team that played in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Fiba World championships as well as the Olympics in 2004 (Athens, Greece) and 2008 (Beijing, China).

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 isang tulog na lng  ...............
 Laban Pilipinas ..............

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ayun oh ! Start na mya ang Fiba-Asia

eto sked ngayong araw

3:30 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
– Japan versus Qatar (Group B)
LIVE ON AKSYON TV

5:45 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
– China versus South Korea
(Group C) LIVE ON
AKSYON TV

8:15 p.m. — Mall of Asia Arena
– Philippines versus Saudi Arabia
(Group A) LIVE ON TV5


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BTV coverage:

@ 11 am Iran vs Malaysia

@1pm Jordan vs Chinese Taipei

@3pm Japan vs Qatar (replay on Hyper Aug 2, @ 10am)

5:30 pm China vs Korea (replay on Hyper Aug 2, 12noon)

8:30pm GILAS vs Saudi (replay on Hyper Aug 2, 2pm)

10:30pm Kazakhstan vs Thailand

For complete schedules of games .

See Here

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2013 FIBA Asia Championship - End of 3rd Quarter

Iran 91 - Malaysia 15 . . .

masaker amp !


Edit :


2013 FIBA Asia Championship - FINAL
Score
Iran - 115 vs Malaysia - 25


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* 2013 FIBA Asia Championship - End of 1st Quarter

Chinese Taipei 26 - vs Jordan 20

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FIBA ASIA UPDATE:

TPE 91 JOR 87

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 nice upset by korea to the depending champion china ..........