Gilas Pilipinas continued its mastery over Jordan with a decisive 75-61 victory during their friendly encounter on Sunday at the Al Ahli Sports Club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Filipinos held firm after taking an 11-point lead at halftime, keeping Jordan in check down the stretch thanks to timely triples from Scottie Thompson, Calvin Oftana, Dwight Ramos, and Kevin Quiambao in the payoff period.<\/p>\n
The game served as a rematch between the Philippines and Jordan since their gold medal tussle at the 19th Asian Games in 2023, which the Filipinos ruled by taking a 70-60 triumph to deliver the country’s first gold in more than 60 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It also marked the second straight friendly game for Gilas following their 103-98 comeback win over the Macau Black Bears last Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For head coach Tim Cone, these games serve as a valuable gauge of the team\u2019s readiness for the FIBA Asia Cup next week.<\/p>\n
“Well, I’m just looking for a measurement of where we are in terms of preparedness. So I think that is really the key, to see how prepared we are,” Cone said in a report from the PBA website.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think we’re there yet, but I think these games will go a long way in helping us where we want to get to.”<\/p>\n
The 14-point win over the world no. 35 Jordan was the last tune-up match for Gilas before the Filipinos plunge into Asia Cup action.<\/p>\n
Gilas will open its campaign on early Wednesday against Chinese Taipei before locking horns with New Zealand and Iraq on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2014Bea Micaller\/JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas continued its mastery over Jordan with a decisive 75-61 victory during their friendly encounter on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,5740,27138,85],"class_list":["post-40681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-fiba-asia-cup","tag-gilas-pilipinas","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}