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19th Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou China

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Not only did Gilas win the gold, it also prevented a Middle East team from winning the Asian Games basketball gold medal. Its China & South Korea who always win the Asiad basketball gold medal.
 
Its weird that as dominant as Iran had been the last 15 years they've never won Gold in the Asian Games, buti na lng China & Korea were always there to match them & now its ours hehe
 
B L A C K S U N said:
I have nothing but respect for both of them. The OG gilas with Japs, Casio, Lassiter, Lutz, Tiu, Baracael, and Coach Toroman were the reason I started following basketball. I'll defend these players to death.
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It's the original "Smart Gilas" program that really gave me hope as far as Phi basketball is concerned. From a dismal 9th place finish in the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship & another dismal 8th place finish in 2009 FIBA Asia Championship, the Gilas-1 team of Rajko Toroman put Phi basketball back to a decent placing in Asian basketball by finishing 4th in the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship. The 2007 & 2009 RP teams both PBA-select national teams, supposedly the best players of Phi basketball at that time.

On the other hand, Gilas-1 was composed mostly of amateur players with some PBA players & a Marcus Douthit reinforcing the team.
 
carmelo7 said:
Its weird that as dominant as Iran had been the last 15 years they've never won Gold in the Asian Games, buti na lng China & Korea were always there to match them & now its ours hehe
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The closest a Middle East team could have won the gold in Asian Games basketball was Iran in 2014 (behind gold medalist Korea) & 2018 (behind gold medalist China) & Qatar in 2006 (behind gold medalist China).
 
Congrats everyone!!!!! So hard to sleep i had to take melatonin to be able to sleep because of the joy!
 
From a FB post:


For Tim Cone and the 1998 Centennial Team.
For Jong Uichico and the 2002 Busan Asiad Team.
For Marcio Lassiter and the Smart Gilas Team.
For LA Tenorio and the 2013 Fiba Asia Team.
For June Mar Fajardo, Japeth Aguilar, and the Gilas OGs.
For CJ Perez, Arvin Tolentino, and the 23-for-2023 list.
For Kevin Alas and the Cadets program.
For Ange Kouame and the Tab-coached ACQ Team.
For Justin Brownlee, Chris Newsome, and the 2023 WC Team.

And most of all, para sa bayan -- GOLD!
- Randolph Leongson, @dolphtrythis

#AsianGames #GilasPilipinas
#LabanPilipinas​
 
There is a quote " “Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”

I'm back in internet basketball to congratulate our team and to share my happiness to all Filipino fans for this wonderful victory that we have waited for 61 years. All the pain, trials, suspensions, sorry loses( especially those miss free throws by Racela and buzzer beater three by SK was very traumatic), and politics in basketball we had endure througout the years has now bear fruit. "Thank God. Amen." Congratulations to Team Gilas Pilipinas and thank you for the sacrifice and hardwork. I know it's not a Fiba qualifying tournament anymore but this is very historical competition and old, and it adds a gold medal to our Pilipinas medal haul. Now let us continue to go up and win the Fiba Asia Cup and try our best in OQT to qualify in the Olympics. Let us set our goal to be number one in Asia and at least top 15 in the world no matter how long it takes. God willing it will happen.
 
JAMSKIE said:
Bro, just put it this way, 10 to 15 years from now, nobody wud remember that Japan just sent their national team-B in this tournament & Lebanon didn't join the tournament. What everyone would remember is that the Philippines won the gold, Jordan settled for the silver & poor China satisfied itself with just the bronze medal.​
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But everybody will remember Japan who qualified for 2024 Olympics, not us… that means everyone else in the world still think Japan is the best team in Asia… we should be not contend that winning Asian games gold is the final nail in the coffin.. Asian games competition is not FIBA sanctioned tournament… congrats we won but we still not finish our mission yet… We won Asian games gold medal is already accomplished, But bigger battles that we should look out too, the 2025 FIBA Asia cup and 2027 FIBA WC… playing in the Olympics is still the dream of Filipino fans worldwide…
 
OverratedTabBaldwin said:
Only a casual fan like you would think that Asian Games competition is comparable to World Cup. 55 active NBA players participated in the FIBA World Cup while this Asian Games had zero. I'm still having a cold beer and enjoying this win though because I might not get to experience this again in my lifetime.
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I will be afraid that after this Asian games victory, our national team will no longer have the hungry to win and will lay down the performance post Asian games… we still dreaming on playing in the Olympics and the only way we achieve that is the best Asian team in WC… when Korea won 2014 Asian games, their performance dropped because they don’t have hunger to win games… they were disappointed in 2015 fiba asia cup as they finished just 6th place and still disappointing until now… we should still work hard to achieve the biggest goal of Philippine basketball…the dream to play for Olympic basketball in our lifetime…
 
this is the first Asian gold that had the PBA in existence, in my eyes, Brownlee, Ange hell even Newsome and Scotty are bigger heroes than the PBA's biggest icons, Jaworski, fernandez et al.
 
JAMSKIE said:
It's the original "Smart Gilas" program that really gave me hope as far as Phi basketball is concerned. From a dismal 9th place finish in the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship & another dismal 8th place finish in 2009 FIBA Asia Championship, the Gilas-1 team of Rajko Toroman put Phi basketball back to a decent placing in Asian basketball by finishing 4th in the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship. The 2007 & 2009 RP teams both PBA-select national teams, supposedly the best players of Phi basketball at that time.

On the other hand, Gilas-1 was composed mostly of amateur players with some PBA players & a Marcus Douthit reinforcing the team.
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The first time I've watched Gilas on live TV, it was against Coach Yeng's Powerade Pilipinas team, nilampaso nila mga beterano HAHAH. Also the first time I've seen JV, Tiu, Baracael and Japs play in Gilas uniform. I was so amazed with them back then, specially japs, seeing a tall lanky native Filipino dude shooting threes and dunking so high. It might not be a huge deal today, but A 6'9 athletic big guy who can shoot outside wasn't a thing back then, specially in PBA.

I'm still upset that they sacked Coach Toroman, I thought our performance during 2011 Fiba Asia was decent, kinulang lang talaga against Korea. I think that hugot system ng PBA hurts the chemistry of our team, because the players they chose weren't acquainted to Coach Toroman's offense.
 
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Giannis34GOD said:
But everybody will remember Japan who qualified for 2024 Olympics, not us… that means everyone else in the world still think Japan is the best team in Asia… we should be not contend that winning Asian games gold is the final nail in the coffin.. Asian games competition is not FIBA sanctioned tournament… congrats we won but we still not finish our mission yet… We won Asian games gold medal is already accomplished, But bigger battles that we should look out too, the 2025 FIBA Asia cup and 2027 FIBA WC… playing in the Olympics is still the dream of Filipino fans worldwide…
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Of course we shouldn't be that satisfied with this Asian Games basketball gold medal. I think nobody here in IBN would just be content with this Asiad basketball gold. We want more success!!!!!
 
Everyone think Japan is the best team in asia? Anyone who got the best reasian record by not advancing to second round would be a just a mere wild card..
 
JAMSKIE said:
Of course we shouldn't be that satisfied with this Asian Games basketball gold medal. I think nobody here in IBN would just be content with this Asiad basketball gold. We want more success!!!!!
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Every fanbase will obviously want more and we are no exception but personally Im celebrating first hahaha.
 
B L A C K S U N said:
The first time I've watched Gilas on live TV, it was against Coach Yeng's Powerade Pilipinas team, nilampaso nila mga beterano HAHAH. Also the first time I've seen JV, Tiu, Baracael and Japs play in Gilas uniform. I was so amazed with them back then, specially japs, seeing a tall lanky native Filipino dude shooting threes and dunking so high. It might not be a huge deal today, but seeing 6'9 athletic big guy who can shoot outside wasn't a thing back then, specially in PBA.

I'm still upset that they sacked Coach Toroman, I thought our performance during 2011 Fiba Asia was decent, kinulang lang talaga against Korea. I think that hugot system ng PBA hurts the chemistry of our team, because the players they chose weren't acquainted to Coach Toroman's offense.
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I was also upset that SBP decided to replace Toroman. Kasi naman tayong mga Pinoy eh we have this mentality na "It's either you deliver or you fail to deliver, there's no in-between". The goal daw during the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship was to win a medal and coach Rajko failed to deliver so he has to go.

What most Pinoys didn't realise is the improvement of Gilas-1 having finished 4th in 2011 after the previous teams in 2007 & 2009 editions of FIBA Asia Championship finished 9th & 8th respectively.

Well, at least yung nag replace kay Toroman who is coach Chot steered Gilas-2 to the 2013 Fiba Asia Championship silver medal & a historic stint in the FIBA World Cup after 4 decades of absence. So credit coach Chot for that.
 
Sikatrix said:
Every fanbase will obviously want more and we are no exception but personally Im celebrating first hahaha.
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Same here bro. I'm going to have lunch & drinking gathering with my basketball addict friends today to celebrate. These same friends were with me watching Gilas in the recent World Cup in Manila
 
Giannis34GOD said:
I will be afraid that after this Asian games victory, our national team will no longer have the hungry to win and will lay down the performance post Asian games… we still dreaming on playing in the Olympics and the only way we achieve that is the best Asian team in WC… when Korea won 2014 Asian games, their performance dropped because they don’t have hunger to win games… they were disappointed in 2015 fiba asia cup as they finished just 6th place and still disappointing until now… we should still work hard to achieve the biggest goal of Philippine basketball…the dream to play for Olympic basketball in our lifetime…
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Believe me bro, there's no way our players & coaches will take it easy in future tournaments or window qualifiers after this success in the Asian Games. Nobody gets tired of success. Everybody wants more championships/wins.

Just look at the SMC teams in the PBA, have they ever got tired of winning PBA championship?

Everyone is greedy with success.
 
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