2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament

[The_Big_Cat]

Latvia is 6th ranked and Philippines 37th ranked. After this tournament we would definitely improve our ranking.

[Marsh Mello]

I am just shocked and awed at what happened haha. Possibly the biggest upset by an Asian Team in FIBA history so far.
All those learning experiences, drama and introvoys moments paid off!

Now go rest right away and put an even better fight tomorrow Gilas!

[sroth3839]

i guess Kai is right when he mentioned he loves playing for Cone and alot of things seem to click for him.

Chot’s abangan big man style was a problem from the get-go.

The guy needs guards in the league of Donovan Mitchell, Ant-Man, and J-Murray for his system to work.

I disagree that Chot is the Pinoy Doc Rivers.

More like the Pinoy D’Antoni.

[IPC]

Do we need to ein against Georgia or are we in the next phase?

Georgia are -28 right now, losing with 27pts still means we are going semis. I don't think we are going to lose though.

Its Is and Latvia so long as we dont get blown out by Georgia and lose hy 45 points or more,

Here's the quotient:

LAT: +19
PHI: +9
GEO: -28

We can't let Georgia win by 19 points or more. We have to go for it to ensure a knockout appearance.

[JOI2dWorld]

Imagine being a basketball country playing at your homecourt after a historic 5th place world cup. Why the hell would they lose the game in purpose. Someone who said that must been dumbest of dumb.

it's not latvia he is suggesting to throw the game but Gilas, as Latvia was destroying Georgia last night he said that it's better to play the main guys with limited minutes and just focus on our game against Georgia, and even compared those times that CTC chose to tanked games in the PBA

[gospursgo]

They play a different style of ball that matches up more with our bigs, going to be tough

Damn forget they got Mamu, goga and former brooklyn net shengelia.

[PeeZones]

Our team can always be world class. Bad coaches, bad sbp and bad pba are the real mof*s.

Just backfill the needed players, and well, we can try to defeat the usa in good time...

It is as expected: they cant handle kai, abay, brownlee, newsome and ramos. Bwahaha...

Apparently, i am the only one who knew and believed our team will win. And we can power up to 300% like taguro. Ye of little faith, and even less knowledge of euroball...

The olympics require only pinoy passports, our nba players and mobile young big forwards and solid 3point shooters can play!!!

Dont get me wrong. This team has strong character. The one and only real rock of ages that my tired eyes has seen from pinoys so far. At last, i can stop watching and waiting for pinoy ball excellence.

But to defeat all higher ranked all-comers nts, we still need to upgrade. Besides, if we make it to the olympics, a lot of good players will want to play with our nt.

You are not alone. Those who truly believed we could achieve something were blocked by short-sighted individuals here. Haha.

Kai will get there for sure.

Small ball is becoming obsolete!

I was just five years ahead! Haha

We have our own gc you could join us!haha

[PeeZones]

How is it an upset when we were leading the entire game by double digits?! We crushed Latvia. Haha. Calling it an upset is an insult!

[zairex]

seeing this performance made me think CTC would've definitely blown out Angola and beaten Italy, I like to believe we would've beaten DR too but just because we're good against a European team won't necessarily translate to a latam team.

Don't forget about everyone contribution and Brownlee over JC. Chemistry over talent.

[sroth3839]

Damn forget they got Mamu, goga and former brooklyn net shengelia.

We need our shooters to click.

Oftana, Perez, Dwight, and even Kai have to hit their shots.

It’ll be an interesting game.

[lem0nadi]

Here's the quotient:

LAT: +19
PHI: +9
GEO: -28

We can't let Georgia win by 19 points or more. We have to go for it to ensure a knockout appearance.

Doesn't Georgia needs 37 pt lead win to advance? We are ahead by +9 against them as of now then they are -28 which means 28+9 = 37. Correct me if I am wrong but don't need a 37pt win?

[gospursgo]

We need our shooters to click.

Oftana, Perez, Dwight, and even Kai have to hit their shots.

It’ll be an interesting game.

Not really familiar with any of the Georgian guards but i agree, the offense needs to hot early on like it was tonight. They should gun for the win and not settle for less.

[yogaflame]

If Bronny is in NBA. Kai and Brownee and even the Kraken deserves a NBA contract. By the way finally we have respect from European teams, we finally hve a template how to beat European teams and big and tall teams from the West.

[hmbopbaduwap]

https://x.com/gerardmos/status/1808568840672202796?t=-CH1feRq1GDeguGD8faiSw&s=19

As per FIBA records, the win over Latvia was the first for a PH team against a European squad in 64 years or since it beat Spain in the 1960 Olympics, 84-82 @spinph

[EIG]

Oh men, still in awe of what Gilas showed tonight. Finish strong against Georgia!