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Team Phl mabigat na laban ang haharapin vs Japan

- Joey Villar, Nelson Beltran -

GUANGZHOU - Naka­tak­dang harapin ng Smart Gilas Team Pilipinas ang Ja­pan ngayong gabi matapos gitlain ang Qatar noong Miyerkules para sa tsansang makapasok sa Final Eight ng 16th Asian Games basketball competition.

Magtatapat ang mga Filipino cagers at Japane­se dribblers sa alas-9:30 sa Huangpu Gym­na­sium.

Nagmula ang Smart Gi­las sa 90-68, habang ti­nalo naman ng Japan ang back-to-back Fiba Asia champion Iran, 57-56.

“Japan really looks good but if we play as we did against Qatar, there would be no problem,” wika ni Smart Gilas Phl team manager Frankie Lim.

Tangan ng Japan ang 2-0 rekord sa Group F ka­sunod ang Smart Gilas (1-1), Iran (1-1), Qatar (1-1) at Chinese-Taipei (1-1).

“We hope to sustain our good shooting. If we can do that, we’ll get our game going and we can well compete against the Japanese,” ani Smart Gilas Phl operations chief Butch Antonio.

Ipaparada ni American coach Thomas Robert Wisman para sa Japan sina da­ting Phoenix Suns guard Yuta Tabuse at ang kambal na sina Joji at Kosuke Takeuchi.

Wala na sa lineup ng Japan si 7-foot-2 Behemoth Fumihiko Aono ngunit may apat na players namang may taas na 6-foot-7.

Tinalo na ng Japan ang Smart Gilas, ibinandera si American Marcus Douthit, 84-74, sa nakaraang Jones Cup.

Sa Fiba Asia champion­ship (dating ABC champion­ship), dalawang titulo na ang nakukuha ng mga Ja­panese subalit hindi na ito naulit matapos sumegunda sa Koreans sa 1997 meet sa Riyadh. Ang Illinois native na si Wisman ay dating nagmando sa British at Malaysian national teams.

AMERICAN MARCUS DOUTHIT

ANG ILLINOIS

ASIAN GAMES

BEHEMOTH FUMIHIKO

BUTCH ANTONIO

FIBA ASIA

FINAL EIGHT

SHY

SMART GILAS

SMART GILAS PHL

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