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                    [ArticleID] => 288438
                    [Title] => How RP 5 fared in Summit
                    [Summary] => LAS VEGAS — It was a familiar, if not annoying, refrain. Whenever the Philippine national basketball team moved around as a group outside the playing arena, passersby asked if they were soccer players. That’s because they looked too small to be cagers by US standards.


In fact, the Philippines was the smallest among 10 entries at the recent Global Hoops Summit held in the Cox Pavilion on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas campus.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287929 [Title] => Chinese giant out of Jones Cup [Summary] => LAS VEGAS — Chinese giant Sun Ming Ming is out of the Passing Lane Sports lineup for the Jones Cup in Taipei.

The 7-8 3/4, 365-pound center played for Passing Lane in the Global Hoops Summit that ended here last Wednesday. He averaged 3.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 12 minutes in five games. Sun shot .571 from the floor and .500 from the line.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286935 [Title] => RP 5 makes rousing Las Vegas debut [Summary] => LAS VEGAS — Displaying unselfish teamwork, the Philippines used an unforgiving full-court pressure defense and precise execution to overcome a severe size handicap and upset the Aoshen club of China, 80-65, in a scintillating debut at the first-ever Global Hoops Summit in the Cox Pavilion on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas campus Saturday night (yesterday morning, Manila).

No team is shorter than the Philippines, whose average height is 6-3, and no team is taller than Aoshen, bannered by two 7-1 centers, two 6-10 power forwards and two 6-9 wingmen.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286782 [Title] => Tough grind starts today for RP 5 in Vegas [Summary] => LAS VEGAS–Five games in five days. That’s the grueling grind facing the Philippine basketball team in the first-ever Global Hoops Summit at the Cox Pavilion on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) campus. The Filipinos make their debut here against the Aoshen club of China at 10 this morning (Manila time).
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286438 [Title] => Aoshen first in RP 5’s Vegas sked [Summary] => It’ll be an early baptism of fire for the Philippine team at the Global Hoops Summit in the Cox Pavilion on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas campus starting tomorrow (Sunday in Manila).

Before boarding the Philippine Airlines flight bound for Las Vegas via Vancouver yesterday afternoon, national coach Chot Reyes said he was informed by organizers the Filipinos are scheduled to play the Aoshen club of Beijing in the 7 p.m. mainer of the Summit’s inaugural five-game bill.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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