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                    [ArticleID] => 288621
                    [Title] => Tough grind ahead
                    [Summary] => Philippine basketball team coach Chot Reyes isn’t counting his chickens before they’re hatched.


Sure, the Philippines is off to a flying start with a 4-0 record in the Jones Cup in Taipei but the toughest assignments are still to come. There are five more games in the Philippines’ schedule and the last is against Passing Lane Sports of the US on Sunday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288484 [Title] => 4th win inilista ng RP-SMB [Summary] => TAIPEI, Taiwan – Inilista ng RP-San Miguel Beer ang ikaapat na sunod na panalo sa 27th R. William Jones Cup International Basketball Tournament, makaraang ilampaso ang India, 107-69, sa Taipei Physical Education College gym dito. [DatePublished] => 2005-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288281 [Title] => Reyes waiting for reinforcements [Summary] => With injured guard Willie Miller back in Manila, national coach Chot Reyes said yesterday Jones Cup organizers will allow reinforcements to play in the Philippine basketball team’s remaining seven games in the nine-day, 10-team Taipei tournament.

Only eight players suited up for the Philippines against the Korean under-24 national squad last night. The outcome of the game was not settled at presstime.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287763 [Title] => RP 5 ready for war in Jones Cup [Summary] => LAS VEGAS — National basketball coach Chot Reyes said yesterday the Philippine team will be put to a severe test of endurance by playing nine games in nine straight days at the Jones Cup in Taipei.

Before boarding a Philippine Airlines flight for Manila via Vancouver, Reyes announced that six players from the squad that played five games at the Global Hoops Summit here will suit up for the national team in the annual Taiwan tournament.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => 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] => ) [5] => 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] => ) [6] => 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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