Quote from: bisdak40 on Today at 02:43:53 AM

Quote from: Japinat on June 27, 2024, 10:53:03 PM

You watched this tune up game?

Gilas Pilipinas loses to Turkey in well-fought Istanbul friendly

https://www.fiba.basketball/rankingmen
Turkey is ranked 24, 1 lower than Georgia, so this already is a good test on our chance against Georgia. Although we lose but it was a well fought game because we weren't dominated that much. Still a good job by our team, hopefully they'll improve and correct their lapses in that game. I'm just gonna watch the highlights now as that game was too early.

Watch only the highlights of that friendly game against Turkey and you were right, that was a well fought game by our Gilas team as it was a competitive game until the fourth quarter. It was surprising for me that Junemar Fajardo scored 17 points in that game while Kai Sotto which i expected to score more was limited to just a single digit points.

Kai Sotto was only limited because he was in foul trouble, but Kai is not as smart as JMF so we can't really so much from him in terms of points. That was really a good game considering how good Turkey is, and I think we can just continue to bet on the handicap if we want to win. As what my friend shared to me, the handicap was +11.5, which means Gilas were able to cover it.

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Though i expect them to lose against Latvia but i hope they will fight like they did against Turkey.

We have a better chance with Georgia, but a slim chance with Latvia.