The long road to the Rio 2016 Olypic Games starts today for the Gilas Pilipinas or the Philippine Basketball Team. In order to qualify, Team Gilas needs to win the 2015 FIBA Championships 2015 that is being held in Chagsha China.
For the tournament, Gilas Pilipinas belongs to Group B, where Palestine, Hong Kong and Kuwait belongs. The Philippines need to defeat these teams in order to move forward to the next round of competition.
The Philippine Basketball team is still fresh from the Jones Cup where they won the silver medal, just nest to Asia power house, Iran.
For the first round schedule of games for Team Pilipinas, please see picture below:
Gilas Pilipinas Games Schedule 2015
The opening round games will be telecast live via TV 5, Action 5, and Basketball TV!!!
The Gilas Pilipinas is composed of players Jayson Castro, Ranidel de Ocampo, Gabe Norwood,Asi Taulava, Sonny Thoss, Dondon Hontiveros, JC Intal, Matt Ganuelas-Rosser, and national team rookies Calvin Abueva and Terrence Romeo. The squad will also be powered by Andre Blatche, the Philippine’s naturalized player that has already seen action with the squad on last year’s FIBA World Cup. The team’s coach is Tab Baldwin.
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