No rest for Gilas as it prepares for Mexico in final tuneup

Gilas Pilipinas will waste no time with a couple of days left earlier than it opens its marketing campaign towards Dominican Republic within the 2023 FIBA World Cup on August 25 on the Philippine Arena.

National crew head coach Chot Reyes stated they will not take a break as they’ll put together instantly for the ultimate tuneup sport towards fellow World Cup-bound Mexico on Monday night time on the Philsports Arena.

“Hindi na, tuloy-tuloy na kami, tatlong araw na lang eh,” Reyes stated after they fell to Montenegro in a pleasant on Sunday.

(We’ll proceed, we simply have three days left.)

Gilas will look to upset world no. 31 Mexico and finish their closing stretch of World Cup buildup on a successful be aware.

So far, Reyes had already used 14 of the 16-man pool throughout their two earlier tuneup video games towards Ivory Coast and Montenegro. Against the previous, Ray Parks Jr., Calvin Oftana, and Thirdy Ravena sat out as Gilas pulled off an 85-62 victory with naturalized Jordan Clarkson and massive males June Mar Fajardo and AJ Edu main the way in which.

In the loss to Montenegro, Oftana was fielded for 4 minutes, leaving Parks and Ravena the one gamers from the pool who have not tasted any motion within the tuneup collection, which is about to find out the Final 12 for Gilas.

These friendlies, in response to Reyes, will assist them put together for a a lot tougher marketing campaign within the World Cup. They will first face Dominican Republic on the opening day on August 25 earlier than taking up Angola on the twenty seventh and Italy on the twenty ninth.

—Bea Micaller/JKC, GMA Integrated News