Tim Cone to coach Gilas Pilipinas in Asian Games

Tim Cone to coach Gilas Pilipinas in Asian Games

Tim Cone to coach Gilas Pilipinas in Asian Games

Decorated tactician Tim Cone will name the photographs when Gilas Pilipinas competes within the Asian Games later this month in Hangzhou, China.

Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and the PBA on Thursday introduced the event as Cone will take the reins from outgoing head coach Chot Reyes. Reyes earlier stated he’s stepping down from his put up following the nation’s marketing campaign on the 2023 FIBA World Cup.

Cone, a 25-time PBA champion coach, is not any stranger to main Gilas Pilipinas.

The 65-year-old tactician final led the Philippines in the course of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games right here in Manila, the place the Filipinos dominantly bagged the gold medal. Up till now, Cone served one among Reyes’ deputies and was a part of the teaching employees in the course of the World Cup.

In 1998, he was additionally on the helm as he steered the Filipinos to a bronze medal throughout that 12 months’s Asian Games version in Bangkok, Thailand.

—JMB, GMA Integrated News

Source: www.gmanetwork.com