Tim Cone wants more recognition for Gilas Women

In the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Gilas Pilipinas Women will compete in tourney for the primary time since 1998 and Gilas Pilipinas males’s head coach Tim Cone himself referred to as for extra recognition for his or her counterparts.

As the 2 nationwide groups held a joint open observe on Thursday,  Cone praised the ladies’s group after what he has seen within the Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia final May the place they completed with a silver medal.

“I’m a big fan of Pat Aquino as a coach,” Cone advised the media on Thursday. 

“I just love the way he gets to his girls to play with heart, they’re in every possession, they’re super together and you can jut see the support that they have and they have great culture that they have developed.

I’m a big fan of theirs. I think we need to recognize that more as a nation. These girls are out there, doing what we do everyday, fighting and practicing, going in the weight room, doing everything they can to get better,” he added.

Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tim Cone referred to as for extra recognition of the Gilas Pilipinas Women’s group: I’m an enormous fan of theirs. I feel we have to acknowledge that extra as a nation. @gmasportsph @gmanews pic.twitter.com/S5javgJrRP

— JK Carandang (@jk_carandang) September 14, 2023

Cone stated that with the open observe and being with the ladies’s group, hopefully, gamers can be motivated to play as “it’s all bigger than us.”

Aquino, in the meantime, is grateful to Cone for the chance.

“[It’s an] awesome feeling being side by side with the men’s team for the first time,” stated Aquino. “Only the men’s has this kind of thing and the women’s now has the opportunity to show themselves. I’m just happy for the girls.”

“Hoping that this is one big step going to the Asian Games na sama-sama kaming lalaban para sa bayan.”

(Hoping that is one large step going to the Asian Games that we’re collectively combating for the nation.)

Gilas Pilipinas males will open their marketing campaign towards Bahrain on September 26 whereas the ladies’s group will tackle Kazakhstan on the twenty eighth.

—JKC, GMA Integrated News