Gilas counters Thai shooting with inside dominance

Gilas Pilipinas needed more than three full quarters to solve the riddle of Thailand and Tyler Lamb Thursday, going without a clue before finding the answer in the last six minutes for a runaway 87-72 victory in the 19th Asian Games at the Zhejiang University Zijingang Gymnasium.

Jordan, powered by TNT Tropang Giga import Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, routed Bahrain, 84-60, and stayed unbeaten as well in the preliminaries, setting up an all-important clash with Gilas on September 30, Saturday, at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center. “But he is such a trooper and he’s playing through it for only one reason: ‘cause he’s on the national team. If he’s not playing for the national team, he wouldn’t be playing. So give him credit.”

The 16-2 run, fueled by 3-point bombs launched by Lish and then Lamb, would be best remembered for the scene wherein Lamb had turned to mock the Philippine bench after burying his sixth triple.Lish kept the pressure on, though, knocking down his fourth 3-pointer to keep it a three-possession match, 75-68. But the Nationals pounded the offensive boards after each missed attempt and put together a 7-2 closing spurt that took the fight out the Philippines’ chief rival in the Southeast Asian Games.

“He came out and changed defenses on us, kinda confused us a bit,” said Cone. “We just have to rely on the skills of our players to make plays because we didn’t have much done in execution because we were so confused with the changing defenses.”

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