Sunday, November 28, 2010

Smart Gilas at the Asian Games




Smart Gilas Pilipinas is a developmental Philippine national basketball team sponsored by Smart Communications and the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP). The team is bannered by collegiate and amateur standouts whose ultimate goal is to reach the 2012 London Olympics. The team, formed in early 2009 to instill a long term program for the Philippines men's national basketball team, is coached by former Iran national basketball team coach Rajko Toroman.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Gilas

 Smart Gilas Pilipinas finished a disappointing 6th place finish in the recently concluded Asian games in Guangzhou .

Here's the 12 fielded players in the said competition , consisting of amateur players combined with 3 pro players from the PBA to beef up the squad . They also appointed Talk N' Text(PBA) coach Chot Reyes as their assistant coach.

G - Jayvee Casio
G - Chris Tiu
G - Mark Barroca
G - Solomon Mercado* 
G/F - Marcio Lassiter
G/F - Chris Lutz
F - Mac Baracael
F - Kelly Williams*
F - Japeth Aguilar
C - Greg Slaughter
C - Asi Taulava*
C - Jason Ballesteros

*Players loaned from the PBA


Summary of Games(PHI)
November 13, Saturday
Men's Qualifying Round
Group B Game 2 vs Kuwait - WIN 76-69
Best Player(PH) - Kelly Williams 11pts 10 rebs
Full Boxscores: HERE


Group E                                            

China                                                  
Korea                                                 
Jordan                                                
DPR Korea*                                      
Mongolia*                                          
Uzbekistan                                     

Group F

Japan 
Iran
Philippines* 
India*
Qatar
Chinese-Taipei

*Qualified for the Asian games

November 16, Tuesday
Men's Preliminary Round
Group F Game 9 vs Iran - L 48-65
Best Player(PH) -  Kelly Williams 8pts 13rebs
Full Boxscores: HERE

November 17, Wednesday
Men's Preliminary Round
Group E Game 13 vs Qatar - W 90-68
Best Player(PH) - Jayvee Casio 22pts 5asts
Full Boxscores: HERE

November 19, Friday
Men's Preliminary Round
Group F Game 21 vs Japan - L 58-60
Best Player(PH) - Kelly Williams 12pts 12rebs
Full Boxscores: HERE

November 21, Sunday
Men's Preliminary Round
Group F Game 28 vs India - W 78-57
 Best Player(PH) - Asi Taulava 10pts 9rebs 2blks
 Full Boxscores: HERE

November 22, Monday
Men's Preliminary Round
Group F Game 34 vs Chinese Taipei W 82-73
Best Player(PH) - Asi Taulava 18pts 12rebs
Full Boxscores: HERE


Here's the standings after the preliminary round




QuarterFinals:
E1 vs F4
E2 vs F3
F1 vs E4
F2 vs E3


Nov 24, Wednesday
Men's Quarterfinal
Game 35 vs South Korea L 66-74 (Knockout Match)
Best Player(PH) - 23pts 10/14 FGs
Full Boxscores: HERE

Nov 25, Thursday
Men's Placings 5th-8th
Game 40 vs DPR Korea W 96-69
Best Player/s(PH) - Chris Lutz 15pts 10rebs 6asts
                               Greg Slaughter 18pts 13rebs 2blks
Full Boxscores(PH) - HERE

Nov 26, Friday
Men's Placings 5th-6th
Game 44 vs Qatar L 71-81
Best Player(PH) - Asi Taulava 13pts 19rebs
 Full Boxscores(PH) - HERE
Here's how the quarterfinals-finals matches turns out

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