Team Pilipinas Blasts Sri Lanka in FIBA-Asia Opener
Team Pilipinas blasts Sri Lanka with a monstrous score of 115-31 in the opening game of 25th FIBA-Asian men’s basketball championship Thursday in Tianjin, China. They played a terrific game that a win today in able them to have an automatic semi-finals slot in the on-going FIBA-Asia tournament. But first, they must play really hard to win their remaining games for them to qualify in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Japeth Aguilar is RP’s New Basketball Player Sensation
Japeth Paul C. Aguilar is a Filipino amateur basketball player which was born on January 25, 1985. He is currently playing for the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers in the division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. He is the first Filipino-born basketball player ever to be recruited by a Division I program. Japeth is a son of former Philippine Basketball Association player named Peter Aguilar.
In college, before he went to the United States, he played for the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines in 2004. However, his first season stint was cut short due to appendicitis.
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Powerade Team Pilipinas Had Their First Loss against Jordan in Jones Cup Debut
The Powerade Team Pilipinas out-hassled by Jordan in the midst of second-quarter breakaway and never recovered in a disappointing 90-59 loss to open its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup.
The Nationals started strong in the few minutes of first quarter and only trailed by two points 17-15 at the end of this quarter. It has been a very close game until Jordanian’s 6-4 point guard Rasheim Wright started to play a tremendous game in both offense and defense by cutting the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting screens that set up their outside shots clearly breaking Team Pilipinas’ man-to-man defense.
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