The Gilas Pilipinas vs. Japan match-up will be covered live a few hours from now. The Philippines will open their campaign in the second round of FIBA Asia Championship after their sorry loss against Chinese Taipei.
The Philippines is now part of the newly-formed group, Group E, which includes Chinese Taipei, Qatar, Japan, Philippines, Jordan and Hong Kong.
Here’s our live coverage of the Gilas Pilipinas vs. Japan:
Final Score: Gilas Pilipinas – 90 vs. Japan – 71 Recap & Highlights
Jeff Chan scored a three-pointers. Score Gilas 87 vs. Japan 67 Time 1:31. Gary David scored a three pointers. Score 90-67 Time 43 seconds
Gary David scored his first 2 points of the game. Alapag fouled by JR Sakuragi.
Score: Gilas 82 vs. Japan 65 Time 3:21
Score: Gilas 79 vs. Japan 60, Japan’s ball. Chan missed for Gilas while Japan responded with 3 points. Jimmy Alapag also scored with 3 points.
Jeff Chan scored for Gilas, 79-58, Gilas balls, Castro missed. Japan’s ball, Sakuragi scored 2 points for Japan, leading his team with a total of 17 points. Timeout Japan after a block by Marc Pingris.
Scores: 77-58 Time 7:30 left
Scores: 77-54 Time 8:12 in the fourth quarter
End of Third Quarter: 75-49
End of First Half: Recap & Highlights
Japeth Aguilar already scored two slam dunks for the Gilas Pilipinas team, showing his high-leaping ability that he failed to show during the first three games of the Gilas.
End of First Quarter:
Time Out Gilas Pilipinas: Score Philippines =9 vs. Japan = 8
First two points from Marcus Douthit Score Philippines 2 vs. Japan 0. Jeff Chan added another 2 points for Gilas. Norwood steals, Gabe fastbreak failed, got a foul from Japan. A 6-0 run for the Philippines at the early start of the first quarter.
Gilas vs. Japan Starters:
