The Philippine national basketball team, Gilas Pilipinas was defeated by China in the finals of the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship. Most basketball experts noted that China’s dirty tricks put the Philippines on losing end, but the Filipinos earned praises from basketball enthusiasts worldwide.
Some of the dirty tricks used by China against the Philippines was shared on social media by Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas president Manny V. Pangilinan as he shared how the host delayed and made some distracting tactics against the Filipinos just a few hours before the gold medal match of FIBA Asia.
Manny Pangilinan or popularly known as MVP complained and posted his sentiments on social media, he noted that the electric bus assigned to transport Gilas from its hotel to the Changsha Social Work Colleges Gymnasium was delayed because it couldn’t run with a discharged battery.
First Pacific Holdings top honcho, Manny V. Pangilinan also said that China denied the Gilas coaching staff tickets and also wondered why the Chinese had separate hotels from the rest of the participating teams including Gilas, saying that it did not conform to the FIBA regulations.
Before the start of the gold medal match between the Philippines and China, the organizers fixed the net of Gilas side while the Chinese were already making their warm-up.
