Finally!
“Gilas Pilipinas upended Senegal with a down-the-wire 81-79 finish in overtime to finally nab a victory at the FIBA World Cup of Basketball on Thursday, September 4,” reports Dennis Gasgonia on ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report noted that “it was a fitting victory for Gilas, which started the tournament with an overtime loss to Croatia.”
After that, Gilas had “near-wins” against Argentina and Puerto Rico.
Gilas head coach Chot Reyes was quoted as saying, “It’s all heart and secondly Pinoys play a distinctive kind of basketball. It looks like street ball. It looks like bara-bara. Our only chance is to really play a different style, a style that these guys are not used to.”
