Dominicans overcome record crowd, Clarkson to beat Gilas

GILAS Pilipinas defended home court to the hilt until the last three and a half minutes when Jordan Clarkson was whistled an offensive foul by Argentinian referee Leonardo Zalazar. The foul? Clarkson was driving toward the basket and his right thigh was caught between the Dominican Republic's Victor Liz's thighs.…

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The tangling of thighs looked harmless, but it was so tough a call that it sucked the game out of the Filipinos who played before a FIBA record crowd of 38,115 that included President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. “I really love the fight of our players, they competed hard but the disqualification of Jordan [Clarkson] was really a big blow for us,” Reyes said. “But we cannot worry about it now, we have to focus on our next game, a quick turn around for us.”

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