Still licking its wound following its 25-point beating at the hands of Jordan, Gilas Pilipinas will face Qatar in a knockout match on Monday, Oct. 2, with the winner securing a quarterfinal ticket in the 19th Asian Games men's basketball at the Hangzhou Zhejiang University Zijingang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China.
Game time is 4 p.m., with the Filipinos gunning for the all-important win that will keep their gold medal hopes alive in the quadrennial games.Jordan topped Group C after administering an 87-62 beating on Gilas, which saw naturalized player Rondae Hollis-Jefferson fire 24 points, issue nine assists and grab six rebounds to lead the West Asian squad to a three-game sweep of group play.
Its two other assignments saw the Qataris suffer a 95-63 humiliation at the hands of the Japanese, along with a 76-64 defeat to the Koreans.'We have to keep coming to this last game,' stressed the 30-year-old Thompson. 'We still have a chance to enter the medal round soi we just have to learn from this and see what happens next.'A Gilas win over Qatar puts the Philippines to the quarterfinals, where the national squad faces the unenviable task of playing unbeaten Iran.
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