RP VS. KAZAKHSTAN GAME STORY
Team Standings
KOREA 2 0
JORDAN 2 0
TAIWAN-A 2 0
IRAN 1 0
LEBANON 2 1
RP 1 2
JAPAN 0 2
KAZAKHSTAN 0 3
TAIWAN-B 0 2
Games Tuesday
1 p.m. – Kazakhstan vs. Lebanon
3 p.m. – Japan vs. RP
5 p.m. – Taiwan-B vs. Iran
7 p.m. – Jordan vs. Taiwan-A
TAIPEI – Stripped bare by Jordan and pushed to the brink by Taiwan in its first two outings, Powerade-Team Pilipinas rebounded with vengeful resolve Monday, blasting Kazakhstan, 85-67, in the 31st William Jones Cup tournament at the Hsinchuang gym.
The victory restored a measure of respect for the Nationals who suffered one of their worst beatings at the hands of the defending champion Jordanians – a 31-point loss Saturday – and a heartbreaker to host Taiwan Sunday.
Willie Miller, stepping up at the point guard spot while Jayjay Helterbrand feels his way back from a hamstring pull, led the RP team with 13 points, five rebounds and five assists.
Ranidel de Ocampo, 5 of 6 from the floor, added 11 points, along with 6-foot-10 Japeth Aguilar, who punctuated the breakout win with a number of rim-bending dunks.
“We’re just happy to win,” said national coach Yeng Guiao. “The important thing is we’re improving everyday, and we hope to get better in the next few games.”
The Philippines takes on long-time Asian rival Japan at 3 p.m. Tuesday in a battle of teams bracketed in Group A of the 25th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Tianjin, China next month.
“Am I happy? Not totally because we lost our first two games in a bad way,” Guiao said. “But the prospects are good. Ang importante, me laban tayo sa Japan at Korea. We’ll focus on that first.”
After Lebanon on Wednesday, the Nationals face South Korea, which barely scraped past Kazakhstan, 75-73, in the opener.
Helterbrand returned after sitting out the first two games, putting aside tenseness in his left thigh in contributing seven points, two rebounds, two assists and a steal in 17 minutes.
“It feels good to be back trying to help my RP teammates,” said Helterbrand, his thigh wrapped in an icepack.
Oleg Kiselev, one of the Kazakhstan coaches, complimented the RP team’s aggressive running game and second half zone defense.
“They showed fantastic basketball. We couldn’t handle their fast break game,” Kiselev said through an interpreter. “We also struggled against their zone and we couldn’t fight till the end of the game.”
The Kazakhs are bringing with them to the Tianjin tournament three additional players – two big men and a point guard – and could face the Philippines again if both of them reach the quarterfinal round.
No Philippine team has beaten Kazakhstan dating back to the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games where it lost to Tim Cone’s RP-Centennial squad.
The Kazakhs beat out the Nationals for third place in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, a game the RP team went through will little emotion after losing to South Korea in the semifinal on a buzzer-beating 3-point shot by Lee Sang-Min.
A far cry from the nature of their first two starts, the Nationals came out blazing, opening a 22-12 lead in the first quarter on the way to several 20-point spreads, the last on a De Ocampo fast break layup, 78-58, with four minutes left.
In an earlier game, defending champion Jordan double-teamed the prolific Fadih El-Khatib throughout in a 73-63 victory over Lebanon for its second straight win.
After scoring an average 32.5 points in their first two wins, the veteran Lebanese forward was held down to 14 points on 5 of 14 shooting.
Scores:
POWERADE-RP 85 – Miller 13, Aguilar 11, De Ocampo 11, Yap 9, Thoss 8, Norwood 7, Helterbrand 7, Baguio 6, Raymundo 6, Santos 5, Dillinger 2, Taulava 0.
KAZAKHSTAN 67 – Dmitriy 23, Alexandr 16, Rustam 12, Vselovod 12, Ivan 2, Roman 2, Ilya 0, Voyeikov 0.
Quarters: 22-12, 45-36, 67-53, 85-67
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Jordan routs RP
Jordan routs RP
Games Today
1 p.m. – Kazakhstan vs. Iran
3 p.m. – Japan vs. Lebanon
5 p.m. – Taiwan-B vs. Korea
7 p.m. – RP vs. Taiwan-A
TAIPEI – The awakening to the truth about international competition couldn’t have been more rude, and the welcome to the 31st staging of the William Jones Cup any more cold for Powerade-Team Pilipinas.
Hoping to showcase to the rest of Asia what they are all about as they set a goal lofty enough to deserve an appearance in the 16th World Championship in Istanbul next year, the Nationals ran smack instead to the harsh realities of global basketball.
Reduced to a bush leaguer in the second quarter where big and bold Jordan racked up 20 straight points to break a tight game open, the RP team fell with a big thud Saturday, 90-59, at the Hsinchuang gymnasium, putting pressure on everybody involved in sending a national team to the 25th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Tianjin, China next month.
The game was shown live on ESPN, and the Nationals, who started James Yap, Asi Taulava, Gabe Norwood, Kerby Raymundo and Willie Miller, stayed in the game in the first 10 minutes, trailing 17-15, with the promise of a second quarter blast up in the air.
But then came off the bench Rasheim Wright, the 6-4 point guard who terrorized Chot Reyes’ RP team during the 24th FIBA Asia Olympic qualifier in Tokushima, Japan two years ago.
In a flash, the potential for a big first half went up in smoke as the Jordanians, orchestrated by Wright, cut the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting bone-jarring screens against the man-to-man and hitting the open man from the outside.
With alarming regularity, the Nationals were caught two or three steps away from a Jordanian in firing position or pinned hapless under the basket by huge post-up presence.
It was 37-15 with three minutes remaining in the half before Jared Dillinger went to the free throw to end the long drought, and it was more of the same the rest of the way.
Fast on their feet in covering the middle defensively, the Jordanians, coached by Brazilian sparkplug Mario Palma, who made RP coach Yeng Guiao look like an altar boy, had the Nationals starving from the perimeter and under the offensive glass.
They also had easy access in front of their goal, drawing the double-team and then locating their spot-up shooters.
There were a few bright notes for Team RP, like Kerby Raymundo scoring the Nationals’ first six points and newcomer Japeth Aguilar swatting away shots.
But it was a Jordanian show all the way, with the debacle at its height halfway in the fourth quarter at 79-45.
Ginebra’s Jayjay Helterbrand and Cyrus Baguio, and San Miguel Beer’s Mick Pennisi, with little rest following their Game 7 battle in the Motolite-PBA Fiesta Cup Finals, arrived Saturday afternoon with Powerade-RP team manager JB Baylon and PBA media bureau chief Willy Marcial but didn’t suit up.
They are expected to be inserted in the 12-man lineup, which is allowed by tournament rules, for Sunday’s 7 p.m. match against host Taiwan.
In other opening day games, Lebanon, with the veteran Fadih El-Khatib pouring 32 points, crushed Taiwan-B, 93-61, while South Korea, which is bracketed with the Philippines, Japan and Sri Lanka in Group A in the FIBA Asia tournament, edged Kazakhstan, 75-73, despite getting outrebounded, 42-32.
Games Today
1 p.m. – Kazakhstan vs. Iran
3 p.m. – Japan vs. Lebanon
5 p.m. – Taiwan-B vs. Korea
7 p.m. – RP vs. Taiwan-A
TAIPEI – The awakening to the truth about international competition couldn’t have been more rude, and the welcome to the 31st staging of the William Jones Cup any more cold for Powerade-Team Pilipinas.
Hoping to showcase to the rest of Asia what they are all about as they set a goal lofty enough to deserve an appearance in the 16th World Championship in Istanbul next year, the Nationals ran smack instead to the harsh realities of global basketball.
Reduced to a bush leaguer in the second quarter where big and bold Jordan racked up 20 straight points to break a tight game open, the RP team fell with a big thud Saturday, 90-59, at the Hsinchuang gymnasium, putting pressure on everybody involved in sending a national team to the 25th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Tianjin, China next month.
The game was shown live on ESPN, and the Nationals, who started James Yap, Asi Taulava, Gabe Norwood, Kerby Raymundo and Willie Miller, stayed in the game in the first 10 minutes, trailing 17-15, with the promise of a second quarter blast up in the air.
But then came off the bench Rasheim Wright, the 6-4 point guard who terrorized Chot Reyes’ RP team during the 24th FIBA Asia Olympic qualifier in Tokushima, Japan two years ago.
In a flash, the potential for a big first half went up in smoke as the Jordanians, orchestrated by Wright, cut the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting bone-jarring screens against the man-to-man and hitting the open man from the outside.
With alarming regularity, the Nationals were caught two or three steps away from a Jordanian in firing position or pinned hapless under the basket by huge post-up presence.
It was 37-15 with three minutes remaining in the half before Jared Dillinger went to the free throw to end the long drought, and it was more of the same the rest of the way.
Fast on their feet in covering the middle defensively, the Jordanians, coached by Brazilian sparkplug Mario Palma, who made RP coach Yeng Guiao look like an altar boy, had the Nationals starving from the perimeter and under the offensive glass.
They also had easy access in front of their goal, drawing the double-team and then locating their spot-up shooters.
There were a few bright notes for Team RP, like Kerby Raymundo scoring the Nationals’ first six points and newcomer Japeth Aguilar swatting away shots.
But it was a Jordanian show all the way, with the debacle at its height halfway in the fourth quarter at 79-45.
Ginebra’s Jayjay Helterbrand and Cyrus Baguio, and San Miguel Beer’s Mick Pennisi, with little rest following their Game 7 battle in the Motolite-PBA Fiesta Cup Finals, arrived Saturday afternoon with Powerade-RP team manager JB Baylon and PBA media bureau chief Willy Marcial but didn’t suit up.
They are expected to be inserted in the 12-man lineup, which is allowed by tournament rules, for Sunday’s 7 p.m. match against host Taiwan.
In other opening day games, Lebanon, with the veteran Fadih El-Khatib pouring 32 points, crushed Taiwan-B, 93-61, while South Korea, which is bracketed with the Philippines, Japan and Sri Lanka in Group A in the FIBA Asia tournament, edged Kazakhstan, 75-73, despite getting outrebounded, 42-32.
RP vs. Jordan
JULY 17, 2009
Games Today
1 p.m. – Lebanon vs. Taiwan-B
3 p.m. – Korea vs. Kazakhstan
5 p.m. – Jordan vs. PHILIPPINES
7 p.m. – Opening Ceremony
7:30 p.m. – Taiwan-A vs. Japan
Powerade-RP battles Jordan
Helterbrand: It doesn’t matter if it hurts, I’ll still play
TAIPEI – Powerade-Team Pilipinas opens its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup tournament Saturday against Jordan, the squad that smashed two years ago the country’s dreams of returning to the Olympic stage.
Game time is set at 5 p.m. at the Hsinchuang gymnasium following the opening matches pitting Lebanon against Taiwan-B at 1 p.m. and South Korea against Kazakhstan at 3.
A 30-minute inaugural ceremony is set at 7 p.m.
Led by point guard Rasheim Wright, who had 24 points, the Jordanian ended the Philippines’ bid to qualify to the 2008 Beijing Olympics following an 84-76 victory in the preliminary round of the 24th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Tokushima, Japan.
Though the Jones Cup, held in honor of the founding secretary-general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), is nothing more than a top-caliber tune-up tournament for the “real thing” – the FIBA Asia World Championship qualifier in Tianjin, China next month – the games will afford competing teams a chance to size up each other.
Facing Jordan in the opener is especially significant for the Nationals.
“We lost to them convincingly in Tokushima,” said Powerade-RP coach Yeng Guiao on arrival here Thursday. “Meeting Jordan at once will allow us to immediately find out if our preparations (for Tianjin) are on the right track.”
PBA commissioner Renauld ‘Sonny’ Barrios, head of the RP delegation, labeled the Jordan game “the real test against a strong opponent.”
Added Barrios: “This will give coach Yeng and our guys an opportunity to gauge how they are doing in their preparations for Tianjin.”
Backing Wright then are 6-foot-8 Islam Abbaas, who grabbed nine rebounds against the Philippines, and 6-foot-6 Enver Soobzokov and 6-foot-5 Sam Daghlas, both of whom had five assists.
Jordan had two 7-footers – Jamal Ma’aytah and Ayman Udais – and a 6-foot-10 center, Zaid Al-Khas.
Asi Taulava paced Team RP, which led 18-13 in the first quarter, with 14 points, while point guard Jayjay Helterbrand had five assists.
Helterbrand, who has been laboring under the strain of a pulled hamstring, gave indications he would suit up.
“If I’m there, I don’t wanna just watch,” said Helterbrand, who sat from the bench as his RP teammates swept the 8th SEABA Men’s Championship in Medan, Indonesia last April.
“I wanna really try help those guys out. If I’m capable, I wanna play. If it hurts or not, it doesn’t matter, I’ll still play.”
The RP team arrived Thursday afternoon from Manila minus Mick Pennisi of San Miguel Beer and Ginebra's Cyrus Baguio and Helterbrand, who will follow the day after Game 7 of the Motolite-PBA Fiesta Cup Finals Friday.
Games Today
1 p.m. – Lebanon vs. Taiwan-B
3 p.m. – Korea vs. Kazakhstan
5 p.m. – Jordan vs. PHILIPPINES
7 p.m. – Opening Ceremony
7:30 p.m. – Taiwan-A vs. Japan
Powerade-RP battles Jordan
Helterbrand: It doesn’t matter if it hurts, I’ll still play
TAIPEI – Powerade-Team Pilipinas opens its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup tournament Saturday against Jordan, the squad that smashed two years ago the country’s dreams of returning to the Olympic stage.
Game time is set at 5 p.m. at the Hsinchuang gymnasium following the opening matches pitting Lebanon against Taiwan-B at 1 p.m. and South Korea against Kazakhstan at 3.
A 30-minute inaugural ceremony is set at 7 p.m.
Led by point guard Rasheim Wright, who had 24 points, the Jordanian ended the Philippines’ bid to qualify to the 2008 Beijing Olympics following an 84-76 victory in the preliminary round of the 24th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in Tokushima, Japan.
Though the Jones Cup, held in honor of the founding secretary-general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), is nothing more than a top-caliber tune-up tournament for the “real thing” – the FIBA Asia World Championship qualifier in Tianjin, China next month – the games will afford competing teams a chance to size up each other.
Facing Jordan in the opener is especially significant for the Nationals.
“We lost to them convincingly in Tokushima,” said Powerade-RP coach Yeng Guiao on arrival here Thursday. “Meeting Jordan at once will allow us to immediately find out if our preparations (for Tianjin) are on the right track.”
PBA commissioner Renauld ‘Sonny’ Barrios, head of the RP delegation, labeled the Jordan game “the real test against a strong opponent.”
Added Barrios: “This will give coach Yeng and our guys an opportunity to gauge how they are doing in their preparations for Tianjin.”
Backing Wright then are 6-foot-8 Islam Abbaas, who grabbed nine rebounds against the Philippines, and 6-foot-6 Enver Soobzokov and 6-foot-5 Sam Daghlas, both of whom had five assists.
Jordan had two 7-footers – Jamal Ma’aytah and Ayman Udais – and a 6-foot-10 center, Zaid Al-Khas.
Asi Taulava paced Team RP, which led 18-13 in the first quarter, with 14 points, while point guard Jayjay Helterbrand had five assists.
Helterbrand, who has been laboring under the strain of a pulled hamstring, gave indications he would suit up.
“If I’m there, I don’t wanna just watch,” said Helterbrand, who sat from the bench as his RP teammates swept the 8th SEABA Men’s Championship in Medan, Indonesia last April.
“I wanna really try help those guys out. If I’m capable, I wanna play. If it hurts or not, it doesn’t matter, I’ll still play.”
The RP team arrived Thursday afternoon from Manila minus Mick Pennisi of San Miguel Beer and Ginebra's Cyrus Baguio and Helterbrand, who will follow the day after Game 7 of the Motolite-PBA Fiesta Cup Finals Friday.
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