{"id":178900,"date":"2018-08-28T03:58:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=178900"},"modified":"2018-08-28T04:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:02:53","slug":"gilas-bows-sokor-asiad-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/28\/gilas-bows-sokor-asiad-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas bows to SoKor in Asiad basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178901\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jordan-clarkson-of-phil-blue-jersey-vs-korea04psc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178901\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jordan-clarkson-of-phil-blue-jersey-vs-korea04psc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jordan-clarkson-of-phil-blue-jersey-vs-korea04psc.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jordan-clarkson-of-phil-blue-jersey-vs-korea04psc-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Gilas Pilipinas player Jordan Clarkson tries to escape a pesky defense by South Korea during their match at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday (August 27, 2018). The Philippine basketball team lost to Korea, 91-82. (PSC pool photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Korean road block once again hit Gilas Pilipinas.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea clinched the first spot in the Asian Games men&#8217;s basketball tournament with a 91-82 comeback victory over Gilas at the GBK Basketball Hall in Jakarta on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A hot fourth quarter was all South Korea needed to eliminate Gilas from the medal hunt.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea went off to a hot start, taking a 14-5 lead midway in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>But Gilas recovered and even led by as much as eight in the third as Ricardo Ratliffe was saddled with foul trouble and the Korean locals&#8217; outside shooting not clicking.<\/p>\n<p>However, resiliency in the rebounding game helped a lot for South Korea as the team found second wind on its second chance shots, even as Gilas began piling turnovers in rest of the second half, leading to a 27-17 fourth quarter that sealed the deal for South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Ratliffe made 30 points, 14 rebounds, four assists, one block, and one steal for South Korea. Kim Sun-Hyung and Heo Il-Young each added 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>After a dismal first half, Jordan Clarkson fired 19 third quarter points en route to a 25-point performance for Gilas, which was relegated to the lower bracket, where the team can finish as high as fifth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Korean road block once again hit Gilas Pilipinas. South Korea clinched the first spot in the Asian Games &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":178901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}