{"id":23553,"date":"2014-08-25T23:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2014-08-25T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:43:30","slug":"gilas-pilipinas-wins-tune-up-game-versus-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/25\/gilas-pilipinas-wins-tune-up-game-versus-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas wins tune-up game versus Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17042\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17042\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas.jpg\" alt=\"Smart Gilas Pilipinas. Photo courtesy of Nuki Sabio \/ FIBA Asia via Gilas Pilipinas Facebook page.\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas-600x306.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smart Gilas Pilipinas. Photo courtesy of Nuki Sabio \/ FIBA Asia via Gilas Pilipinas Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas beats a taller Egyptian team, 74-65, in a tune-up game in Spain on Sunday (early Monday in Manila), six days before the opening of the 2014 FIBA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>According to report of pba.ph, the Filipinos tore the Egyptians apart in the final half to the delight of about 2,000 Filipino fans.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Chan tossed in 20 points while Dray Blatche overcame an anemic first-half shooting and rifled in 14 in the last two quarters as Gilas Pilipinas checked a five-game slump in Antibes, France and in San Sebastian, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals made a good impression in Guadalajara, 60 kilometers northeast of Madrid, which is hosting several other teams gearing up for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the day\u2019s other game, Estonia whipped Senegal, 74-61.<\/p>\n<p>The previous day, Argentina clobbered Estonia, 89-72, while Dominican Republic massacred Senegal, 83-47.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Gilas Pilipinas will test the mettle of Dominican Republic \u2013 the Nationals\u2019 last warm-up game before beginning their World Cup campaign versus Croatia on Aug. 30 in Seville.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Pingris, June Mar Fajardo and Paul Lee put up significant help as Gilas Pilipinas topped Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The African WC qualifier sported a 5-3 win-loss card in tune-up matches before bowing to the Filipinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas beats a taller Egyptian team, 74-65, in a tune-up game in Spain on Sunday (early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","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=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}