{"id":24492,"date":"2014-09-02T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24492"},"modified":"2014-09-02T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:41:54","slug":"gilas-pilipinas-drops-another-close-game-to-third-ranked-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/02\/gilas-pilipinas-drops-another-close-game-to-third-ranked-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas drops another close game to third ranked Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24495\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jimmy-Alapag-Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jimmy-Alapag-Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas-e1409654507408.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Alapag (#4) gave an outstanding performance against Argentina, but sadly, it was not enough. (Photo courtesy of Smart Gilas Pilipinas Facebook page)\" width=\"616\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Alapag (#4) Photo courtesy of Smart Gilas Pilipinas Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0 \u2013 Gilas Pillipinas dropped yet another close game, this time bowing to world No. 3 Argentina, 81-85, late Monday night (Manila time) in the ongoing 2014 FIBA World Cup in Seville, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines moved within a hairline, 81-82, on Jimmy A with still 1:58 left in the game and had a chance to go for a huge upset after a split free throws from Argentina to make it 83-81.<\/p>\n<p>But Jason Castro succumbed to pressure from an Argentine defender and was called for traveling violation with only 12 seconds to go.<\/p>\n<p>Andres Nacioni scored the last two points to hand Argentina its second win in three games.<\/p>\n<p>The Gilas Pilipinas absorbed its third straight loss, hoping to win their two remaining assignments against Puerto Rico (0-2) and Senegal (2-1) to advance in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipinos lost their first two games against Croatia, 78-81, in overtime and Greece, 70-82.<\/p>\n<p>After a poor shooting performance against Greece, the Filipinos bounced back with Jimmy Alapag hitting 5 of 7 from the three-point area to finish with 15 points while Ranidel De Ocampo added four triples to score 18 markers.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines opened the game with 4-0 lead on Andre Blatche\u2019s two putbacks and stretched the lead to 17-7 behind Castro who exploded from the big arc.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina cut the lead to 25-22 after the first quarter as coach Chot Reyes benched Blatche due to two personal fouls. Blatche played with right knee injury he acquired against Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentines finally grabbed the lead at 38-36 and finished the first half with 43-38 margin.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina ballooned the gap at 68-53 but Alapag and De Ocampo led the nationals\u2019 fourth quarter rally to move closer at 69-71.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines returned to the quadrennial FIBA World Cup, formerly FIBA World Championships, for the first time in four decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0 \u2013 Gilas Pillipinas dropped yet another close game, this time bowing to world No. 3 Argentina, 81-85, late Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-sports","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492","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=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}