{"id":26703,"date":"2014-09-24T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26703"},"modified":"2014-09-24T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T09:54:25","slug":"gilas-defeats-india-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/24\/gilas-defeats-india-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas defeats India in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jimmy-Alapag-Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas-e1409654507408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24495\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jimmy-Alapag-Smart-Gilas-Pilipinas-e1409654507408-300x216.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=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Alapag (#4) gave an outstanding performance against Argentina, but sadly, it was not enough. (Photo courtesy of Smart Gilas Pilipinas Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas started their rally for the gold in a positive note as it defeated India, 85-76, <span data-term=\"goog_1104741833\">Tuesday<\/span> afternoon at Hwaseong Sports Complex in Incheon, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The victory assured the team of a slot in the quarterfinals of the tourney. Next up will be their match-off with Asian champion Iran <span data-term=\"goog_1104741834\">on Thursday<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important for us to go out and get a good start [to the tournament],\u201d said skipper Jimmy Alapag. \u201cWe just want to keep our focus every game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine national team opened the game with 16 straight points. Gabe Norwood connected with Japeth Aguilar for an alley-oop slam to give the team a 49-33 lead in the second canto. To which India answered with an 11-3 run.<\/p>\n<p>What slowed down the nationals was the 20 turnovers that they committed that allowed India to score 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>But Gilas, with the help of Marcus Douthit, answered with eight points to give them 60-44 lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough to get the news [about replacing Andray Blatche] at the last minute but I\u2019m mentally prepared for it,\u201d said Douthit.<\/p>\n<p>June Mar Fajardo also proved his worth as he scored 12 points in the first half with 9 rebounds. Jeff Chan chipped in with 14 markers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas started their rally for the gold in a positive note as it defeated India, 85-76, Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7437],"class_list":["post-26703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gilas","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26703","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=26703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26703\/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=26703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}