{"id":61032,"date":"2015-09-08T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61032"},"modified":"2015-09-08T23:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:28:29","slug":"gilas-pilipinas-plans-beating-iran-in-fiba-asia-eyes-olympic-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/08\/gilas-pilipinas-plans-beating-iran-in-fiba-asia-eyes-olympic-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas Pilipinas plans beating Iran in FIBA Asia, eyes Olympic slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gilas2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22825\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gilas2013.png\" alt=\"Gilas2013\" width=\"250\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tab Baldwin has been thinking of ways to beat Iran in the FIBA Asia Championships, with the goal to snatch the lone slot for the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>With a 75-64 defeat from Iran at the previously concluded William Jones Cup, the national team would have to revisit the game and use it as a \u2018benchmark \u2018 while competing for the MVP Cup and preparing for FIBA Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat game will feature a lot in our week of preparations\u2026 Their defense is so tough. We had trouble scoring with what we were running and how we were running it,\u201d Baldwin said in a Spin.ph report.<\/p>\n<p>The national coach admitted that his players had difficulty going past Iran\u2019s 7-2 Hamed Haddadi, guard Mahdi Kamrani and top gunner Samad Bahrani, who made a strong defense.<\/p>\n<p>Gilas now has to strengthen its offensive sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were lessons in that game and we will use that game as a kind of a benchmark and will use some of the tactics that we need to use against Iran during the week of preparations,\u201d Baldwin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tab Baldwin has been thinking of ways to beat Iran in the FIBA Asia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":22825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61032","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}