{"id":62342,"date":"2015-10-03T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62342"},"modified":"2015-10-03T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:53:57","slug":"gilas-makes-fiba-asia-finals-faces-mighty-china-for-rio-olympics-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/03\/gilas-makes-fiba-asia-finals-faces-mighty-china-for-rio-olympics-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilas makes FIBA Asia finals; faces mighty China for Rio Olympics slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62343\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gilas-pilipinas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62343\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gilas-pilipinas.jpg\" alt=\"Gilas Pilipinas Basketball Team (Facebook)\" width=\"900\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gilas-pilipinas.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gilas-pilipinas-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilas Pilipinas Basketball Team (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smartgilasph\/photos\/pb.134406089942455.-2207520000.1443844117.\/901331823249874\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas leaned on veteran Dondon Hontiveros to score a hard-earned 81-70 victory against Japan late Friday night to enter the finals of the 2015 FIBA Asia championship in Changsha, China.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed as Cebuano Hotshot, Hontiveros had his best game in the tournament after finishing with 18 points marked with glittering 6-of-9 shooting from big arc.<\/p>\n<p>Andray Blatche sizzled anew with double-double performance after finishing 22 points and 13 rebounds while Jayson Castro remains consistent with 20 points and seven boards.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second win of the Philippines against Japan which the Gilas defeated in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Filipinos inched one win away from clinching an elusive Rio Olympics slot.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines, however, have to hurdle host team China which remains undefeated after ousting defending champion Iran, 70-57, in other semifinals game.<\/p>\n<p>The Rio Olympics-or-die championship game is set at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Gilas Pilipinas leaned on veteran Dondon Hontiveros to score a hard-earned 81-70 victory against Japan late Friday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":62343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62342","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\/62342","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=62342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}