As he lounges on a folding chair at the sideline of the PhilSports Arena just before Gilas Pilipinas’ first team practice last Tuesday, Aug. 22, already having wrapped up their Basketball World Cup 2023 preparatory friendlies against Ivory Coast, Montenegro and Mexico, Reyes was asked if a ‘perfect game’ like the one eight-seed Villanova pulled off on April 1, 1985 would be needed to beat Dominican Republic.
Thirty-eight years ago in the US NCAA Final, Villanova coach Rollie Massimino crafted an overall strategy which the Wildcats executed to perfection in stunning Patrick Ewing and the Georgetown Hoyas 66-64 in what had since been known as the ‘Perfect Game.’The Wildcats hit 22-of-28 from the field for a shooting percentage of 78.6, went 22-of-27 from the free throw line, including 9-of-10 in the second half, and designed a defensive dragnet that held Ewing without a freebie the entire game.
“Something like that,” Reyes replied, nodding with a grin and adding something that he emphatically said cannot see print. Towns, whom Reyes described as a “legitimate NBA All-Star and first-team player,” will be the Filipinos’ biggest problem, a predicament that had Reyes looking back to a defensive-minded forward who played for him before.
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