Gilas Pilipinas may seem to have an easy 89-61 win over Bahrain to kick off its 19th Asian Games gold medal bid in a strong note on Tuesday in Hangzhou, China.
But interim national coach Tim Cone knows the five newcomers in the team hold the key to how deep the Philippines will go in the quadrennial games.CJ Perez, Arvin Tolentino, Chris Ross and Kevin Alas were finally given the green light to play after taking the spots of Calvin Abueva, Terrence Romeo, Moala Tautuaa and Jason Perkins.
They don't have the foundation that the other eight guys had, seven actually because Marcio also came late,' explained the 65-year-old Cone.'That was important for us to get the extra time, because the seven guys who are really locked in to what we do, I think they have a really good feel, but the other five guys are feeling their way around,' he added.'Those are the guys that will decide how far we go because we need depth in this kind of tournament.
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