29th Jones Cup Quick Recap: Philippines 72 - U.S. 67
July 2, 2007 by Benhur
The Philippines National Team scored a 72-67 victory over the U.S. team represented by Athletes In Action. The U.S. participant looked raw but still, the Philippines barely won.
They needed a fourth quarter explosion from Jimmy Alapag, Mark Caguioa and Mick Penissi.
It was my first look at the RP Team. A full game aired over at ESPN and slightly delayed over at ABC 5.
If not for Jimmy Alapag’s stellar play, we could have started the Jones Cup on a bad note. Alapag did not miss from the field and had a solitary miss from the line. First half, Jim (as the ESPN commentator call him) Alapag penetrated at will thereby getting fouls and trips to the free line.
In the 2nd half, he unleashed successive three point shots and exuded leadership, energy and confidence. He top scored for the RP team with 19 points. Mark Caguioa chipped in 14 points including a buzzer beater to finish the Americans. With Alapag’s play, more and more likely, Helterbrand could be cut if he’ll not improve his play.
First full look at Gabe Norwood too. The guy is tall. Gabe can handle the ball. He kinda played 1 and the 2. Has outside shot and is quick and long. He can be used by Chot Reyes when it’s RP time to go pressing. Let’s see more of Gabe, let’s see if he’ll get a ticket to Japan.
Quick Breakdown:
- The Philippine National Team defense is awful. If not for US-AIA more atrocious shooting, we could have been down. Give the Koreans (Korea won BTW, over Qatar) the shots that they gave to US players, and we’ll be blown out early.
- Out of the possessions the RP got, they successfully executed set plays, in my count, only 3 times. Including the triangle run by RP team that gave Mark Caguioa a twinner. RP should execute better than what they showed in this game.
- Asi Taulava needs to improve his FT shooting. One out of eight shooting? That’s a liability deep in this tournament. To add, we need another inside presence to back up Penissi and Taulava. In the end, my guess is, Eric Menk will replace De Ocampo. Mick Penissi is actually doing well. (The backslash is, Mick is pretty much “scouted” now. Who could miss a bald man with that facial hair who does nothing but fire threes on offense (successfully, btw) and mans the painted area on defense. Mick is marked man.)
- They got to do a better job breaking the press. A slow US team gave them trouble. Without any stat sheet, using my random access memory, Don Don Hontiveros turned the ball over 4 times. A quicker Asian team that has pressing as part of the game, we’ll be turning it over more.
- Finally, check the odd basket net being used in the Jones Cup gym. It’s a throwback short net. These could be the same two nets worn by Michael Hackett and Billy Ray Bates in 1986 when Ginebra won the championships.
Next up, the Lebanon team. Game time is 5:30pm tomorrow. Hoping that, ESPN will continue to have this on their Philippine programming.
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this is why caguioa is important to team phils. also pennisi for that matter. if their shooting is this good then ritualo can be replaceable.
i’m happy that pennisi is a marked man though. uichico didn’t use him to the fullest in the past asian games and it could have hurt the philippines’ chances to some extent.
Hats off, nice breakdown.
Question: Will ABC 5 telecast their game against lebanon tomorrow?
I believe coach chot is not playing all of his cards in this tournament; remember that ren ren was a our chief gunner in other tournaments, that we participated in. ren ren can easily break the zone once his on the court; I think chot will use him sparingly in jones cup so that they may not scout him, but expect heavy minutes in tokushima japan.
mark caguioa rily showed his worth yesterday…congratulations RP TEAM..I hope that erik menk will be used the next games…GO GO RP TEAM GALING TALAGA NI MARK IDOL
@venison - i believe so too. ren ren will not play heavy minutes for the rp team’s jones cup salvo. but he will definitely be japan bound.
Ritualo should not be included in JAPAN. How he can help the team sitting on the bench. ( too slow and too short for a shooter ). can we have TV skeds and TV SKEDS REPLAYS
now you mentioned this, i’m changing my mind on ritualo. although he really needs to work in his defense.
2-Jul-07 15:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Korea Vs Qatar Men’S(L)
2-Jul-07 17:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Usa Vs Philippines Men’S(L)
2-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Japan Men’S(L)
3-Jul-07 2:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Korea Vs Qatar Men’S(R)
3-Jul-07 13:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Usa Vs Philippines Men’S(R)
3-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Jordan Vs Korea Men’S(L)
3-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Lebanon Men’S(L)
3-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Iran Vs Chinese Taipei Men’S(L)
4-Jul-07 2:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Jordan Vs Korea Men’S(R)
4-Jul-07 13:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Lebanon Men’S(R)
4-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Japan Men’S(L)
4-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Usa Vs Korea Men’S(L)
4-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Jordan Men’S(L)
5-Jul-07 13:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Japan Men’S(R)
5-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Jordan Vs Usa Men’S(L)
5-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Korea Vs Philippines Men’S(L)
5-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Lebanon Vs Chinese Taipei Men’S(L)
6-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Jordan Men’S(L)
6-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Iran Vs Korea Men’S(L)
6-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Kazakhstan Men’S(L)
7-Jul-07 10:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Jordan Men’S(R)
7-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Iran Men’S(L)
7-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Japan Vs Korea Men’S(L)
7-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Qatar Vs Chinese Taipei Men’S(L)
8-Jul-07 13:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Korea Vs Lebanon Men’S(L)
8-Jul-07 15:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Iran Vs Kazakhstan Men’S(L)
8-Jul-07 17:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Philippines Men’S(L)
9-Jul-07 1:00 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Korea Vs Lebanon Men’S(R)
9-Jul-07 13:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Philippines Men’S(R)
9-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Qatar Vs Philippines Men’S(L)
9-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Kazakhstan Vs Korea Men’S(L)
9-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Usa Vs Chinese Taipei Men’S(L)
10-Jul-07 13:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Kazakhstan Vs Korea Men’S(R)
10-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Philippines Vs Kazakhstan Men’S(L)
10-Jul-07 17:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Iran Vs Usa Men’S(L)
10-Jul-07 19:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Korea Men’S(L)
11-Jul-07 15:30 WILLIAM JONES CUP INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL CHINESE TAIPEI; CHINESE TAIPEI Chinese Taipei Vs Korea Men’S(R)
July 2 - 5:00 pm against USA
July 3 - 7:00 pm against Lebanon
July 4 - 10:00 pm against Japan
July 5 - 7:00 pm against Korea
July 6 - 5:00 pm against Jordan
July 7 - 4:30 pm against Iran
July 8 - 10:00 pm against Chinese-Taipei
July 9 - 4:30 pm against Qatar
July 10 - 4:30 pm against Kazakhstan
Tied at 62, phillippines for the win with 15 seconds to go. they attacked waaay too early (dondon missed a 2 point fg) and gave lebanon a chance.
just a tune up game but still tough to swallow.