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GILAS fans *rolls eyes*

"Isn't it interesting that the players who played in that game actually hold far less of a grudge than people on here do."

I'd expect those Boomers players to maintain a professional composure so as to not get too emotional about that incident. But if ever there was a reason to hold a grudge against a team, surely this is it. It was absolutely atrocious. It was gang violence appearing on a basketball court that could've resulted in the death of a player. What's worse is that the Gilas players didn't seem to understand how appalling and dangerous it was.

Yes 1 brawl in 60 odd years of basketball isn't a lot, but plenty of countries have had 0 in the same (or longer) time.

Real personality comes out in adversity. Throwing chairs at professional sportsmen is their real personality. Yes plenty of us are salty and are holding grudges but it's fair considering what their true colours have shown.

And yes I agree, their comments on FIBA pages are hilarious. A large majority of Filo's are also Kobe fanboys which is all you really need to know re their basketball IQ and understanding of team play

Look at where Philippines is ranked on the world rankings:

http://www.fiba.basketball/rankingmen#tab=fiba

As a comparison, they ranked New Zealand at 38.

Philippines -127pts. Oh my.

OMG make it stop.... I happened to switch on Tunisia vs Philippines. The "mighty" Gilas are getting murdered again. Someone find them some chairs.

Hopefully Pinoy TV edit the footage in time so their fans see a version of them "kicking ass" ....

Basketball is more a national obsession in Phillipines than a national sport- the commentator said this and he is spot on. I have visited that country many times and they really love their basketball, you see kids and adults wearing NBA jerseys everywhere.

So in 60 years of playing internationally they have 1 brawl. Granted their national team is small and struggles against the world powers, but that is to be expected given they have not competed in the World Cup for many years. I hope they can learn from this experience.

But why all the hatred from those on here? Filipinos are some of the nicest people I have ever met.

FOSHAN, China—Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic was critical of the foul that Paul Lee committed on Marko Guduric in the fourth quarter of their FIBA World Cup game on Monday night, believing that there was "intent to hurt."

Gilas was already well behind Serbia, 101-51, when Lee bumped Guduric as the latter was bringing down the ball with 7:36 to go. After a review, the hit was upgraded to an unsportsmanlike foul, giving Guduric two free throws and bonus possession to Serbia.

The Filipinos would absorb a 126-67 defeat, relegating them to the classification phase of the World Cup.

"I was not (happy)," Djordjevic said when asked about the hard foul. "I don't like dirty players. I don't like when you have intention, it seemed to me like (there was an) intention to hurt a player."

"I don't want my players to be hurt, the second or the third game. That's why I was so, so worried. You have to stop that," he added.

The Serbian coach said that he wants his team's opponents to "play physically, but tough and fair play."

Meanwhile, from r/NBA:

Serbia just put up 75/55/82 splits as a team against the Philippines

Still seeing plenty of excuses online.

I do love the the small portion of fans though that have had this sudden realisation they're absolutely trash lol.

What are their excuses after losing by 59 points? *chuckle*

It's not about them supporting their team or voicing their support though. It's about the incessant mockery of teams far superior to theirs, and for how their basketball federation behaved after the "Melee in Manilla". They released a documentary to excuse their gangland behaviors for crying out loud. "Yeah, we tried to punctured Chris Goulding's lung with a chair, but did you see him nudge me on that cut?!?"

I have nothing against filos as human beings outside of basketball, but their national team can go fuck itself. They should have been banned from international play for a decade for the way they behaved and seeing as they haven't been, I want them to suffer every game for that long and wish they were.

"They have managed to do one thing the Australian mens team haven't, win a medal at the World Championships.

Sure, it was sixty years ago, but from that period of success grew a proud history."

Yeah, Chile won bronze medals both sides of that medal and they haven't qualified to anything since.

Thank you Zodiac, there are some dumb people around here that no nothing about the world. Generally Philippines people are very good and kind hearted.
Let’s all move on, to much dwelling on a stupid incident.

They have managed to do one thing the Australian mens team haven't, win a medal at the World Championships.

Sure, it was sixty years ago, but from that period of success grew a proud history.

I don't really get the obsession with their team either. Yes, they should've been banned from the WC but they're weren't and they're shit. Why bother gloating over them losing to Italy they lost to the 36ers last week, they're trash.

If you know anything about the Philippines it's a very poor country beyond the comprehension of most Aussies I suspect. It's crime ridden they have armed guards in McDonald's for example they don't have much in life to look forward to but love basketball and clearly live through their national team.

They've never been any good at basketball they're always just making up the numbers just ignore them if they carry on too much there's no need to bathe in another person's misery.

Gilas basketball fans are seriously the biggest nuffies in all of sports imo. I get so triggered seeing their nonsense comments clog up my social media feed on basketball posts.

The whole "passion" thing is false imo, i think they're just straight up delusional.

The Gilas are the joke of the Basketball world

"How can a Italy miss out on a place in the last 2 world cups and a team like the Philippines can get in??? There is something dramatically wrong with the qualification process."

Remember how we could qualify to the World Cup by playing against New Zealand a couple times, obviously a flawed system (although judging by the most recent qualifying where both teams topped their qualifying groups, they were more worthy of qualifying than the 2nd team from Asia if not the 1st)

Serious question: could the Gilas be the worst team in this world cup? They qualified last through Asia.

Should be easy to taunt them with the start to this game.

Some context might help us understand what this thread is all about.

We already know.