Team Philippines Settle For 1-1 Record In Day 1 Of 2017 FIBA 3X3 World Cup

Team Philippines settles for a 1-1 record in Day 1 of the 2017 FIBA 3×3 World Cup in Nantes, France early Monday morning.

The four-man team is composed of Kobe Paras, Kiefer Ravena, Jeron Teng and JR Quiñahan, faced Romania and France.

Led by Kobe Paras, the youngest player at the competition at 19 years old, who scored 12 points, the Philippine team pulled off a massive upset against the seventh-best ranking in FIBA 3×3 competition Romania 21-15.

Cezar Baragau, on the other hand, spearheaded Romania’s offense with five points.

Paras was impressive and showed his scoring prowess throughout the whole game, but Ravena also came up big in the endgame.

The score was tied at 13 a piece before Ravena drive plus an and-one situation made it 15-13 with a little over a minute left and he was not finish yet, as he followed it up with a huge long bomb to push the score 17-13.

Then Paras applied the finishing kick with a shot from downtown and two free throws.

Unfortunately, the celebration for the Filipino squad was short lived as they fall to hosts France in their second game, 22-11.

France was just too much for the team Philippines to handle as they control the tempo of the game from start to finish.

Charles Bronchard was a force to reckon with and gave France’s local supporters something to cheer on as he placed a single-handed throw down over the Philippines.

Next game for Team Philippines is on June 20, 2017, 7:40pm vs Slovenia (June 21, 1:40 a.m. Manila Time) followed immediately by match against El Salvador (June 21, 3:00 a.m. Manila Time).

Source: FIBA