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FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers: Baldwin claps back at South Korea coach's 'lucky shot' statement

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Dennis Gasgonia, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/life/06/18/20210618-baldwin-grabbed-from-fiba.jpg"/><figcaption>Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin attends a press conference after his team&#x27;s victory over Indonesia. <em>Grabbed from FIBA Basketball Channel&#x27;s Youtube page</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin found it convenient for the South Korean coach to blame his team&#x27;s defeat to a &quot;lucky shot.&quot;</p><p>Baldwin took exception on coach Cho Sang Hyun&#x27;s statement even as the South Koreans absorbed a painful 81-78 defeat following SJ Belangal&#x27;s game-winning trey last Wednesday.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;ve already read that the Korea coach said we&#x27;re very lucky to win the game. Frankly I think that&#x27;s pretty rich for any coach to walk off, lose in any game and claim that there&#x27;s good luck on the part of the opponent,&quot; said Baldwin Friday night after the nationals&#x27; blowout 76-51 win over Indonesia.</p><p>Gilas is set to meet South Korea again on Sunday in the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers at the AUF Gym in Pampanga.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/16/21/watch-belangels-game-winning-trey-in-gilas-stunning-win-over-south-korea">WATCH: Belangel&#x27;s game-winning trey in Gilas&#x27; stunning win over South Korea</a></li></ul><p>&quot;I&#x27;ll make sure that that will give our players an extra incentive. I don&#x27;t expect that we&#x27;ll go out there to make friends on Sunday,&quot; said Baldwin.</p><p>Meanwhile, Baldwin admitted Gilas struggled in the first half against the Prosper-led Indonesia. </p><p>Indonesia tired to slow down the tempo and limit Gilas&#x27; possessions to stay within 30-22.</p><p>Gilas broke the game wide open after adjustments.</p><p>&quot;We looked a little bit like I what I thought we might look like early in this campaign,&quot; said Baldwin.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/18/21/fiba-asia-cup-qualifiers-gilas-cruises-past-indonesia-en-route-to-blowout-win">FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers: Gilas cruises past Indonesia en route to blowout win</a></li></ul><p>&quot;We didn&#x27;t settle down, we tried to push the tempo. We&#x27;re not yet ready to be an up tempo team then flow to a half-court cohesion.&quot;</p><p>Baldwin said Gilas will need to stay disciplined in executing plays to be successful.</p><p>&quot;We lacked self-discipline in the culture that we really want to establish. Without that, we&#x27;d pretty be ordinary and we don&#x27;t want to be ordinary. We wanna be elite, we want to be an international basketball team that people will respect,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;I think we need to be able to be a team that can play with tempo and play with with discipline. It&#x27;s a great learning experience for us, we will improve because of that first half lack of performance.&quot;</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1708518" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin found it convenient for the South Korean coach to blame his team's defeat to a "lucky shot."<br /> </p>

Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin found it convenient for the South Korean coach to blame his team's defeat to a "lucky shot."

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FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers: Baldwin claps back at South Korea coach's 'lucky shot' statement

Dennis Gasgonia,

ABS-CBN News

Published Jun 18, 2021 10:43 PM PHT

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