Lassiter’s wish is PH gold celebration
VICTORY RIDE Gilas Pilipinas head coach Chot Reyes will get a victory experience because the Philippines defeats host Cambodia to win the lads’s basketball gold on the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. —REUTERS
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Marcio Lassiter had one large want on his thirty sixth birthday and it was to convey dwelling a gold medal from the thirty second Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games.
The 6-foot-2 swingman recognized for his silky contact from afar bought his prayers heard immediately on the identical day when Gilas Pilipinas reclaimed the SEA Video games crown it held for many years.
“It’s a terrific birthday want and it’s all for the nation,’’ stated Lassiter, a precious piece within the Gilas rotation who aided the “Redeem Group” in blotting out the bitter silver end within the Hanoi, Vietnam, model of the Video games final yr.
Gilas returned because the king of the area in males’s basketball with an 80-69 shellacking of host Cambodia, a souped-up squad of a number of American imports, throughout the gold-medal finale on Tuesday night on the Elephant Corridor of the Morodok Techo Nationwide Stadium right here.
Greater than incomes retribution after a surprising loss towards the Cambodians within the preliminary spherical, Gilas felt relieved of gifting a nation hungry for redemption.
The San Miguel Beermen marksman, a frequent game-saver able to constantly stamping the fight-backs of their rivals all through the match, acknowledged that the trek again to the highest could be strewn with far better obstacles.
“I do know it’s not going to be straightforward. There’s a lot problem as a result of the opposite workforce has like 5 to 6 imports. I simply love the fellows that we have now. We performed collectively, all for one,’’ stated Lassiter.
A workforce mashed collectively on the fly, Gilas needed to conquer not just a few challenges, together with a really fast coaching camp, logistical troubles and an harm, amongst others.
“These days of practising bought us impressed. We made errors, nevertheless it was additionally encouraging since these errors helped us develop,’’ stated Lassiter, a part of the core of the primary Gilas squad shaped by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas almost 15 years in the past.
“That loss to Cambodia was a studying expertise for us. We realized from our errors and got here out large as we speak,’’ added the nine-time Philippine Basketball Affiliation champion on his second title with Gilas within the SEA Video games after successful all of it throughout the 2019 version in Manila.
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