Barangay Ginebra coach Tim Cone, additionally the coach of Gilas Pilipinas, throughout a PBA Philippine CUp recreation. –PBA IMAGES
MANILA, Philippines—Gilas Pilipinas coach Tim Cone isn’t frightened about the place the Philippines’ group for the 2027 Fiba World Cup Asian Qualifiers.
In actual fact, he’s not giving it a lot thought in any respect.
“All people’s making a giant deal out of the draw however I simply don’t make a giant deal about it,” mentioned Cone, contemporary off of steering Ginebra to a win over Phoenix within the PBA Philippine Cup at Philsports Area on Friday.
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“I imply, we had no management over it. If we had misplaced or received a recreation right here or there which affected the draw then perhaps we’d be speaking about it or have some regrets however the backside line is, we don’t have any management over that.”
On Tuesday evening, Gilas was drawn into Group A alongside Guam and two acquainted groups in New Zealand, and world No. 7 Australia
Cone mentioned he isn’t frightened about successful or dropping in opposition to particular nations within the group stage–it’s all about punching a ticket to the World Cup.
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“We’ll do what we’ve to do to make it. The underside line is, we’ve to complete within the Prime 7,” Cone mentioned.
“That’s the job. It’s not essentially about beating Australia, New Zealand or Guam, it’s about getting in and qualifying. Nonetheless manner it takes us to try this, we’ll combat actually exhausting to try this.”
Earlier than Cone and Gilas may even fear in regards to the World Cup Qualifiers that begin in November, they first should deal with enterprise this August once they start their marketing campaign for the Asia Cup in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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