Interim coach Tim Cone said Gilas Pilipinas isn’t focused on the Asian Games gold medal as of yet.
Their immediate goal a week before the games open on Sept. 23 is to improve every day.
“We’re just focused on practicing every day. And then tomorrow we’ll practice again. And then the day after tomorrow we’ll practice again. That’s really our focus,” said Cone after the joint training session with the Gilas women’s squad at Philsports Arena on Thursday.
“I kept saying our goal is to win a gold medal, but our focus is not worried about that medal right now. Our focus is what we do today, or what we do tomorrow, or what we do the next day. We really want to win the gold, but that’s not our focus at this point.”
Gilas Pilipinas has a tight schedule preparing for the Asiad, which will take place in Hangzhou.
They will spend the next five days at the Inspire Sports Academy in Laguna for extensive, closed-door practices to work on the team’s cohesion.
Then on Sept. 22, they will battle the Changwon LG Sakers in a tuneup at Philsports Arena before flying to China the next day.
“We still got a week, and guys are getting better every day. We don’t need to be good today, but we need to be good when we play our first game (against Bahrain on Sept. 26),” said Cone.
“That’s our goal; try to be good the next time. Hopefully, we’ll play until we have a chance to win gold. We’ll see, we’ll see.”
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