Coach Ronnie Magsanoc knew the odds that his team was facing before departing for competition.
“The destination is the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The biggest hump is in Graz. The road map is tough,” Magsanoc said then.
Those odds just got longer.
In fact, Gilas Pilipinas’ 3×3 squad no longer has its fate in its hands in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Graz, Austria. Back-to-back losses to open the tournament made sure of that.On Friday, the team will need to sweep its two remaining matches in Pool C of the qualifiers—one against Dominican Republic and another against France—and hope the results in other matches go their way, too.
On top of that, Joshua Munzon…
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