Gilas Pilipinas Basketball

Gilas Pilipinas Coach Chot Reyes announced the 14 Gilas players that will fly to Australia tonight, February 19 for the match-up against Australia in Melbourne on February 22 for the 2019 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.

Gilas Pilipinas Player Pool vs Australia
-Jason Castro
-Kiefer Ravena
-Kevin Alas
-Jio Jalalon
-Roger Pogoy
-Matthew Wright
-Allein Maliksi
-Gabe Norwood
-Calvin Abueva
-Carl Bryan Cruz
-Japeth Aguilar
-Abu Tratter
-June Mar Fajardo
-Andray Blatche

The Gilas Final 12 will be announced before the game against Australia. After being dropped recently, Calvin Abueva is back for consideration in the Gilas Final 12. The only surprise player in the Gilas 14 is Abu Tratter who has been a consistent practice player for Gilas.

Troy Rosario was dropped because he was not yet cleared to play after suffering a hard fall while playing for TNT while Mac Belo is still not 100% and is recovering from an injury.

Finally got go-signal to announce GILAS entourage leaving tom: Jason, Kief, Kev, Jio, RR, Matt, Allein, Gabe, Cal, CBC, Jap, Abu, JMF, Dray. Troy not given medical clearance yet, while Mac still not 100% #💪🇵🇭❤️

— Chot Reyes (@coachot) February 18, 2018

Good luck Gilas Pilipinas!