Gilas Pilipinas Basketball

With Gilas Pilipinas out of medal contention in the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup, Christian Standhardinger left Lebanon already and will join the Gilas Pilipinas SEA Games Team to Malaysia in time for their 1st game on August 20 vs Thailand.

Christian Standhardinger averaged 16 points and 5.7 rebounds in 3 games for Gilas in the FIBA Asia Cup.

Gilas Pilipinas will stay play in the Classification for 5th-8th place from August 19-20 in Beirut and will only have 11 players. Carl Bryan Cruz is also part of the Gilas Pilipinas SEA Games Team but currently still in Lebanon as Mac Belo is set to replace him pending approval from the SEA Games organizers. If replacement is disallowed, CBC might still play vs Lebanon in the FIBA Asia Cup and will fly out and join Gilas Pilipinas in Malaysia after but may miss 1-2 games in the SEA Games.

View Gilas Pilipinas Schedule for 2017 SEA Games

Photo above from fiba.com

Posted by Christian Standhardinger in his Instagram account

Hey guys, I would like to announce with a heavy heart that I will be leaving the FIBA Asia cup today to join our other Gilas team in Malaysia. Although I'm sad about my early departure, I'm looking forward to be part of the Malaysian team during the SEA games. I had so much fun with my team mates and I'm sorry that we won't be able to lift the trophy for you guys. We played our hardest but sometimes it's not meant to be. Now it's time for me to focus on my next adventure and play my best to win at the SEA games. I am sure the Gilas will take care of business for the last two games at FIBA Asia! #gilas #labanpilipinas #pinoypride #pinoyhoops #puso #pinoybasketball

A post shared by Christian Standhardinger (@c.standhardinger) on Aug 17, 2017 at 2:55am PDT