The Philippines had already shown it was a formidable team by qualifying for the Basketball World Cup through its previous games.
On top of that, it was currently the NBA offseason, and their NBA player, Clarkson, had returned.
Although Jordan Clarkson was getting on in years,
international games lasted only 40 minutes, and with his playing time limited to around 28 minutes, he was still more than capable of handling the job.
So now that Jordan Clarkson was back, the Philippines' strength would naturally rise to another level.
The head coach of the Philippines men's basketball team was Reyes, a silver-haired man.
This old man had once done something that had left China's fans feeling insulted.
Reyes had once failed to lead the Philippines Team to a qualifying spot in the Asian Games' 17th-to-32nd-place qualifying tournament.
At the postgame press conference, he resigned, saying that he had done a terrible job and that his team had played poorly.
There would have been nothing wrong with that.
The problem was that, in that game, his team had beaten China's men's basketball team by 21 points.
After beating China's men's basketball team by 21 points, he resigned and said that he had performed terribly and that his team had played poorly.
What were China's fans supposed to think?
It felt as though he was openly mocking China Team.
And because of this incident, Reyes held a very high standing in the hearts of Philippine fans.
After all, he was the first coach in the Philippines who dared to publicly mock China Team like that.
At 4:00 p.m. that day, the Philippines held its pregame press conference.
At the press conference, Reyes once again made outrageous claims.
When a reporter asked him, "You once resigned after leading your team to a 21-point win