Benjie Paras (PHI) 25 pts + 16 rebs [24 min], Fabha (PAK) 27 pts

Allan Caidic (PHI) 34 pts, Akifumi Yamasaki (JPN) 25 pts

Zhang Yongjun (CHN) 36 pts [8 3pt] + 5 rebs, Wang Fei (CHN) 24 pts, Ma Jian (CHN) 14 pts + 14 rebs, Gong Xiaobin (CHN) 13 pts + 7 rebs, Sun Fengwu (CHN) 12 pts + 6 rebs, Ramon Fernandez (PHI) 16 pts, Benjie Paras (PHI) 14pts + 7 rebs

Benjie Paras (PHI) 21 pts, Chito Loyzaga (PHI) 11 pts [3 3pt],Hamdan Al-Baddal (UAE) 26 pts

Samboy Lim (PHI) 18 pts, Kuniharu Yasuda (JPN) 24 pts

Wang Fei (CHN) 20 pts, Zhang Yongjun (CHN) 16 pts, Sun Fengwu (CHN) 15 pts, Samboy Lim (PHI) 25 pts, Allan Caidic (PHI) 11 pts

lim avelino scored 18 points to lead the all-professional philippine team to a 94-90 semifinal victory over japan in the asian games men’s basketball tournament here thursday. the philippines will face defending champion china in saturday’s final, for tournament champion title which they have longed for 28 years. the vetaren-paced philippine cagers surged back strongly with a 21-11 run led by allan caidic’s three three-pointers and burst ahead at 69-61 eight minutes into the seocnd half. supported by their roaring home fans, the filipinos carried the lead tightly with venancio paras’s inside tip-ins, lim avelino’s cut-in lay-ups and magsanoc’s sharp shots till 83-75 with five minutes to go. though the japanese launched out a full-court defence and three-point game to cut the difficit to only four points at 94-90 with 37 seconds to go, the more experienced filipino profassionals yielded the japanese with their 30-second play to seal the game in their favor and a berth for the final. “i think both the philippines and japan deserved to fight for the goal medal but we took a bit more chance in today’s games,” robert jaworski told a press conference after the thrilling fight. japan’s head coach shimizu yoshinori said at the conference that: “it’s a pitty for us to lose with such a small margin of four points, becasue our two best players, the 1.94-meter shimonura katsuya and the 1.98-meter tsujimura hiroshi, got injured and were not up to their best form now.” saturday’s final will be the second sino-filipino confrontation after china’s sound 125-60 triumph over the philippines in a quartefinal group a match last monday. when asked how his team plays the defending champion china in the final, jaworski said: “we have no choice but confidance.” china entered the final by holding down a south korea 92-88 in a tough contest earlier this afternooin. the japanese took their tight advantage to jump to an early 25-13 lead in the mid-way of the first half with accurate middle distance shots and follow-up baskts. but the filipinos fought back at 36-all with their tight defence and ronaldo magsanoc’s two three-point goals and two freethrows to put the filipinos ahead at 41-36 at the 16th minute. but the taller japanese put their team together and took over the lead at 42-41 and stayed ahead at 50-45 at the interval. the top scorer for the philippines was lim avelino with 18 points and yasuda kuniharu grabbed the most points for japan with 24.

defending champions chinese men’s cagers held down a strong rallying from an all-professional philippine team to retain their title in the asian games tonight. but coaches of both teams agreed that the asian basketball teams have a long way to go before they may have a say in the world basketball arena. the philippine pro cagers, formed only three weeks before the asian games, fully showed their glamour talent in preliminary matches before squeezing into the final. but the filipinos, lacking of height size and team depth, found it was too hard to topple the supremacy of the taller chinese. the chinese have an average height of 1.97 meters compared with the philippines’ 1.88 meters. the young chinese players, staring by their two 20-year-old and 2.02-meter centers ma jian and gong xiaobin, trounced the pro filipinos 125-60 in their preliminary match and then 90-76 in the final for gold medal. the philippines, however, at least broke the decade domination by the two basketball powers in asia china and south korea by grabbing the silver medal in the beijing asiad. south korea finished third. after the match tonight, head coaches of the chinese and the philippine teams immediately turned their eyes on the asian basketball prospects in the world. roberto jaworski, the architecher of the philippine team, thought physical size would be one of the most important factors for asian teams to catch up with world basketball powerhouse in america and europe. “i think we asia can come up to the standard of world basketball when we become more creative and not so mechanical. we must start to think about it and fulfil it from now,” said jaworski at the post-match press conference saturday. wang changyu, head coach of the chinese team, shared jaworski’s opinion, adding asian teams must have more competitions with strong teams in the world in order to learn from them so that the asian basketball teams may improve themselves in term of defence, physical condititons and tactics.

chinese cagers defeated all the opponents on their way to defend their title after trouncing the philippine team 90-76 to retain their top honor at the asian games here saturday. the all-pro filipinos claimed their remarkable silver title, their best clinch in the asian games since they won their 4th gold medal some 28-years ago. the philippines opened the score with joaquin loyzaga’s left side shot but china answered it seconds afterward in the first minute into the play. the two sides then went on neck-in-neck till china’s 2-meter ma jian pushed the chinese team up to lead 14-12 with a slam dunk from a fastbreak at the fourth minute. the taller chinese cagers tightened their defence and out-run their filipino foes with fastbreaks from 11 steals and burst ahead to 53-35 at the interval. the filipinos attempted to rally with their tough muscle defence which slowed down china’s speed and narrowed the dificit to 69-57 with nine minutes before the full time bell. but china’s 1.98-meter veteran center zheng bin showed up to out-rebound the filipinos and paced the chinese to a 88-68 lead with two-and-a-half minute left. everything appeared to be stalled in the waning time with china adding one more goal and the filipinos with eight-points. the chinese cagers stood apart and watched lim avelino dunking its team’s last basket with a sinlge hand to end the competition of the 15-day and 11-team asiad men’s beskatball tournament. wang fei was the top scorer for the gold medalists with 20 points while teammates zhang yongjun added 16 and sun fengwu 15. lim avelino hit a game high 25 points while caidic allan added the only other double figure scores for the philippines with 11. earlier in the evening south korea beat japan 99-74 (55-32) to cliched the bronze medal,edging japan the fourth place. chinese taipei, the united arab emrites, iran, dpr korea, saudi arabia, pakistan and hong kong took the fifth to the 11th places in that order.

the point differences didn’t really show the ability of the philippines team,” said wang changyou, head coach of the chinese men’s basketball team. the chinese cagers trounced their philippine counterparts 125 -60 in a lopsided second round match in the men’s basketball tournament of the 11th asian games here today. “the philippine team is a very good team and they suffered a great loss only because we prevented them from displaying their individual ability,” wang said. the philippine team, made up by all professional cagers, is strong in individual skills like man-to-man defence and quick attack. “we adopted the man-to-man defence throughout the game,” wang said, “that is obviously out of their expectation and cast a great shadow to their confidence.” wang was satisfied with his players: “they played a brilliant game tonight and i am very satisfied.” wang said the philippines played an emotional game. “if they had calmed down and had a strong desire to win, the points difference would not have been so great.” the coach and captain of the philippine team failed to show up at the press conference.

the all-professional philippine basketball team scored an easy victory over a dogged pakistani squad 129-81 in a group c match at the beijing asiad here on wednesday. with their skills, the filipinos trounced their opponents after leading the first half at 67-43. eight filipinos finished in double figures of scoring points, leading by parsa venancio with 25 points from 24 playing minutes. “the game against pakistan was pretty tough. first session in a tournmeent is always tough. but i hope we could put something better tommorro against japan,” said robert jawaorski, philippines head coach, after the match. the philippines will meet a taller rival japan on thursday in its second group b outing. talking about the filipinos teamwork tonight, jawaorski said: “we mdae many mistakes. we have many errs in fastbreaks. it comes through time since we don’t have much time to practice together.” the all-pro philippine team was formed only three weeks before the beijing asiad which started on september 22. when asked if the philippine pros could win the basketall gold, jawaorski said his team needed to win all games before fighting for the gold and he hoped to do it. “the philippine pros, as i think, are beatable,” qian chenghai, former head coach of the chinese team, told xinhua after he watched the match. “i think the main problem for the filipinos are their shortage in heights,” qian said. “the taller chinese or japanese players can easilly beat them in offence but will have some difficulties in defecne.” qian said the philippine pros concentrate more on attacks than defence, allowing the pakistani team to take 81 points. pakistan only scored 57 points againt japan in a group c match on tuesday. even in today’s match, the philippines trailed 18-21 in the 10th minute when the pakistan’s 1.95 meter center allah bakhah fought strongly under the rim. on thursday, the filipinos will face a taller challenger, the 2.13-meter center yamasaki akifumi of japna. earlier in the afternoon, the democratic people’s rebulic of korea rallied from 37-42 half time down to edge saudi arabia 84-82 in a group b match.

defending champions china was drawn in group a while an all pro-cagers Filipino team was pulled into group c at the drawing ceremony of basketball matches in the 11th Asian games held here on Friday. The 18 men’s teams were drawn into four groups of preliminary round matches while seven women’s teams took part in the drawing ceremony for their team orders in a single round robin group. Under the Asian basketball council’s rules, if the participating teams are under seven, the matches will be played in single round robin. The top-two finishers in each group of the men’s event will enter the quarterfinals and the four quarterfinals’ winners will meet in the semifinals. Winners of the semifinals will clash for the men’s title in the final on October 6 while the losers meet for the third and fourth places. The 1-2 finishers in women’s single round matches will play in the final for women’s crown and the 3-4 finishers will meet for the third and fourth place on the final ranking. Following are the drawing results for the basketball matches at the Beijing Asian games: women’s team orders 1. China 2. South Korea 3. Japan 4. India 5. DPR Korea 6. chinese taipei 7. thailand men’s groups group a china, hong kong, iran, iraq group b south korea, kuwait, india, saudi arabia, dpr korea group c philippines, japan, pakistan, syria group d jordan, malaysia, chinese taipei, united arab emirates, sri lanka.

RP 129-81 PAKISTAN (67-43 HT)
POINTS
RP: Paras 24, Caidic 24, Calma 15, Lim 14, Fernandez 13, Magsanoc 12, Patrimonio 11, Cuenco 11, Loyzaga 5, Dignadice 0, Realubit 0, Gonzalgo 0

PAK: FAbha 27, Amir 23, Awang 9, Habib 7, Hussein 6, Ahmed 2, Askaryar 2, Allah 1, Mirza 0, Insari 0, Chaundry 0, Shaikh 0

Notes: RP trailed 12-17 before a 20 point flurry behind Lim and Paras…Caidic shot 6-10 from 3 pt land…Paras had 16 reb…RP had 31 rebs…60% shooting for RP…Lim (who had orginally been listed as out with a shoulder injury suffered in practice ealier in the week) had his patented off balanced drives while Caidic was a sniper on the outside.

RP 86-78 JPN (29-43 HT)
POINTS
RP: Caidic 34, Lim 14, Patrimonio 8, Fernandez 7, Calma 7, Dignadice 6, Magsanoc 5, Realubit 3, Paras 2, Gonzalgo 0, Loyzaga 0, Cuenco 0

JPN: Yamasaki 25, Goto 11, Sato 9, Rikukawa 8, Toyama 8, Sasaki 6, Toujimura 5, Yasuda 4, Miura 2, Tanaka 0, Higashide 0, Shimamura 0

Notes: Biggest RP deficit was 17-33….Caidic scored 32 or his 34 in the 2nd half…RP came out of HT and went on 22-0 run to take lead 51-43…in that run, RP forced 3 turnovers while JPN missed 7 consecutive FG…last JPN lead was 72-71 off of drives converted by Matsumi Sasaki and Kiyomi Sato…Caidic then hit 6 consecutive FT off fouls from Akifumi Yamasaki, Toshihiro Goto and Sato to put RP up 77-76 with 2:21 remainig…Ramon Fernandez then came up with a steal and hit 2 FT…JPN #15 Yuji Miura fouled by Paras but missed both FT…Sasaki got the rebound and was fouled by Fernandez…Sasaki hit both FTs to cut lead to 78-79…Yves Dignadice came off bench, hit a clutch 18 footer and grabbed a defensive reb. off a Sato miss…Caidic clinched it with his 6th three pointer, his 12th in 2 prelim games…PHI advanced as winner of group (2-0)..JPN second (1-1)…PAK finished last in group (0-2, lost to JPN 57-107)

Other notes: Calma suffered spained ankle in practice before tournament (Jaworski said he would be used sparingly vs. PAK)…Lim injured shoulder in practice (originally was not going to play but did)

Key JPN big men: Yuji Miura (196 cm), Hiroshi Toujimura (198 cm, dont know spelling of last name), Akifumi Yamasaki (213 cm), Koichi Higashide (210 cm)

Korean sharpshooter Lee Chung-hee had injured his knee, had not been expected to play much, but ended up playing….

All of this I got from reading Manila Bulletin articles on the google archive..this is all I have so no need to ask for more info…hope this helps….I am still searching or any more info if anyone has it