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Gilas Pilipinas (originally known as Smart Gilas from 2010 to 2012) is the team consisting mostly of PBA players that serves as the Philippines men's national basketball team for elite level international tournaments since 2010. The team is under the aegis of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) and sponsored by Smart Communications. ''Gilas'' is the Tagalog word that loosely translates as "prowess". The all-amateur men's team is known as the Gilas Cadets (previously known from 2011 to 2014 as Sinag Pilipinas - ''sinag'' is the Tagalog word for "ray" (sunlight)), while the women's team is named Perlas Pilipinas (''perlas'' is the Tagalog word for "pearl"). The Gilas Pilipinas program succeeded the Team Pilipinas program (2005-2009) which was an initiative of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and sponsored by San Miguel Corporation (2005-2007, known as San Miguel-Team Pilipinas) and Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (2009, known as Powerade-Team Pilipinas). ==Gilas 1.0 (Toroman era, 2009–2012)== Following the Northern Cement model of the 1980s, the SBP created the Smart Gilas Pilipinas program which aimed to qualify the Philippine men's basketball team in the 2012 Olympics. The Smart Gilas Pilipinas program first trained in the European style of play under coach Rajko Toroman. Smart Gilas began with a group of rising young players, led by collegiate standouts Chris Tiu, JVee Casio and Greg Slaughter, who held off on joining the PBA draft until their three-year commitments to the program ran its course.〔http://www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/despite-pba-help-smart-gilas-still-committed-to-building-up-younger-players〕 During the 2009 preparation, the team played exhibition games against PBA teams.〔 〕 where game results were invariably close. After sampling local competition, the team flew to the United States and held a training camp in Las Vegas, Nevada. The young team also played scrimmage games and managed to pull off surprise wins against the more favored American Basketball Association’s Las Vegas Aces. Smart Gilas finished third in the 21st Dubai International Basketball Tournament behind Al-Riyadi Beirut of Lebanon (runner-up), and Mahram Tehran BC of Iran (champion). The tournament was held in Dubai, UAE on January 14–23, 2010. Smart Gilas co-captain JVee Casio was named best guard of the tournament after impressing the organizers with his consistency. Stunning the World Championship-bound Jordan national basketball team, Smart Gilas emerged as the inaugural champions in the 2010 Smart Philippine Invitational Challenge (also known as the MVP Cup) at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium from June 24–27, 2010. Smart Gilas finished fourth overall in the 32nd edition of the 2010 William Jones Cup, with a 3–3 win-loss card. The tournament took place in Taipei, Chinese Taipei from 14 to 20 July 2010. Smart Gilas finished fourth overall in the FIBA Asia Stanković Cup 2010, which made them qualified for the 26th FIBA Asia Championship in 2011, which in turn will be the qualifying event for 2012 London Olympics. The 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup 2010 was held in Beirut, Lebanon from 7 to 15 August 2010, in Ghazir Club Court, participated by 10 Asian national teams. Smart Gilas lost to the KBL's (Korean Basketball League) import-reinforced Seoul Samsung Thunders by a point, 83–82, in the 4th ABA (Asian Basketball Association) Club Championship 2010 in Haining City, China from September 14–19, 2010. In the 2010 Asian Games, Smart Gilas met the Korean team anew in the quarterfinals and was eliminated. In 2011, the SBP successfully petitioned the naturalization of Marcus Douthit. In the 2011 championship held in Wuhan, China, the team progressed up to the semifinals for the first time since 1987. In the bronze medal game against Korea, with a berth to an Olympic qualifying tournament at stake, the team raced to an early lead, but the Koreans cut the lead and eventually won the game after the Filipinos missed free-throws at the end game. Despite missing an Olympic berth, this was the best finish of the Philippines in the tournament since 1987 and its best finish in any major Asian competition since 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smart Gilas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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