You lost your bet mate, Vietnam won. Years ago, Vietnam is really behind in the basketball competition in SEA games but this year they improved a lot. I think almost half in their roster is half Vietnamese, half American. This shows that they are serious in improving their basketball program in their country. Maybe ten years from now, the game between Philippines vs Vietnam will not be lopsided anymore.
Yes I lost the bet and my office mate is so happy not because of the Starbucks, but her country won. She watched it live, she even asked me to to allow her to go under time (leave early from work) so she has enough time to travel and watch.
Heres's the Starbucks treat I gave to my office mate for losing the bet
So impressive, isn't it?
. Even their naturalized player can't do anything by himself alone to stop the momentum of Philippines. Everyone from the Gilas contributed on their winning victory most especially to inside offense of Abay and Stand, and Pringle's speedy moves. Anyway, I already expected their win since it was only in SEA region but everthing looks unpleasant once they go to FIBA World lol but at least they try and that's a thing which you can be proud of already
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I wonder how they will split the incentive for every Gold medal brought home coming from the basketball team. Incentive is around $16,800 USD and they will split that among all players since Basketball is considered as just 1 Gold medal.
Looks like all the Gold Medal are already awarded, 529 Gold medal has been awarded and that makes Philippines as the over all champion with a total of 386 medals (149 Gold, 117 Silver and 120 Bronze).