MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine national basketball team is on its way to Taiwan, where they will play Chinese-Taipei in the third window of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifier later this week.

Wheels up to Taiwan 🇹🇼
— Gabe Norwood (@GNorwood5) June 25, 2018

Led by veterans Gabe Norwood, Jayson Castro, Japeth Aguilar, and June Mar Fajardo, the national team will take on Chinese-Taipei on Friday at the Taipei Heping Basketball Gym.

They were joined by Terrence Romeo, Roger Pogoy, Troy Rosario, Baser Amer, Jiovani Jalalon, Allein Maliksi, Carl Bryan Cruz, Calvin Abueva, and Matthew Wright.

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Completing the 15-man line-up are naturalized Filipino center Andray Blatche and Gilas Pilipinas cadet Troy Rike.

Gilas will try to duplicate its triumph over Chinese-Taipei last November, when they defeated the visitors 90-83 at the Araneta Coliseum.

Regardless of the result on Friday, however, the Philippines is already through to the second round of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers.

They wrap up their first-round schedule on July 2 against Australia.

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