Gilas Pilipinas may seem to have an easy 89-61 win over Bahrain to kick off its 19th Asian Games gold medal bid in a strong note on Tuesday in Hangzhou, China.

But interim national coach Tim Cone knows the five newcomers in the team hold the key to how deep the Philippines will go in the quadrennial games.

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