Coach Yeng Guiao and the Philippine basketball team are not thinking of the so-called “Korean curse” that the media have been floating around as hounding the Filipinos campaign in the sport their countrymen love most in the on-going 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia

When Guiao and his men meet the Koreans today at 11 a.m. (Manila time) in the quarterfinal round, all they have in their minds is to win and make it to the Final Four on the way to the gold medal playoff and improve on the silver medal finish their predecessors fashioned out in 1990 in Beijing.

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