The Philippine basketball community gave the men's national basketball team a round of applause for the effort it showed in an 82-80 loss to China in the Asian Games in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Here are some comments online:

Great fight, fellas! S/o to @cstandhardinger , #RakNRoll, #PoyErram , @agelessasi88 , #BeauBelga !! If only people knew how hard it is to battle it out among the trees of china. #Puso #LabanPilipinas

— Kiefer Ravena (@kieferravena) August 21, 2018

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Big CONGRATS to Coach Yeng and the guys. Now the focus goes to Korea. Get past them, then the guys will put the hurt on China the second time around. #learnfromfailing #puso #nsd

— Tim Cone (@manilacone) August 21, 2018

The good thing is we play Korea on Aug 27 pa. 6 more days for @JordanClarksons to acclimatize & get ready for another 🔥🔥🔥 game. Another 6 days for Coach Yeng to prepare the team for battle #💪🇵🇭❤️

— Chot Reyes (@coachot) August 21, 2018

Great game GILAS!!!!!!! Sayang we almost had it

— joe devance (@jdv_38) August 21, 2018

Good game by Gilas. We’ll get them back in the medal rounds!

— Matt Ganuelas-Rosser (@Real_Mateo) August 21, 2018

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