As the game clock ticked down inside the Filoil Flying V Centre and the rabid army of Filipino fans began chanting jubilantly after a last-second heave from Thailand which wouldn’t have counted anyway, members of the Gilas Pilipinas Women 3×3 national team — Afril Bernardino, Clare Castro, and Janine Pontejos — formed a circle, shouted ecstatically, and started celebrating for the country’s gold medal finish in the first-ever 3×3 basketball event of the 30th Southeast Asian Games Philippines 2019.