All about FIBA Asia 2013 in Manila

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so if mikuyog si slaughter madala unta diay siya sa gilas? wa pa diay ni siya mugraduate?

depende ni chot, 12 ra bya jd ang kuhaon.
murag last year niya karon sa AdMU. HEHE!

maglagot ko magbasa sa uban forums ba, maynta daw tangtangon si Fajardo sa GILAS ig.fiba world cup sa spain kay mao daw makapa.bad image sa PILIPINAS, kay abi palang sa mga taw ang mga taga Pilipinas kay bati ug nawng kaay naa si FAJARDO ang kapre. tsk3! mosugot mo ana na in.anaon ila atong kababayan nga si FAJARDO? tsk3!

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ahhhh... ka daghan uroy mga bati og nawong na player

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World Cup: ‘Pinoys need more size’

THERE’S no better advice Gilas Pilipinas received on its coming trip to the Fiba World Cup in Spain next year than from the one who had experienced it first hand.
Iran’s Slovenian coach Mehmed Becirovic said that Gilas Pilipinas would need two to three more big men to get a fighting chance in the world championship.
“They (Filipinos) need size, that’s for sure,” said Becirovic, after the Iranians roughed up Gilas Pilipinas, 85-71, in the gold-medal match of the 27th Fiba Asia Championship on Sunday night at Mall of Asia Arena.
“They will need two to three more men who could defend and score inside,” he added.
The world championship is not unfamiliar ground to Becirovic, who led Slovenia to eighth place (five wins, four losses) in the 2010 Fiba World Championship in Istanbul.
With Becirovic at the helm, Slovenia beat Tunisia, Croatia, Brazil, Iran and Australia. The losses came from Turkey, Spain, Russia and NBA-powered United States.
Asian countries Iran and China finished with 1-4 records in the previous worlds while Lebanon and Jordan lost all their five outings.
On Sunday, Iran frontliners Hamed Haddadi (7-2) and Ashgar Kardoust (6-9) hammered the Filipinos inside the paint while 6-foot-8 swingman Samad Bahrami and peppery guard Mahdi Kamrani combined to apply pressure each time Gilas mounted a comeback.
Gilas’ 6-10 center Marcus Douthit didn’t play due to an injury, forcing coach Chot Reyes to lean on 6-6 Ranidel de Ocampo and 6-4 Marc Pingris in the shaded area along with 6-9s Japeth Aguilar and Junmar Fajardo.
“(The Filipinos) cannot play this way in the world championship,” said Becirovic. “It’s an entirely different level. You can only play this way if you have a big crowd behind you.”


World Cup:

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Unofficial trailer but grabe goosebumps..
featured ang Gilas

See you in 2014 - FIBA Basketball World Cup 2014 - YouTube

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NATURALIZATION: IS IT THE FINAL SOLUTION TO OUR ATHLETIC WOES?



The recently concluded FIBA Asia Championship Games held in Manila once again confirmed a couple of interesting albeit previously known facts that were practically ignored for time immemorial in the Philippines.

First, given the proper financial backing, the country can host huge international events with immense success. Business exectuve and philanthropist Manny Pangilinan has proven that again and again.

Pangilinan’s generosity is indeed awesome and it showed the way for many more financial moguls in the country what they should be doing with their money to help the country establish national pride even only in athletics.

But most especially, it vividly displayed the shameful political maneuvering that resulted in the lack of consistent and adequate government support for our sports programs. Therefore, our athletes’ success in international competitions are far and in between.

In addition to the above, it also demonstrated how quickly our politicos will grab hold of a situation and maximize their public exposure for political profits. The big-named politicos where nowhere around to watch live competitions when the athletes where not doing so good. But behold, as soon as they reached the peak, the politicians were all over “showing their support” and their faces.

Second, the FIBA Games again demonstrated that in many types of athletic competitions, Filipinos will be hard pressed to hit the top not because of lack of desire or heart but because we lack size and bulk.

And, this is true particularly in basketball, a game we often call our “national sport” owing to the fact that there is a hoop in every dirt lot even in far flung barangays.

This disadvantage in size and bulk was demonstrated in the championship game against Iran. It played a great deal of difference particularly inside the paint area.

When Marcus Eugene Douthit got injured in the game against South Korea, Gilas as hard as they tried, did not have adequate answer to the bigger and taller Iranians in the gold medal game.

Yesterday, Deputy Speaker Roberto Puno did a privilege speech to congratulate Team Gilas for its success in getting themselves qualified for the World Games next year in Spain. He also thanked all those who had a hand in their success particularly the ever generous Manny V. Pangilinan.

Along the way, Puno proposed a resolution that would naturalize at least two more non-native born athletes to supplement the Philippine team.

He cited Qatar and South Korea as examples, two countries who have no misgivings about being represented by non-native players just to win games.

Puno’s proposals, to this writer, are misdirected. Why find a temporary short term solution for a long term goal?

Is winning with the help of non-native born athletes our only goal? Are the Games only about winning?

Where has our national pride gone?

This writer believes that instead of going the short way by giving citizenships to foreign athletes purely due to their athletic prowess, the government should provide long term and adequate financial support and properly develop our native players from the grass root level.

If we need foreign aid in athletics, this is where we should focus.

Government should provide consistent and adequate funds to hire professional coaches who can help develop our programs in conjunction with our talented pool of native coaches.

The key here is “long term and adequate support” sans political interferences.

Puno can get this done by passing legislation to permanently and adequately fund our national athletic programs. In the process, Puno can also include a proviso to pick a Commissioner or overseer (but not “Trapos”) to guide the athletic programs in the country.

Our native players developed this way will not guarantee that we will get to the very top particularly in basketball owing to our lack of size and bulk.

But we can develop athletes in other sports who can compete and possibly win a “gold” and give us that much needed national pride in sports.

I believe we can get that done without relying heavily on naturalization of foreign athletes.

b0ss, pardon my asking pero murag master mn ka ani hehe..

unsay grounds para ma NATURALIZE ang player?

ug unsa participation ni MVP sa Gilas? thanks b0ss

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b0ss, pardon my asking pero murag master mn ka ani hehe..unsay grounds para ma NATURALIZE ang player?ug unsa participation ni MVP sa Gilas? thanks b0ss

With naturalization bro I guess as long as willing ang person ma naturalize then thats it heheheMVP is the SBP president, xa sad ang sponsor sa team. Hosting of the event alone cost 70 million, doesnt include pa the training, salary and the 7 digit bonus na gihatag nya sa players

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from UBP page..

Scouting Report:
Eto man lang ang posibleng makakalaban natin.
USA National Pool:
Guards – Russell Westbrook, James Harden,
Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, Derrick Rose,
Damian Lillard, Bradley Beal, Klay Thompson,
Gordon Hayward, John Wall, Jrue Holiday
Wings – Kevin Durant, Paul George, Kawhi
Leonard, Harrison Barnes, Andre Iguodala
Bigs – Kevin Love, Anthony Davis, Blake Griffin,
DeMarcus Cousins, Greg Monroe, Andre
Drummond, Kenneth Faried, Larry Sanders,
Derrick Favors, Ryan Anderson, Mike Conley
-USA Today

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b0ss, pardon my asking pero murag master mn ka ani hehe..

unsay grounds para ma NATURALIZE ang player?

ug unsa participation ni MVP sa Gilas? thanks b0ss

Tubaga na imong pangutana...........

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Kung USA lang ato kontra wala gyud ta chance, lisod man gani pagdaug sa Jones Cup ra mga non NBA players ra gani to, pero sa uban team murag naa gyud ta chance labi na kung magdugang ta ug naturalized, nya ibabad na maayo c Fajardo ky dako chance mainhance iya skills.

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