PBA Latest News and Updates

[kd19orcinus]

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kinsa mai maayong mo depensa nga player karon? naa pa ba si Rey Evangelista?

He is still playing with purefoods... di na kau taas ug playing time.... di na sad kau effective iya defense kay dghan naman mga batan.on..... Don don can still play defense, though iya role is to score man jud...

[T-Bag]

yeah Dondon is the best defensive player sa iyaha nga position right now...

Overall defensive player for me is Rudy Hatfield and Wilson of SMB...

[clarkhkent]

Guiao, Lim sacked for 2 games

The Philippine Star 12/06/2006

Talk n Text team manager Frankie Lim and Red Bull coach Yeng Guiao were give severe disciplimary measures in the aftermath of their ugly fight triggering a near free-for-all in their game Thursday in Tacloban, Leyte.

Maintaining their actions were "totally unacceptable," PBA commissioner Noli Eala suspended both for two games.

He also said he will also impose fine Lim and Guiao though he’s yet to determine the amount to be levied on the two.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200612061610.htm

[thadzonline]

ato ning buhion..unsa na ang PBA?

[baju83]

btaw I was reading page one wla ko ka bantay pag 2006 paman diay ang mga post...

[clarkhkent]

5 new rule changes in PBA


THE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is leaning toward adopting certain FIBA rules after the league’s competition committee approved five rule changes that will be tested first in the preseason tournament.

The five-man committee, headed by Chito Salud, started to disseminate the rule changes to the 10 member-teams yesterday afternoon and they will seek the approval of the board in their next meeting.

**First among the changes is that the league will shorten the three-point distance from 22 feet to 20 feet. The rule, the committee said, will definitely increase scores and may affect the slasher-type player as the space he needs to operate will be lessen.

**The three-second area will now have a shape of a trapezoid instead of the previous rectangle, giving post-up players more space to maneuver.

**The hand-check rule will now be allowed as the league noticed that in the tournaments sanctioned by FIBA, the referees are allowing such move.

“The referee will give the defensive player some leeway but the referee can decide if he restricts the movement of the offensive player,” said Perry Martinez, member of the committee and also the league’s technical head.

**The other rule change is the last two minutes penalty situation. Here, when a team commits two fouls in the last two minutes of each quarter even if it has not committed the usual five fouls, that team will be in penalty.

The rationale behind, the committee explained, is to discourage a team that saves fouls in the first 10 minutes of the game and uses the allowed fouls in the remaining two minutes that may prolong the game.

**The “free ball” rule will also be implemented in the coming preseason tourney, which will start tomorrow. This rule allows an opposing player to interfere with the ball even if it is still on the ring.

Besides Salud, son of former PBA Commissioner Rudy Salud, and Martinez, the other members of the competition committee are Tim Cone from the coaches’ side, PBA operations head Rickie Santos, Samboy Lim from the team managers’ sector and Gregorio Llaguno, the league’s referee supervisor.

According to Martinez, there were actually eight proposed changes for the coming season upon consulting with former National Basketball Association referee Allan Henderson, but the committee opted to implement five.

“Why these five? They can affect the game for sure but they are the safest to implement,” said Martinez.

According to Santos, one member suggested to copy the FIBA style on substitution where each team can sub as many players as it wants in any dead-ball situation.

“That one was not approved because it will delay the game for at least 10 minutes. Hindi kaya ng PBA na ma-delay ng ganung katagal ang laro,” said Santos.

“Hindi naman lahat ng FIBA rules, gagamitin natin. Unti-unti muna and from there, tingnan natin kung magiging exciting ang laro with those rule changes,” Santos added.

[yokam]

It's a great news knowing that the PBA is somewhat adapting to FIBA basketball.

[thadzonline]

and good to know open sila to change, it shall increase our chances to play better FIBA brand of basketball

[amamangloy]

daghan na kaayog three-pointers converted ani rn....

[thadzonline]

mas gamay na sad highlights nga dunks? kay less space to maneuver man, then allowed pa jud ang handcheck in some situations