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**dtfernando** · 04-07-2011, 07:31 AM

Fajardo, the slave gladiator-prostitute.

Available to be used any time by the friends of the beneficiaries of his UTANG NA LOOB. Beneficiaries who look at his honest provincial way of gratitude not as UTANG NA LOOB (gratitude) but simply as unpayable UTANG (debt or death, its the same).

Fajardo, the slave kraken. Playing from a forgetable league to an even more obscure league.

Still being reserved for San Miguel, Ginebra or B-Meg? Fajardo better use what remains of his sane brain to protect himself and his personal interests, and to never forget who betrayed and sold the three pinagsawaan slaves to Air21 like they were no more than bottles of stale beer or old chickens. This is the true reward for loyalty of faithful basketball players.

Fajardo, the doomed abused and misused basketball player.

**weward** · 04-07-2011, 08:14 AM

Fajardo should've been over by this level already.
He should've gone to another level...
what's happening..does his handlers know how to handle a player with a special case and potential as Fajardo?..
im not saying i know how to handle a player like fajardo and im better than his handlers, its just that imo as a fan, its not getting any better...

OT: anybody notice how good Samigue Eman had become? He is quicker under the basket now. Has good pair of hands. Stronger and knows how to move under the basket and knows how to use his body to bang and position for rebounds. He is playing like how kardoust plays for Iran--nothing outstanding but he gives a lot to his team.

**dtfernando** · 04-07-2011, 09:16 AM

Originally posted by weward View Post

OT: anybody notice how good Samigue Eman had become? He is quicker under the basket now. Has good pair of hands. Stronger and knows how to move under the basket and knows how to use his body to bang and position for rebounds. He is playing like how kardoust plays for Iran--nothing outstanding but he gives a lot to his team.

If Cone saw and played Eman when he was 18, Samigue would have been a national player several times over.

Cone even had the luxury of fielding Devance, Thoss and Eman in Alaska's last game probably as a just-in-case preparation also for Gilas. This trio is speedy enough, but not quick enough, to fully stop Douthit and Aguilar. But the three together, plus Alaska's physical playing forwards, and guards can really screw up Toro's plays the next time they meet. Again, if Cone started using this combination five years ago, it would have been extremely difficult to play Alaska well in the finals. TNT's much quicker players are probably the main thorn to Alaska's dreams.

There are still too many idiots who don't know how to optimize the use of tall players in the Philippines.

BTW, Khardoust has forgetable international basketball skills. But his determination to really mix it up under the basket and activeness will make even a Howard very uncomfortable in the keyhole area. If Eman and Slaughter reaches his stage, a Philippine team would have enough firmness in the middle to allow our quick guards and small forwards to effectively move in for the kill.

Of course Fajardo will be allowed by his benefactors to play for the national team when he is 64 years old.

**lovejones** · 04-07-2011, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by dtfernando View Post

Fajardo, the slave gladiator-prostitute.

Available to be used any time by the friends of the beneficiaries of his UTANG NA LOOB. Beneficiaries who look at his honest provincial way of gratitude not as UTANG NA LOOB (gratitude) but simply as unpayable UTANG (debt or death, its the same).

Fajardo, the slave kraken. Playing from a forgetable league to an even more obscure league.

Still being reserved for San Miguel, Ginebra or B-Meg? Fajardo better use what remains of his sane brain to protect himself and his personal interests, and to never forget who betrayed and sold the three pinagsawaan slaves to Air21 like they were no more than bottles of stale beer or old chickens. This is the true reward for loyalty of faithful basketball players.

Fajardo, the doomed abused and misused basketball player.

H'wag naman sana.

I understand your sentiments but don't be so hard on him. In reference to the game in question, maybe he was, unbeknownst to us, just out of shape, out of sorts, or just out of luck (yes, I am trying to find excuses for him). It happens.

Nevertheless, I am big believer of this kid. I thought he was just an overhyped and over-glorified Samigue clone who only had eye-popping stats (excluding the game in question of course) because of the quality of competition he had in Cebu. However, when I got to saw this ugly mofo live in the PCCL against my Blue Eagles and, later, against the Green Archers on TV, I was totally floored by the immense potential and the unholy union of power and grace this kid possesses.

I am not ashamed to say that from a snob who thought too little of him, I am now a big fan of his. Since he obviously doesn't have the mental faculty or strength of character of Greg Slaughter who sought to better himself (and my school in the process) by flying to Manila to train, let us not begrduge Junmar for showing loyalty to the school and the people that plucked him from poverty and obscurity to give him a better life (and basketball accolades for UC in the process).

Who knows? Maybe in this year's draft or the next he would be drafted by team who will willingly lend him for flag and country?

**geo** · 04-07-2011, 01:38 PM

[QUOTE=dtfernando;569844]If Cone saw and played Eman when he was 18, Samigue would have been a national player several times over.

I think Eman was part of the RP team under BAP of Graham Lim Back then that never played in the SEA games because we were suspended. I'm not sure because I lost my newspaper clippings.

**logre23** · 04-07-2011, 01:51 PM

[QUOTE=geo;569940]

Originally posted by dtfernando View Post

If Cone saw and played Eman when he was 18, Samigue would have been a national player several times over.

I think Eman was part of the RP team under BAP of Graham Lim Back then that never played in the SEA games because we were suspended. I'm not sure because I lost my newspaper clippings.

**nardy** · 04-07-2011, 03:28 PM

[quote=logre23;569942]

Originally posted by geo View Post

A true national team formed
Local basketball talents allowed to shine for the country

November 17, 2004, 8:00am

How often does an opportunity happen? To local basketball talents usually hidden in the provinces, maybe not very often. Given the fact that they do not usually have the means to travel to Manila to try out, these promising kids never get the chance to show and strut their stuff before the country’s leading coaches. And so they are left to just dream on. Recently, their dreams came true when “Try-Outs ng Bayan” arrived in their provinces.

A brainchild of RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Men’s Basketball Team manager and chief patron Jean Henri Lhuillier, "Try-Outs Ng Bayan" was a nationwide search for players for the men’s national basketball training pool.

"Try-Outs ng Bayan" allowed practically unknown young basketball players, who are "diamonds in the rough" so to speak, access to the opportunity to undergo a scientific and long-term training which would eventually give them the chance to wear the national colors as they play for the country in local and international tournaments.

The three-month long "Try-Outs ng Bayan" also featured basketball clinics in these cities led by the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team’s core members and facilitated by national coaches Dong Vergiere and Boycie Zamar.

The clinics provided the country’s younger players a chance to hone their skills and learn, first-hand, from their cage heroes. Participants were taught ball handling, dribbling, footworks, freethrows, power lay-ups and other basic techniques by the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team members.

"Try-Outs ng Bayan gave our kids the opportunity to learn new drills and meeting the members of the RP team was very encouraging for them. We appreciate the tremendous efforts that the BAP and Cebuana Lhuillier has poured into this project," said Dodong Bascon of Negros Basketball Association.

"The program does not only enliven basketball in the area, it also provided a new enthusiasm, upgraded knowledge and a new awareness level of the sport," added Ruel Roa Daba, Corpus Christi College Head Coach, Cagayan de Oro City.

"By bringing the "Try-Outs ng Bayan" to these talented kids, instead of them going all the way to Manila to try-out, we opened the door for a truly national team made up of members who come from different places of the country. They are given the opportunity to not just represent their provinces, but the country; and this, I believe, is something to be proud about," Jean Henri Lhuillier noted.

Many of the over 500 basketball hopefuls who trooped to these try-outs and the over 2500 young kids who joined the basketball clinics all over the country, most often with their parents and relatives in tow, remember the event as one big happy family activity.

"My son went home without even wearing his RP-Cebuana Lhuillier Team t-shirt because he wanted to display it for posterity’s sake. He said that he dreams to be part of the national team," said one Ilongga mother, speaking in her dialect, of her 10 year-old son who joined the basketball clinic.

The "Try-Outs ng Bayan" resulted in creating many opportunities for these aspiring players.

University of Mindanao (UM) forged a breakthrough partnership with the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) and Cebuana Lhuillier when the Davao City-based school agreed to lend its top two players to the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Men’s basketball team.

In simple turnover rites in Davao City, University of Mindanao Vice President for Academic Affairs Pedro San Jose and UM Wildcats head coach Atty. Manny Nitorreda officially allowed 6’9" center Samigue Eman and 6’3" swingman Eder John Saldua to be part of the training pool of the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team.

"Not allowing these players to play for their country is selfishness on our part," said Nitorreda, coach of the Wildcats since 1986. "Let’s look at it this way. UM may have lost two of its finest players but on the other hand, the school gets the exposure on the national level. Whatever these two can achieve, they will always carry the name of the school with them."

Present during the ceremony were RP-Cebuana Lhuillier assistant team manager Danny Francisco, national coaches Boysie Zamar and Dong Vergeire and the families of both Saldua and Eman.

"We are here to help these players realize their dreams. We’re not here to prevent them from playing professional basketball. That is what we want to happen, to see these players play in the PBA eventually.

We help train these players, hone their talents and after serving their country, they will be ready for the pro league," said Francisco, who once played for the National team in 1989.

San Jose also lauded the program of Cebuana Lhuillier for going to the provinces to look for talents who cannot afford to go to the National Capital Region to play basketball.

"Ito ang tunay na grassroots program. Now players who are deprived of chances like this can now have an equal chance of playing for the country," he said. "Eman and Saldua have become an inspiration to basketball players in the provinces. It gives them hope that they, too, can be part of the Philippine team. At sigurado ako na sa susunod na mag-conduct kayo ng "Try-Outs ng Bayan" mas marami pa ang sasali."

"I am glad to welcome these two fine players and hope that they will continue to give their best as they play for our national team. They will be role-models for the many aspiring young basketball players in the country especially their fellow Davaowenyos," RP-Cebuana Lhuillier Team Manager, Jean Henri Lhuillier, said.

The 22-year-old Eman, who saw brief action in the PBL last year, and the 20-year-old Saldua took part in the "Try-Outs ng Bayan."

"We are looking for players that are willing to stay and train with the RP team for a long time. Naniniwala kami na kung mas mahaba ang paghahanda natin ay mas malaki din ang tsansa nating manalo sa international competitions," said Vergeire.

Opportunities are hard to come by. When they do, one must be ready to take on the challenge and rise above it.

For the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Team, the Basketball Association of the Philippines and Cebuana Lhuillier, representing the other private sector supporters of Philippine basketball, the opportunity to help bring back the country to its premier position in Asian basketball with a truly national team made up of players from different parts of the country, has come.

They have all taken the challenge and with the doors opened for other stakeholders in Philippine basketball to help out, it is just a matter of time when we see the Philippine flag raised in the winners’ circle during international competition.

"This is what needs to be done: Everyone involved in local basketball working together for a common goal, learning the lessons taught to us in the past and, deciding on what has to be done. Cebuana Lhuillier is more than willing to do its share as we have shown by providing support to the national team. Given the opportunity and the resources needed for the team, we are prepared for a long-term program, working with everyone without conflict," added Lhuillier.

RP-Cebuana Lhuillier sasabak sa Jones Cup
(Pilipino Star Ngayon) Updated July 09, 2004 12:00 AM

Makikita na ang resulta ng puspusang pagsasanay ng RP-Cebuana Lhuillier men’s basketball team sa kanilang paglahok sa 26th William Jones Cup basketball championship sa July 23-Aug. 2 sa Taipei, Taiwan.

Ang Nationals ay pangungunahan nina SEA Games veterans Dennis Madrid, Celino Cruz, Ricky Calimag, Richard Melencio, Mark Magsumbol at Ralph Rivera. Kasama din sa lineup ang mga bagong tuklas na sina Eder John Sadua at Gerry Cavan at 6’9 Samigue Eman ng Davao, Ephraim Torio at Jayson Tiongson ng Baguio City at Don Rez Villamin. Sina Eman, Sadua, Cavan, Torio at Tiongson ay produkto ng "Tryout ng Bayan," ang talent search at identification program ng Basketball Association of the Philippines na ginanap sa kooperasyon ng Cebuana Lhuillier.

Si coach Dong Vergeire ang gigiya sa team kasa-ma ang mga assistant coach na sina Boysie Zamar at Arsenio Dysangco. Makakasama din sa biyahe sa Taiwan sina Jean Henri Lhuillier, head ng delegation; Daniel Francisco, team manager at Jose Miguel Jimenez, team leader.

Inaasahang mahigpit na makakalaban ng Pinoy ang mga teams mula sa Qatar, Japan, Russia, Korea All-Stars, New Zealand, Australia at host team Taiwan, na kinatawan ng Taiwan Young Men’s Team. Pinaya-gan ang Pinoy na maglagay ng import ngunit nagdesisyon ang RP Team na mag-all Pinoy upang masubukan agad ang kanilang hinahasang manlalaro.

RP five learns a lesson

The RP-Cebuana Lhuillier came under fire after its shocking loss to the National Basketball Conference’s expansion team Parañaque Jets in the finals of the regional league’s pre-season tournament last Sunday at the Rizal Coliseum.

But national team coach Boysie Zamar is unfazed. He’s not about to back out from the challenge.

“It’s a good thing that this happened now rather than in the Southeast Asian Games tournament proper,” Zamar said.

With only former pro Ruben dela Rosa the most senior in the line-up, the national team needs more experience and they have learned a well-thought lesson in the NBC pre-season debacle.

For coach Zamar, there were no excuses with the lost. That fateful Sunday, the Jets were the better team.

And the Jets did it without their celebrity players. They won through sheer hardwork and determination. The high-flying Alex Bognot, Mark Saquilayan, Rolly Basilides, tournament MVP Niño Marquez provided the points while unheralded big men Jovy Sese, Arden Guiyab, Larry Rodriguez and Jhayson Alminario played the dirty work inside.

The national team was caught off-guard after they beat the team of Vice-Mayor and actor/tv host Anjo Yllana in the elimination round with a masterful 114-88 win.

The national team has young versatile players in UST’s Dondon Villamin and Christian Luanzon, UE’s KG Canaleta, UP’s Edrick Ferrer, San Beda’s Jeffrey Bombeo, San Sebastian’s 6-foot-7 Pep Moore and Davao’s gem 6-foot-9 Samigue Eman.

They are just in their early 20’s and have sacrificed their commercial league playing careers just to don the national colors.

Uncharacteristically, they missed seven of their eight three-point attempts amidst a tight zone defense in the decisive fourth quarter, a mere shadow of their true form when they went 4-0 in the eliminations of the BAP-sanctioned short series by a winning average margin of 19.5 points.

Zamar hopes to translate this to something good at the end.

“These players obviously needs more seasoning and we’re getting it now. The NBC will be a good training ground with the home-and-away format and the crowd motivating the home team to beat us,” Zamar said. “We’re not expecting to win all the games in a silver platter.”

Asst. team manager Danny Francisco has recently agreed to let the RP squad play in the regular season of the NBC, which will run from April to September, as a guest team.

“I acknowledge the help the NBC is extending us. We’re trying to give the national team more tune-up games to prepare them for the SEA games and the NBC is just only one of the projected tournaments we are eyeing to play in,” Francisco said.

PARAÑAQUE 63 -- Basilides 12, Saquilayan 11, Bognot 10, Marquez 6, Araman 6, Guiyab 4, Yambao 3, Lopez 3, Sese 2, Alminario 2, Ruiz 2, Tolentino 2, Rodriguez 0, Aquitania 0

RP-CEBUANA 56 -- Canaleta 12, Bombeo 11, Villamin 9, Dela Rosa 8, Eman 6, Moore 6, Reyes 3, Ferrer 2, Luanzon 0, Latoreno 0

Quarters: 17-9, 35-34, 43-45, 63-56

Making the bottom line
THE GAME OF MY LIFE By Bill Velasco
The Philippine Star 04/16/2005

The RP Cebuana Lhuillier basketball team came under fire two days ago, in reaction to its second-place finish at the National Basketball Conference pre-season tournament at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.
Their runner-up finish to the Parañaque Jets, a new team with a veteran NBC coach in Jun da Jose, touched off outrage among high sports officials, tantamount to a verbal public stoning, the way criminals were punished hundreds of years ago.

Calls for the resignation of head coach Boyzie Zamar and the replacement of the entire team filled the sports pages. In essence, the experiment was considered a failure even before the team actually made it to any real competition.

Historically, when the team was first formed, Zamar and Dong Vergeire — both past coaches of Southeast Asian Games gold medal teams — were appointed by the Basketball Association of the Philippines to train the squad and form its strategy. However, it was not made clear who would act as head coach between the two. This caused some confusion at the critical starting phase. Nevertheless, Vergeire assumed command, and Zamar, an excellent scout in his own right, took the back seat. After a massive nationwide open call for players, the backbone of the team was formed around present and former collegiate players who did not have any Philippine Basketball League teams. It was difficult to find schools and commercial teams that would lend their tested players for the national cause.

Jean Henri Lhuillier, the team’s patron, provided all the resources, including building an impressive training facility in a secluded village in Las Piñas. The team’s mission is two-fold: place in the top two of the Southeast Asian Basketball Association (SEABA) tournament in Singapore in June to open the door for the PBA Philippine team to enter the FIBA-Asia tournament and, hence, earn an Olympic berth; and defend the SEA Games title.

In January, the team entered the Sinulog Cup, which featured a six-team line-up that included two URBL selections, a college team from Korea, a provincial team from China, and the host M. Lhuillier. After winning their first three games, RP Cebuana needed to win their fourth to make it to the finals, or at least, not lose by more than 16. But, in that game, and out-of-shape Jeff Flowers, playing for a hastily-formed Quezon Huskers, played impeccably and deflated the national squad. They were relegated to the battle for third, but in the process, became the only team without an import to place.

But during the tournament, an embarrassed Vergeire offered to resign, changing his mind the next day. Things seemed back to normal when the team resumed their training in Las Piñas. Then, immediately before the presentation of SEA Games athletes to sponsoring San Miguel Corporation, the BAP decided to make Zamar the head coach, after which, Vergeire promptly stopped attending practices and tune-up games. That was barely a month ago. Since then, the team lost its starting center and leader, Ricky Calimag, to the Sta. Lucia Realtors, and its starting point guard, Egay Echavez, to the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings, to fill the void left by the injured Jayjay Helterbrand. Suddenly, the team was without its two of its most potent contributors.

But, all throughout, RP Cebuana has been playing against — and mostly defeating — top PBL and college teams in frequent practice games.

"We hope to have at least 35 competitive games before the SEABA," Zamar said at the start of the NBC event. "That is our program. The NBC tournament is a big help to us."

At the start of the NBC joust, point guard Dennis Madrid, a calming influence and veteran of international competition as well as the defunct MBA, sprained his ankle, and was out for the rest of the tournament. Back-up BJ Manalo did not play, as he was still on his honeymoon. The team’s guard corps was depleted.

Still, the nationals blew out all their opponents in the elimination round, only encountering rough sailing in the final, where the Jets’ older players used their experience in fashioning a close win. Since then, the team has invited other players to bolster its line-up.

Unfortunately, the RP Cebuana Lhuillier team is like an anti-terrorist squad: the only time people can say you’ve done a good job is if nothing goes wrong, even if there are so many ways it could. They are like a security force escorting a priceless treasure, whose job is only accomplished once the treasure has reached its destination. In other words, they must preserve the status quo.

The bottom line for the unsatisfied is this: the RP Cebuana Lhuillier team has to start proving it can win, regardless of the conditions it finds itself in. They have to restore confidence in their system, and let their playing do the talking. In whatever other tournaments they join, they have to start bringing home gold, not silver or bronze. That is the status quo that people have been used to. And they knew this when they took on the job.

**Silent Killer** · 04-08-2011, 04:19 AM

[QUOTE=nardy;569991]

Originally posted by logre23 View Post

A true national team formed
Local basketball talents allowed to shine for the country

November 17, 2004, 8:00am

How often does an opportunity happen? To local basketball talents usually hidden in the provinces, maybe not very often. Given the fact that they do not usually have the means to travel to Manila to try out, these promising kids never get the chance to show and strut their stuff before the country’s leading coaches. And so they are left to just dream on. Recently, their dreams came true when “Try-Outs ng Bayan” arrived in their provinces.

A brainchild of RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Men’s Basketball Team manager and chief patron Jean Henri Lhuillier, "Try-Outs Ng Bayan" was a nationwide search for players for the men’s national basketball training pool.

"Try-Outs ng Bayan" allowed practically unknown young basketball players, who are "diamonds in the rough" so to speak, access to the opportunity to undergo a scientific and long-term training which would eventually give them the chance to wear the national colors as they play for the country in local and international tournaments.

The three-month long "Try-Outs ng Bayan" also featured basketball clinics in these cities led by the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team’s core members and facilitated by national coaches Dong Vergiere and Boycie Zamar.

The clinics provided the country’s younger players a chance to hone their skills and learn, first-hand, from their cage heroes. Participants were taught ball handling, dribbling, footworks, freethrows, power lay-ups and other basic techniques by the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team members.

"Try-Outs ng Bayan gave our kids the opportunity to learn new drills and meeting the members of the RP team was very encouraging for them. We appreciate the tremendous efforts that the BAP and Cebuana Lhuillier has poured into this project," said Dodong Bascon of Negros Basketball Association.

"The program does not only enliven basketball in the area, it also provided a new enthusiasm, upgraded knowledge and a new awareness level of the sport," added Ruel Roa Daba, Corpus Christi College Head Coach, Cagayan de Oro City.

"By bringing the "Try-Outs ng Bayan" to these talented kids, instead of them going all the way to Manila to try-out, we opened the door for a truly national team made up of members who come from different places of the country. They are given the opportunity to not just represent their provinces, but the country; and this, I believe, is something to be proud about," Jean Henri Lhuillier noted.

Many of the over 500 basketball hopefuls who trooped to these try-outs and the over 2500 young kids who joined the basketball clinics all over the country, most often with their parents and relatives in tow, remember the event as one big happy family activity.

"My son went home without even wearing his RP-Cebuana Lhuillier Team t-shirt because he wanted to display it for posterity’s sake. He said that he dreams to be part of the national team," said one Ilongga mother, speaking in her dialect, of her 10 year-old son who joined the basketball clinic.

The "Try-Outs ng Bayan" resulted in creating many opportunities for these aspiring players.

University of Mindanao (UM) forged a breakthrough partnership with the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) and Cebuana Lhuillier when the Davao City-based school agreed to lend its top two players to the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Men’s basketball team.

In simple turnover rites in Davao City, University of Mindanao Vice President for Academic Affairs Pedro San Jose and UM Wildcats head coach Atty. Manny Nitorreda officially allowed 6’9" center Samigue Eman and 6’3" swingman Eder John Saldua to be part of the training pool of the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier team.

"Not allowing these players to play for their country is selfishness on our part," said Nitorreda, coach of the Wildcats since 1986. "Let’s look at it this way. UM may have lost two of its finest players but on the other hand, the school gets the exposure on the national level. Whatever these two can achieve, they will always carry the name of the school with them."

Present during the ceremony were RP-Cebuana Lhuillier assistant team manager Danny Francisco, national coaches Boysie Zamar and Dong Vergeire and the families of both Saldua and Eman.

"We are here to help these players realize their dreams. We’re not here to prevent them from playing professional basketball. That is what we want to happen, to see these players play in the PBA eventually.

We help train these players, hone their talents and after serving their country, they will be ready for the pro league," said Francisco, who once played for the National team in 1989.

San Jose also lauded the program of Cebuana Lhuillier for going to the provinces to look for talents who cannot afford to go to the National Capital Region to play basketball.

"Ito ang tunay na grassroots program. Now players who are deprived of chances like this can now have an equal chance of playing for the country," he said. "Eman and Saldua have become an inspiration to basketball players in the provinces. It gives them hope that they, too, can be part of the Philippine team. At sigurado ako na sa susunod na mag-conduct kayo ng "Try-Outs ng Bayan" mas marami pa ang sasali."

"I am glad to welcome these two fine players and hope that they will continue to give their best as they play for our national team. They will be role-models for the many aspiring young basketball players in the country especially their fellow Davaowenyos," RP-Cebuana Lhuillier Team Manager, Jean Henri Lhuillier, said.

The 22-year-old Eman, who saw brief action in the PBL last year, and the 20-year-old Saldua took part in the "Try-Outs ng Bayan."

"We are looking for players that are willing to stay and train with the RP team for a long time. Naniniwala kami na kung mas mahaba ang paghahanda natin ay mas malaki din ang tsansa nating manalo sa international competitions," said Vergeire.

Opportunities are hard to come by. When they do, one must be ready to take on the challenge and rise above it.

For the RP-Cebuana Lhuillier National Team, the Basketball Association of the Philippines and Cebuana Lhuillier, representing the other private sector supporters of Philippine basketball, the opportunity to help bring back the country to its premier position in Asian basketball with a truly national team made up of players from different parts of the country, has come.

They have all taken the challenge and with the doors opened for other stakeholders in Philippine basketball to help out, it is just a matter of time when we see the Philippine flag raised in the winners’ circle during international competition.

"This is what needs to be done: Everyone involved in local basketball working together for a common goal, learning the lessons taught to us in the past and, deciding on what has to be done. Cebuana Lhuillier is more than willing to do its share as we have shown by providing support to the national team. Given the opportunity and the resources needed for the team, we are prepared for a long-term program, working with everyone without conflict," added Lhuillier.

the loss of cebuana lhuillier RP team led to FIBA suspension and that led also the preparation of coach chot's PHL team to olympics had gone to waste..

**QWERTY1234** · 04-10-2011, 06:39 AM