A 2nd place finish behind Australia is a win for me; it just means we are the best legit Asian team. Although beating Australia was possible if not for Kai's injury. They didn't field any NBA players during the last Asia Cup anyway, and Lebanon made them work for their money. Having the same finish as Lebanon’s Asia Cup run this August would be considered progress and a win.
Australia is the bench mark.
They are the toughest team in the zone.
So you do confirm that anything less than beating Australia is a failure?
What's everyone's expectations? Without Kai a podium finish still possible IMO. With him of course I think anything less than top 2 finish might be a disappointment to a lot of people considering how people dissed all the other countries except OZ
Minimum goal: 2nd place
Golden goal: 1st
you don’t get 1st without beating Australia
W/o Kai, finishing 4th would be satisfactory for me with a bit of a disappointment. Finishing 3rd would be fairly good. Finishing 2nd would make me happy. If we end up with the 2025 Asia Cup title, I would be ecstatic.
Anything lower than 4th place would be frustrating.
First, you LOLed/laughed at the prospect of us beating Australia.
Then you make beating Australia the "bench mark"
Now you're saying it shouldn't be that impossible and just falling 1 game short should be the minimum achievement.
I lol’d because the task is very difficult especially with Kai out. I didn’t ridicule our chances of winning the whole thing.
what’s your problem? We placed 9th in 2022. Is that acceptable? No.
beating australia is the bench mark because if we can’t then how do you expect to challenge other world level teams?
Where did I say it shouldn’t be impossible? 2nd place is achievable and 1st place is the golden goal because it’s hard as hell and low probability.
Nah, I said winning in August is the ultimate goal of Gilas.
For some reason you only consider us winning if we beat Australia. Like beating multiple teams to reach the Finals is "not winning."
Sure it's great to think that beating teams like Australia should be a consistent goal. But let's consistently take care of teams like Lebanon, Japan, China,etc first.
CTC trying to make it clear that Doha and the 3rd window will be used as preparation for the Asia Cup in August. Specifically, a priority will be to use it to incorporate Edu into the system. In other words, winning this immediate games will not be the overriding goal...winning in August is.
That means experiment, work out the kinks, test the bench guys a lot.
But of course, once games commence, many will expect Gilas to go for the win like the fate of all Pinoy babies is on the line.
Lol You wanna play semantics?
I understood winning in august meant winning the gold.
Maybe specify clearly what you mean.
Let’s just leave it at: finishing as high as possible in August
I agree with you. Since most of the guys are not healthy and unavailable, I also expect CTC to experiment with different combinations. And totally runs through August which by this time we have built chemistry.
CTC has just won an Asiad Gold, swept a FIBA window and he may make the Asia Cup his next goal.
Hopefully, many will have the same understanding.
The thing is, when the games come around people will get tunnel vision again and forget the big picture.
It's almost a given that people would over react base on one game.