It is clear that kai is willing to play after physical theraphy sessions. Sotto and baltazar, like clarkson, can be inserted even within a mere two weeks of adjustment. Though cj perez, parks and newsome can be more than decent small forwards in a pinch, baltazar, kai and aj can handle better forward positions with their size and skills. 6'6 malonzo at pf is decent, but too underpowered and undersized, and definitely not enough for bigtime fiba beyond-asian opponents. (Kai and oftana are also good fiba-grade shooting forwards.) They were all experienced national team players, with kai being the earliest continuously serving gilas player ever.
As for that wild animal coachot, he must be forced to shut the f*ck up. Mvp money talks: because it is real. Insulting kai for not being an nba player, coming from a talkative "puso-d screaming", arrogant idiot who was never even considered for the lowest nba job, is just too much. His equally incompetent relative also somehow worked in mysterious ways as the gilas youth coach. They are nt coaches because of mvp's money, and that is all.
No one anyway has ever accused coachot of being a great fiba national team coach.
He is just a lowly pba coach who just prayed to have the best available pba players, because he was never the best coach. He is nothing more than a smalltime favorite egret perched on top of mvp's carabao money.
The only material point is that clarkson, kai, abando and balti are the best "short-notice, instant-impact" players the nt can get to fight through world-class fiba national teams.
The sbp should be humble enough to make the right corrective things happen, despite what the arrogant pr*ck coach stupidly thinks is HIS team. A dumbf*ck coach who still does not know, or has common sense enough on, how to drastically reduce those disastrous careless turnovers and dangerously long non-shooting mentality lapses.
The ablest team is very likely with: center-pfs in edu, fajardo, sotto, baltazar and aguilar; combo-sfbg in malonzo, ramos, oftana, and; combo-sgpg clarkson, abando, thompson and cj. This proven two-way, rotation non-tiring, big-enough team should be tough enough to grind down italy, with really SMART, REPEAT SMART, COOL-HEADED COACHING.
