you know you're in trouble when your best 3pt shooters are kiefer & kai
and your best shooter is already cut from the team (parks), and media keeps hyping pogoy as the pba’s best shooter
In FB, I saw One Sports show a video of Pogoy saying that he is the "Bogdanovic ng Pinas." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Maybe the lack of defense, but the shooting? The difference couldn't be any more stark.
If this team had Tab's defense then it might have a chance against Italy and DR. Too bad they have Choke zero defense instead. Would be nice to hear the loud boos live. Hope the crowd wont be a letdown.
In FB, I saw One Sports show a video of Pogoy saying that he is the "Bogdanovic ng Pinas." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Maybe the lack of defense, but the shooting? The difference couldn't be any more stark.
The best big combo for defense and offense would be Kai and Aj but we all know that choke wont allow younger players to have major roles. Bigs also aren't really expected a lot in choke's scheme of things. This gilas would go places if we had a better coach. A frontline of Aj, Kai and Balti as sf would be too disruptive on defense. This gilas team's waterloo would be on the SF position. Chot doesnt know how to use height and will panic eventually that he will resort to his vaunted small ball until oblivion.lol
you are already making an excuse, in this game and the other game Kai played more minutes than Junemar but Junemar outperformed him
He is riding the Anti-Choke Bandwagon just to hide the disappointment of his boy toy who he claimed to be better than Wiseman, Chet and Wemby.
Blaming the minutes and the coach, their fallback excuse if all else fails. LOL.
https://www.spin.ph/basketball/fiba...ng-gilas-tuneup-a793-20230821?ref=home_feed_1
JC’s already getting tired from the tuneups. I think him playing PG is just too heavy a load. It seems Scti is not yet up to the task. Too bad we had a PG who did decently last WC but was not considered.
I think using JB backfired for us. JB had an ingrained connection with Scti and Jamie. Now we are asking JC to create for us and play 30 minutes. Thats too much. If we had CJ more playmaking reps in the windows he might be more reliable now.
The qualifiers shld have been about training up guys who had potential in the WC like CJ as playmaker or Jamie as SF. But no. The qualifiers had no rhyme or reason. We played with Brownlee a lot, who made things easy for everyone, particularly Scti and Jamie, as well as playing 5 or 4. Then we had to learn how to play again without JB in Europe. The. now playing with JC. No wonder are only consistency now is, asa kay JC.
This cycle, there's the Gilas team which had guys like Dwight, Isaac Go, and Baltazar (Juan GDL and Kobe were even part of that group) started from playing SEA-level opponents that had players like Jakrawan and Lester Prosper to being reinforced with Kai, Kouame, Navarro, RJ, and SJ (among others, they also had Tamayo who was massive for them) and gaining experience at the FIBA OQT's vs a Team B Serbia and a strong DR (without K.A.T.)... only to start from scratch with just Dwight and whoever was available depending on the window. We saw a lot of Kiefer, Malonzo, Parks, and Scottie plus pleasant surprises in Abando, Edu, and even Quiambao for a while.
In a perfect world, Tab would still be the coach and he'd have in the pool what was left of the 2019 team like JMF, Japeth, Almazan, Bolick, CJ, Paul Lee, maybe even Troy Rosario because he was part of Tab's previous Gilas team. Getting Brownlee as a naturalized player was a bonus because Chot didn't know what to do with Tab's 6 of 23 plus the impressive ones under him like Navarro, Baltazar, and both RJ and SJ. By the time Chot took over, the SEA-level has gotten higher (no pun intended), and only Dwight will make it to the final roster. I'm not even sure that Kai will make it.
13 made threes against 7, mexico is plus 18 in threes , while Gilas is plus 6 and plus 5 in 2 pt fg and FT respectively