and how sure are you that Tab will select or will have this current team, as i can see him going to the route of his 2021 team and might even choose Kouame as his naturalized player
Decent is still losing. Remember we couldn't beat Jordan.
i mean look at Japan and Korea. They have not had a close game in this WC despite all the Euro plays they execute.
Decent is still losing. Remember we couldn't beat Jordan.
i mean look at Japan and Korea. They have not had a close game in this WC despite all the Euro plays they execute.
I believe Tab would've chosen JC still, but he would demand more time and commitment from these players (JC coming in a few weeks before WC, Kai resting).
IMO, that FIBA OQT gilas team offense FLOWS better than this WC team. If pros executed Tab's system we have a legitimate shot at reaching QF at least.
But aside from that Gilas couldve had higher quality tuneup games than the one's Chot planned as Tab is more respected in the intl community.
That's very reductive.
Fact: Tab had no access to PBA players, Edu was still recovering, JC is not available, Brownlee couldn't have been used because of Tab's bad relations with the PBA
Not a fact: "an L is an L" weh di nga
This isnt a fair ground to compare Chot and Tab, let's make it fair and put the facts on the table
Funny enough, it turns out it is not Kai that makes a center NP not a requirement, it is Edu. But if Kai doesnt show up we will have a problem. Edu is a PF to maximize his health. Without Junemar and Japeth and if Kai still disappoints who will play C to Edus PF? A healthy Kouame might be the answer. Edu showed that you can recover after surgery. Whats keeping Kouame? Its obvious he is playing injured
and how sure are you that Tab will select or will have this current team, as i can see him going to the route of his 2021 team and might even choose Kouame as his naturalized player
EVERY single person in the OQT era awaited the return of Edu and the replacement of Kouame for Clarkson, like every single one, idt anyone ever disagreed on Edu and Clarkson's future inclusions, even Tab I believe said something about those 2. The rest were subject to debates but another widely agreed future sentiment is replacing Sj and Rj with Perez and Bolick. The only decisions idk Tab would undertake is making space for Japeth and Fajardo, some people believe players like Chiu shows a lot of upsides and are very malleable prospects, potentially more useful in the international stage in the future.
EVERY single person in the OQT era awaited the return of Edu and the replacement of Kouame for Clarkson, like every single one, idt anyone ever disagreed on Edu and Clarkson's future inclusions, even Tab I believe said something about those 2. The rest were subject to debates but another widely agreed future sentiment is replacing Sj and Rj with Perez and Bolick. The only decisions idk Tab would undertake is making space for Japeth and Fajardo, some people believe players like Chiu shows a lot of upsides and are very malleable prospects, potentially more useful in the international stage in the future.
Tab always had to maximize what was available (2015 FIBA ASIA -- we were a Junemar or Japeth away from Olympics) .... Meanwhile Chot always had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He had an option to include Bolick and Heading in the pool, had an option to choose Ray Parks as well, instead we ended up with Pogoy & Kiefer....
Imagine SGA with an NBA title-contending team.
Imagine Canada next year in Paris with SGA, Murray, Wiggins, Lu Dort, Dwight Powell, Alexander Walker, Cory Joseph, Trey Lyles, Kelly Olynyk and Dillon Brooks.... with their Spanish coach.
That's an NBA Playoff Team.
Tab might have picked Chiu over Japeth.
So many empty seats in a Canada-France game. WTF.
Their biggest rival here will be Dominican Rep.... Since DR has easy group compare to Canada... unless both of them surpass team USA....
Lets not undervalue our team. JC might be an NBA player but Edu showed us that he is almost NBA level on defense. Edu is so good at defense even after 3 knee surgeries he was able to defend Towns better than all the other Euro league or NBA centers that Towns playes against in the tuneups.
We had a chance in this game because we have a player that so far no other team has. We have a player that can stop Towns enough times for us to almost win.
All the other level of DR players didnt matter. Quinones didnt matter. Liz almost didnt matter because DR was almost going exclusively to Towns. Edu was able to stop him enough times that Junemar stayed on the floor. DR didnt make plays for Junemars man because it wasnt Towns. It was almost a perfect game plan but Chot didnt prepare the only other player who couldve broken down the defense.
We had a perfect counter for Towns. Unfortunately Chot failed to game plan for the single weakpoint in our offense.
I don't think so... The France vs Canada was attended by 12,091 fans... Highest outside Group A games... Italy vs Angola was attended by 22k fans... The Indonesia Arena capacity is 16k... It was almost full to the rafters.... The lowest was Australia vs Finland that has only 5,600 fans (Okinawa Arena has only 10k capacity).... As expected, Gilas vs DR is highest w/ 38,211 fans
I think edu did his best but we should calm down about Edu’s defense he still had 4 fouls and Towns still put up 26 and 10