before talking easily about our kids having foreign exposure and all, and just disregarding local leagues high school, college and PBA professional, let us not take away basketball as a way of life and religion in the Philippines.. basketball is life here in the country.. yes you may say we too much pride for it.. but regardless, basketball is valuable and very dear to the Philippines.. a lot of you laugh and ridicule chot reyes, including me when he said "sa Pilipinas bawal matalo sa basketball eh"... but deep inside that is the truth... any loss whether it is from a basketball powerhouse or whatnot, pains us very much.. bawal talaga matalo sa basketball because if we lose in basketball, it is as if we lost in life.. that is why basketball is a way of life here..
and having the PBA, one of the more established leagues in the world (i didn't say prestigious, i said established there is a difference) with more than 40 years of existence, plus the NCAA and UAAP having been here longer than the PBA, we cannot just put them aside like paper crumpled to be thrown in the trash can.. YES DEVELOPMENTS ARE NEEDED IN ALL OUR LEAGUES ASAP!!! but solving our problem of having a successful NT program by escaping and shunning away our own leagues is like avoiding problems rather than facing them..
no matter how hard we try clamping on our basketball stakeholders PBA, UAAP, NCAA, etc.. even falling on deaf ears.. we shouldn't stop and even try harder.. buhay natin yan.. we just need to be extra patient.. we need to find a way to combine commercialism and development.. there is a way.. might not be now, but eventually we will find a way..
BUT there is no harm, in fact it is a requirement for us to have players with foreign exposure and development, even reaching the NBA, Euro leagues, even NBL to have a more successful NT and program.. but not as if the whole composition of the program consists of foreign based players..