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NCC was properly handled and that time they really know the importance of foregn coach. Chua is a scary monster from smc, he is not aware of modern international basketball, he is more of a PR person, and he does not have good relationship with Coach tab. Chua is very critical against foreign coach in national team ,he is a bcap supporter who is anti foreign coach and consultant, and what scares me is he will assign one dimentional coaching Austria as one of the coach, mister asa kay Kraken.
To much politics, and nepotism that is why we are not getting a blessing of a win. SBP needs to learn from there mistakes or else the worse monster SMC will come out.
I dont think SMC is necessarily worse. The solution to the woes of philippine basketball will always involve more funding.
SMC may have the funding, but are they willing to invest it in grassroots development, training players for their international positions? Can they use it to hire a foreign mentor to our good local coaches, to prepare them for the international game? This is a different SMC from the one before, when Danding hired Ron Jacobs, and under Kume Eala, SMB got Rajko Toroman as a consultant. This is Boss Al we're talking about.
Because, based on track record compared to Ateneo and even Beda, development in Letran (which is SMC-sponsored) isn't exactly the best for international ball. I mean, Letran has had just Abando and Ambohot as potential FIBA-fit players, while Ateneo has produced Dwight Ramos, Thirdy Ravena, Will Navarro, and Ange Kouame. Beda has produced Robert Bolick and Calvin Oftana. That's the development aspect.
Plus, Boss Al isn't known to like foreign coaches, and lashed out at Tab for the "tactical immaturity" comments. Yes, there's Chito Victolero, who's the SMC coach most fit for the international game, but his tactics may need refinement for FIBA, and a good foreign head coach as a mentor can help with that.
Given that history, are they willing to invest their funds and time in grassroots development? Are they willing to use it to hire a reputed foreigner to serve as mentor to our good local coaches, someone as successful as at least a Nenad Vučinić?
That's the reason why we have reservations about SMC managing SBP. They have a lot of questions to answer, and a lot to prove.