What's wrong with a Filipino coach? A Filipino coach will be coming from the same system that, for the meantime is problematic for us on the world stage. It's basically streetball. Iso-showboating, my-turn your turn, that's how our game has always been played. From the streets, to elementary and high school courts, all the way up to the PBA. How may teams/players innately pass rather than do a Kobe (Bryant) against 3-4 defenders? If you're a shooter, you're just some boring shooter. If you make the crazy spectacular plays, you're the man.
Filipino coaches, born, raised and bred in this system perpetuate it. We see that everyday on the courts & on TV. Until we are weaned from this streetball, my-turn, your-turn system, a Filo coach will always have difficulty beating teams with established systems. Unless we produce super players like JC, but 1 vs 5 is always disadvantaged in a team game. We can learn. And some of the younger coaches are already coming to this realization. The older Yeng Guiao, one time BCAP president and fiercely in opposition to foreign coaches already admitted this grudgingly, "napag-iwanan na tayo."
Why a foreign coach? Because they've had more success the past 50 years or so. Is it only because they're foreign? Of course not. Get the best man for the job that we can afford, if we're willing to spend. Countries with strong basketball programs, effective systems as evidenced by international success have useful knowledge. Why not leverage their knowledge when evidently, we're not getting the success we want on our own? Our educational system was Spanish, then American, but now we're training our own. Get the best person for the job, regardless of race.