Some attempts at analysis are really too careless, and rather than establishing good points, such only establish the inability to carefully set the baselines, logframe and limits of such analysis.
I actually silenced some of my foreigner profs in economics before. They were too eager to show what their econometric models and pet theories can explain, without carefully mentioning what important things such cannot explain, or how the error terms and uncertainties have to be handled. (Of course, they never knew im good at advanced maths.) Ganyan din sa basketbol at kailangan din ng ingat.
Tim cone correctly identified for use at least 10 above-average two-way players. Basketball championships are always about creating opportunities for all players on the floor to shine, rather than try to shoe shine with hero balling as they repeatedly forced clarkson to desperately do.
Because gilas has no severe height and power disadvantages, only the talent and perseverance of pinoy players matter. With all cone's players excelling in opportunistic balling -- 70% of what it takes to consistently win -- trying to overload defenses and offenses on kai wont work. The present boston celtics are the best situational opportunists ive seen in a while. They seem to be winning more than they lose.
Kai already is very good at hanging around the basket for opportunistic shots, discouraging opponent shots, blocks and rebounds. They cant box him out because our forwards and guards do not lack slashing size, physicality and quickness in the paint. More so if other teams cannot intimidate our genuine skilled partner-bigs like fajardo, edu and aguilar, who are now familiar with high-intensity fiba wars.
in other words, what is the point of trying to contain sotto, when the opponent's players cannot even slow down the other 4 pinoy ballers on the floor??? Did you guys watch the game and see the predicament of the taipei coach? None of his guards cant stop our tough guards, and none of his forwards cant stop or go through our talented forwards. Kai was therefore never under pressure to over-perform. He can dance whatever he wants.
