24th FIBA-Asia Championship [Jul 28-Aug 5 Japan]

[TechSupport]

hey, can u name an asian country aside from china who can beat a team with 7'3" monster import? and bottomline is, our NT team went there not to aspire for the championship but just to learn or at least see how other countries have developed. i mean their NT players who are playing there.
and one thing more, if we bring the worst team in our div1 and put a 7'3" monster import and another who has a very good touch in shooting. i think they can beat the saba battery of iran convincingly.

he already figured out how the philippines will fare against the other asian teams when the philippines lost to iran with a 7'3" dominating import and another import good enough to be payed thousand of dollars. he is saying the rp team that lost to latvia by 8 points which of course composed of players trying out for a slot in the rp team would have lost by a bigger margin if 4 of its other nt players played inculding golden states' biendrins. he forgot that that rp team didnt have the 10 players(im going to repeat - not 4 but 10) from the current team. and to think that it is not really a team and lost by 8 points against a real team with 8 of its players are from the nt. he only sees his side. no other else. now, may i ask the same question? where did he get all this wisdom from? watch out! he'll dunk on you.

[bsgermany]

Why don't we just wait for the Asian Champs and see how dominating (or not) the Philippines really going to be?

I wrote, refering to the results of the Club Champs and the loss to Iran in the friendly:" I don't think this is yet any kind of indication for being the number one contender for the olympic ticket." I still don't know what's wrong with that statement, or did the Philippines really come up with convincing results?

As for the game against Latvia - you don't really believe the Philippines could keep up with the best in Europe do you?

[daniab]

daniab/karim, do you know the complete line up of lebanon who will be at the tokushima games? do they naturalized some players too just for the july games? i believe series of exhibition games between lebanon NT and philippine NT will be played here in the philippines just before the olympic qualifier in japan.

At the moment,Lebanese NT didn't have a coach ,in few days will come a new coach(Dragan ratza or Elias zoros) one of them will make a contract with lebanese federation.I will tell u the lebanese NT news when they get ready !!

[TechSupport]

the loss to iran in the friendly game is similar to what happened to lebanon when they lost twice against a ragtag philippine team. trying to figure out what they dont know with our brand basketball. im the only one here that is saying the win over lebanon last year is nothing. yeah we have something to read in the newspapers after those wins but lebanon got the better of it by learning more how to play good one on one players. it "might" have something to do with their wins in WC. take note of the word "might" to avoid violent reactions.

[TechSupport]

regarding the philippines matching up against the best of europe? hold your horses! we're talking about latvia and now you're talking about europe. lets focus with latvia and we'll do europe later. me doing a *wink* *wink*.

[vladski]

he already figured out how the philippines will fare against the other asian teams when the philippines lost to iran with a 7'3" dominating import and another import good enough to be payed thousand of dollars. he is saying the rp team that lost to latvia by 8 points which of course composed of players trying out for a slot in the rp team would have lost by a bigger margin if 4 of its other nt players played inculding golden states' biendrins. he forgot that that rp team didnt have the 10 players(im going to repeat - not 4 but 10) from the current team. and to think that it is not really a team and lost by 8 points against a real team with 8 of its players are from the nt. he only sees his side. no other else. now, may i ask the same question? where did he get all this wisdom from? watch out! he'll dunk on you.

Hmmmm... i heard that "dunk" thing again...

[vladski]

regarding the philippines matching up against the best of europe? hold your horses! we're talking about latvia and now you're talking about europe. lets focus with latvia and we'll do europe later. me doing a *wink* *wink*.

I can see now where this conversation is heading to....

Jumping from one topic to another??? sounds familiar..

I guess, he's good enough to talk about the latvia game...

i shall be waiting...

[Servinio]

If you talking about history..

RP team won bronse medal in OLYMPICS since 1956... long time ago....
too long but we made a history...

No one asian team yet overcome or level that achievement when it comes on basketball competition...

YOU MUST be referring to the 1954 World Championship in Brazil where the Philippines finished in Third Place behind legends Carlos Loyzaga and Lauro Mumar.

The Philippines best finish in the Olympics was in the 1936 Berlin Olympics were the team nicknamed "The Islanders" and bannered by Sen. Ambrosio Padilla, Jacinto Ciria Cruz and Charles Borck finished in Fifth Place. This despite the very complicated format that saw the Filipinos lose only once in the entire tournament and it was against eventual Gold Medalist the United States.

To this date, no Asian team has surpassed these achievements.

[brownwarrior]

I believe the Olympic spot will be a 3 way battle among Philippines, Qatar, and Lebanon. I predict South Korea's young team to be ousted in the quarters, as well as Japan.

[brownwarrior]

when will the disillusioned learn when when they see the light, as u and i have seen.

also the 49ers are not a strong stable team in div 1 ncaa play. so what they made the big dance last tourney. didnt fullerton take out the phil nt squad? 49ers are nto a strong enoguh squad with a history to say "look we beat them we are good" no if u put duke, unc, texas, indiana, syracuse(who plays more intl style of play) then yeah i would have something to cheer on and say yesu make a valid point. just for the lvoe of god and past century worshipping to my fellow ancesters on this board stop saying whose dick is bigger thru past accomplishments...dwell on the present and worry about the future of what we can do and how we can prepare to be competitive in a globalizing sport

Very POETIC.

[utog10]

Team Philippines will definitely rock the basketball arena this abc. They shocked the US NCCA Div I teams led by an NBA veteran who played against M. JOrdan.... and the USBL selection team in their recent US training/camp.

This time, team PILIPINAS will bring the house down...

It's really good that other teams are not paying attention to RP team.. it's because we are sending class b & c in international competions... and also philippines were not able to play internationally for 2 years (i guess) because of the banned imposed by FIBA. They think philippines is just a weak team... but lebanon got a taste of what RP team is capable of... considering that lebanon played the RP Team B... not yet the best team...

This time we will be bringing in the very best of RP squad... watch out very carefully...

Why not ask the coaches from each participating team on who's the team to watch this coming ABC?

do you have any idea wwhich name will come out aside from China???

hehehe... i dont want to brag again... try searching the net about interviews of the head coache of other asian teams... especially those who had played the recently formed RP squad... and you should have read the interview of the American coach of Lebanon after playing gainst RP... He dreamed of coaching here in RP... the reason??? ask him... he's willing to give up Lebanon NT just to become a ballclub coach in RP... but no offer for him from any ballclubs in the PBA or any other leagues in the philippines.

Please ask your coaches...and you will know the answers...

nice one bro!!!! do you have the link for this????

[Dinamita]

6'7 fil-am sthepen hetkins....
any info of him guys?

[Dinamita]

he will be joining the PBA draft...
with 6'5 Gabe Norwood and 6'7 Joe Devance

[Projectspeed]

for me, the final Asian slot for the Olympics basketball competition will be up for grabs by the following countries...

Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Kazakstan, Iran

luck and the proper preparation will determine their placings

any team can beat each other out

[pachador]

just to verify, are you sure about the spelling of this 'sthepen hetkins' ??
thanks

6'7 fil-am sthepen hetkins....
any info of him guys?