Second Round: Day 2 (Group F) - Philippines vs. Japan

[durden_tyler]

Now your a believer that SG has a chance...thats the spirit dude!

Not much. But hey, i have to.

[RoadtoLondon]

Not much. But hey, i have to.

lol...at least you are!
Good luck on our Team...

[crouchingtiger]

or maybe thanks to the 2 yr basketball program and naturalization and not to the fall of the arab teams blah blah... if someone's going up someone's gonna fall down, so give credit that we're able to come up and not discredit it by saying arabs teams just fell down... if you think the the 2011 version of rp team isnt an improvement from the 2007 and 2009 version then you dont know what you're talking about...

this improvement would not be enough to beat china and iran though...

Credits should be given to Gilas program of course, compare to CT bb reform that took like 7-8 years until fruition, Gilas is way much faster. China is going through the stage of reforming too, Yao is out, Wang probably has one or two more good years to go, the transition stage for china can be painful.....I see Iran taking over china for the next 3 years if no superstar is going to be born in china.

[crouchingtiger]

lol china will beat this version of jordan 7 times a week, it doesnt matter with or without ref's help... doesnt matter what your complaints are for Yi and Wang, they may not be that good internationally, but they are just too good for their asian rivals... a more focused china will beat iran this time...

I see what you mean, but yesterday's game could have been a fairer game and the difference won't be that much. Anyways, I am a bit more pessimistic towards china's future, YJL don't match well against Hadadi, their new uprising star yi li is just so lanky and won't stand a physical game, I think the difference maker will still come down to the old reliable Wang, but if Iran can get Wang into foul trouble early on, it will be referees game again

[crouchingtiger]

That's why i was civil with you and never really considered you a plain "hater". i understand where you are coming from. And by now, you also have to understand where the "fanboys" are coming from-- they just want to support the team so whatever truth you tell them they treat it as insult (when in reality, it's just an observation of facts)

Anyway, what you can't take away from us is that our performance this year is definitely better than the last. How far will we go? i don't know, if we catch Korea/Iran in an offnight, we'd stand a chance. As i mentioned, we need a bit of luck on our side and well, hope at some point Korea/Iran shows some cracks. Then we'd have another shot at China.

Thank you my friend for understanding me, I am just a critique who always watch bb from third persons stand point

[Guts]

Where your balls now Pychopath, you said its a sure loose for the smart gilas vs japan,,, stand by your words and dont post here anymore, just SHUTUP if you cant cheer for your own country period.

[RoadtoLondon]

Where your balls now Pychopath, you said its a sure loose for the smart gilas vs japan,,, stand by your words and dont post here anymore, just SHUTUP if you cant cheer for your own country period.

no need for that.. his just and avid fan of SG trying to minimize his expectation...lol

[j_abellana]

Not that I am pouring cold water on you Durden, since we are long time friends here in interbaket I mean no offense but RP needs more than high spirit and better tactics to pull a win against teams like Korea or Iran, we have discussed this years back, your team needs to fortify on the 4 and 5 spots, both height and skills and one player to do that job is definitely not enough, you need probably another 2, 3 NBA second rounders to do the job. That's the short cut probably a lot of RP patriots don't like to see, but being short in stature there is really nothing much you can do about it. Gilas obviously did not work out well, name me the young prospects developed from this program aside from Aguilar, nada.

I wouldnt call aguilar a real prospect. The guy is seriously limited in his skills. You are right about the height thought, short of starting some eugenics program- were gonna be relying on naturalized or half filipino big men- just cant be helped really. I'm really hoping they make a better program than gilas, dont just start in the collegiate level- start sooner. more in the high school levels (12-13 years old in the philippines) Train up those possible prospects early..

[bukag.2011]

Pilipinas All The Way !!!

Pilipinas rose not because of the downfall of the Arab. where the H3LL did you get that idea? so silly of me, but it is as if THEY taught us to play the game.

i do not know about zimbabwe dude, but here in the philippines, basketball is a "job." 5 pesos worth of game gives you scratches, aches and worst, blood!

Arabs are just tall. and were the first one to do the "naturalization" trick, so they were "strong" but they were never superior to us. oh no, uh uh.

We might not win this all the way, but i do not see an arab team in the
medal tally.

Pilipinas
China
South Korea

you u know MR ZIMBABWE where arabs comes in?

next 2013 FIBA Asia edition.