Fiba World Cup 2023 Philippines

[IPC]

The PBA says that they'll lend more players to the Gilas pool.

https://sports.inquirer.net/515112/with-gilas-pilipinas-pool-whittled-down-by-injuries-pba-says-it-will-lend-more-players-to-national-program

At this point, do we really need more PBA players? It seems that almost all the useful PBA players in Japeth, Scottie, Newsome, Perez, Malonzo, Brownlee, and Oftana are in the pool. Marcio's position is too loaded, so he's honestly out. Almazan, Arana, and Troy are the best the PBA could come up with at the bigman position, the one most in need. Sorry, I'd rather take Gagate, Pablo, Balti, and Mason over the PBA bigs, given the PBA bigs' lack of usefulness at the 4 and 5 spots. Bolick and RJ too over any PBA PG not named Scottie.

The help Gilas needs is outside the PBA, whether amateur or overseas, at this point.

I gave trying to make sense of it all. We all know they'll just put PBA players in there and not even invite players they should invite. It's probably going to be the usual proven sucky players

And, Quinito says that Chot can still invite players to the pool, and then the former mentions this:

"why not pick 12 PBA On Tour standouts, form sparring team & add to pool? Any1 who performs well cud make final 12! Arvin, Paul, Alas, Troy?"

Honestly, the only PBA guys worth considering right now are Black and Marcio, pretty much it. Maybe Alas and Arvin, but I dunno, they're in their primes already. Troy's 31, meaning little chance to improve, and is a poor FIBA performer. Lee's 34, and his FIBA career has been a mixed bag.

Like thatweirdguy says, same sucky players, I guess. But, kung training pool, it's fine, I guess. Just not the WC pool.

[Silent Killer]

Lithuania Roster for FIBA World Cup

[Silent Killer]

Georgia Pool for FIBA world Cup

[Giannis34GOD]

Iran's friendly matches line up for FIBA WC preparation:

Twice vs Russian national team
vs Montenegro
vs. Georgia


Also they will join pocket tourney in China when they will face Lebanon, Gilas and Senegal

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[B L A C K S U N]

I think there's also that pressure from the PBA bigwigs to include a good number of PBA marque players in the Gilas pool. PBA wants to be well represented in the 2023 World Cup. As I kept on saying, PBA badly wants to ride the 2023 FIBA World Cup bandwagon. I think SBP (especially Al Panlilio & Ricky Vargas) & PBA wanted Tab Baldwin out of the World Cup-bound Gilas team/pool becoz they knew that Tab as Gilas head coach might only include 2 or 3 PBA players in the final 12-man roster of Gilas. If coach Tab was retained as Gilas coach, he probably would not have included a Junmar Fajardo or a Japeth or a CJ Perez in the Gilas pool. PBA obviously doesn't want that.

Of course he would. The bigger question is, would long hair even give permission to let Japeth, Junmar, and the rest of SMC players to play with Tab to begin with? The PBA won't even lend their players, Tab had to beg them, and in the end the only players he got was from Ateneo and MVP camp. Tab knows how valuable those veteran players are, a couple of months of training is probably enough to get acquainted to his system. The PBA and SMC were intentionally setting him up to fail, despite all of that, his team performance was impressive.

[reamily]

I think Dwight is forcing his body a bit when it comes to Gilas. I think he doesnt want to let us down but he has been injured in most of his Gilas stints. I think his weight and aggressive style in Gilas makes him prone to injury. He is actually a bit small for SF internationally. He makes up for it with his strength and aggression. Bit Im afraid this is not sustainable.

This is the reason why Tab played him as PG as well with Navarro or Balti as SF. But we know Chots style needs more advanced ball handlers in the SF spot. If not Malonzo wouldve been a good replacement at SF.

dwight is playing that way even with tab at the helm and even didnt play oqt because he was injured..Pero you cant blame the guy when he s on the court he really plays hard and no reservations..he was like marcio lassiter before he broke his pelvic bone and become only a spot up shooter

[CoJ]

surprisingly, games are not yet sold out!

https://fiba.flywheelsites.com/philippines-en/?fbclid=IwAR2a5xIiL2qILEop_w8xtSDBA_vejzERdclMdgWAgTTQGY-bVFPXWbZklVo

[CoJ]

Heading out of the pool due to back injuries

[JAMSKIE]

Heading out of the pool due to back injuries

That's ok for as long as Parks is there, although I believe having anorher deadly 3-pt shooter like a Jordan Heading would be good.

For me the top 9 Gilas players in the current pool are: Kai, Junmar (he somehow proved himself in the recent Gilas Europe stint), Japeth, Malonzo, Dwight R., Clarkson, Parks, CJ Perez, Iskati Thompson.

AJ Edu, if only he's healthy would probably be there instead of Junmar or Japeth.

[JAMSKIE]

Good to know that Kai's back pain isn't that bad that it would only require a few days' rest & Kai is ready to go.

[reamily]

Sucks we would be having heading as he is the most deadliest fo shooters in limited touches as he is also an underrated secondary gaurd for us..

[sroth3839]

Good to know that Kai's back pain isn't that bad that it would only require a few days' rest & Kai is ready to go.

He should sit out the remaining Invitationals along with Edu.

[reamily]

He should sit out the remaining Invitationals along with Edu.

I tink edu should do a cameo as he needs to feel out the asian competiton iran and lebanon

[IPC]

Heading out of the pool due to back injuries

That's ok for as long as Parks is there, although I believe having anorher deadly 3-pt shooter like a Jordan Heading would be good.
For me the top 9 Gilas players in the current pool are: Kai, Junmar (he somehow proved himself in the recent Gilas Europe stint), Japeth, Malonzo, Dwight R., Clarkson, Parks, CJ Perez, Iskati Thompson.

AJ Edu, if only he's healthy would probably be there instead of Junmar or Japeth.

Having Parks as the only 3-point shooter is not good. Hope Malonzo and Dwight can pick up the slack. If Oftana gets picked, him too.

Pogoy would be mentioned, but in FIBA, Thirdy shoots better from 3, which isn't really a glowing revelation as a shooting guard. And if he puts up a brickfest, his deficiencies on defense will hamper us further. At least Heading was kinda consistent for us, even though his defense might set us back.

If only Marcio were named to the pool. Good FIBA track record on both ends. But oh, yeah, Abando's there.

[Giannis34GOD]

Talking about the 28 day rule agreement by FIBA and NBA... Some posters in every social media accounts still unaware of this agreement, And blaming JC why he still not in Gilas practices until now.. Even media is unaware of this, Even Quinito Henson doesn't know the agreement between NBA and FIBA... I don't know if even SBP knows this... They pressuring JC w/o knowing truth... The 28 day rule agreement involving NBA and FIBA is the insurance policy given by NBA to the respective national teams in case something not good happen to the active NBA player (injuries, freak accidents, etc...)... Actually they can tap JC even early June, But they have to manage the 28 day rule given by the NBA, w/c is not advisable since it's hard to manage to plan the assessing the system given by the coach... That's why no national teams starting their training camp until last week of July.... Last year, Slovenia tap Luka Doncic to play in 3rd window of FIBA WC qualifiers, they take him for 5 training days (Remember: The agreement is not include the main FIBA games, it's separate) And they tap him in early August of 2022 to preparation of Eurobasket and 4th window of FIBA WC qualifiers, But it was reduce to 23 days because they use 5 days of 28 day rule agreement late June of 2022... That's why JC can only join Gilas either last week of July or early August....

https://www.eurohoops.net/en/national-teams/1341231/fiba-nba-insurance-policy-preventing-european-nba-players-from-joining-june-qualifiers/?fbclid=IwAR2dxfcxZhosIwFJwu7EbXpTKqlZkqyLjGy19Bk-uo2NcasrEvLG5hLaV8I