Fiba World Cup 2023 Philippines

[ja.he]

Even if we loose, we still go to oqt right? For as long as we arent the worst asian team? Lebanon fans got to be more frustrated than us.

Lebanon is like the Gilas in 2019.

[Juan Lun]

honestly Japan’s development system for sports has improved in general, they’ve started winning in FIFA baseball and now basketball not to mention having 2 legit nba guys.

True, we are already presented with a blue print on how we can improve much like Japan, and yet we are stubborn like some posters here

[CoJ]

it sucks that we have the generational talent that could lead us to the olympics but it was wasted by the greed of the pba and chot reyes’ ego.

[paolylo]

Italy is on a must-win so they'll come out swinging against Gilas (I expect to Chot to rest his players for the 2nd round lol) pay close attention to the South Sudan-China game later just incase Japan slips up against both Cape Verde and Venezuela (siguro naman Australia beats Japan for them to stay at 3rd in their group) in the 2nd round. Jordan is in a tough 2nd round group, which leaves Iran or Lebanon to trying to catch Japan and Gilas/China. If all else remains status quo... Japan goes to the Olympics as they should and deserve.

[CoJ]

Batum on France’s early exit

I’m scared to go home because we have let a lot of people down. A lot of people in the country believed in us to do something.

“They believed in it and we didn’t do it.”

paging Chot Reyes, SBP and PBA

[gilasfan]

We are all sad....f* chot

[McCalebb2015]

Lebanon is like the Gilas in 2019.

Gilas is also like China in 2019.

[Rds]

So there is still an OQT. I can see it now, Chot: “Despite our puso and effort we could not achieve the goal. The silver lining is we still have a chance in the OQT. This is not over. Laban Pilipinas, pusow!”

[DAdmiral]

Well here is simple math, number of players with major league experience ( US Div 1 starter, NBA and Euro league), like it or not , there is significant correlation with FIBA results and # of players with major league experience.
This is a question for revisiting our structure and pathway for development.

there is this misconception on strength, while we have household name stars, in the bigger picture we lack quality elite major league players compared to others, yes we are less talented.
lots of those Angola bigs if Pinoy locals would be MVPs in the PBA easily

[paolylo]

Well here is simple math, number of players with major league experience ( US Div 1 starter, NBA and Euro league), like it or not , there is significant correlation with FIBA results and # of players with major league experience.
This is a question for revisiting our structure and pathway for development.

Revisit again? I've seen how this goes.

The "program director" has to suck the dicks of the "stakeholders" whether it be the the SBP, the PBA board of governors, and both UAAP and NCAA commissions, for that matter they have to please the agents of those who handle the ones playing in Japan and Korea.

[C2Hamm]

This is a question for revisiting our structure and pathway for development.

Who will do this? I have raised this since 2021, as long as the main patron of sbp is a pba affiliate, the main goal is to make PBA look good. Everything else is secondary. From then till now, that is still the case.

We will send a mostly pba core team to asian games plus brownlee. Since we wont face teams as tough as in wc, we will fare better but not win it all. Sbp will say we are improving. If leadership is given to smc, then nothing will change. No need to revisit, rebuild PBA again. Ive nothing against ctc but he wont get ample time to build his team if he gets appointed as hc for simple reason that pba needs to be played 10 months a year. Unless that changes wala. And for as long as pinoy players do well enough to get a bag in Japan, Korea, or wherever, there will always be a bridge between thr NT and the said players.

[reamily]

We do have alot of div 1 players its just that theure hagop limited we do have div 1 talents like kai sotto and lopez but they prefer going pro early

[Metta]

Someone mentioned our penchant for instant gratification and lack of patience...that's basically it.

Even the mighty USA became whipping boys when they sent ill-prepared teams. What makes us think we can do better emulating that.

What coach Yeng recently realized (but a lot of us has already been calling for), changes has to be wholistic. Improve grassroots, rules, coaching, economics, etc.

We have a promising batch of prospects in the 17-25 year old range. If we get our act together, we have about 10 years to maximize their potential. But it starts now, not 9 years from now.

[empyreanmaze]

If we get our act together, we have about 10 years to maximize their potential. But it starts now, not 9 years from now.

It starts in their late 20s, we need more 29 year old 'rookies' /s. In all seriousness I'm glad Aj Edu was used this much at 23 years old. Hope he's a good signal that you can profit from your players just as much as the veterans like Fajardo WAY earlier.

[Metta]

It starts in their late 20s, we need more 29 year old 'rookies' /s. In all seriousness I'm glad Aj Edu was used this much at 23 years old. Hope he's a good signal that you can profit from your players just as much as the veterans like Fajardo WAY earlier.

I'm excited to see how it will look like if you pair him with young guns like Tamayo and Amos. Imagine them playing consistently together against high-level competition for 10 years.