I’d rather see a repeat of Tab’s team’s performance rather than the 2014 world cup. Tab’s Gilas was carried by our local youngsters, the import was part of the system instead of a super mercenary carrying the load for a lackluster coach/politician. The fact that the return of chotty also returned the sentiment for another super mercenary in the mold of Blatche or Balkman will further reinforce the lack of trust for local players, the same lack of trust that created the Rosarios and Pogoys of Philippine basketball. It’s freeing to see that Dwight, Thirdy and Baltazar are now detached from this kind of environment playing overseas, imo playing overseas might not be a guarantee that Dwight, Thirdy and Baltazar will reach the levels of European players but they’ve surely raised their ceilings playing outside of the PBA, just looking at Dwight and Thirdy’s inspired performance against New Zealand compared to PBA’s top scorers like Bolick makes me confident of that opinion.
Moving forward I think Thirdy, Dwight and Balti would be way more solid 3nd players than any pba players would be around Kai Sotto or/and Jordan Clarkson, provided they are handled by anyone else other than fucking Chot Reyes who’ll probably Blatched, Castroed or Balkmaned whatever good team we have assembled to showcase Philippine basketball. Now I’m hella invested in the career trajectories of Dave Ildefonso and Carl Tamayo, seems these 2 would very likely see the lure of going for overseas offers and ofc Lebron and Caelum. With this level of promises and talent we need an import who’s more like a backup dancer rather than the main piece, pba players also struggle in being backup dancers, they’re very ball dominant but not to their volition but rather how that league molds them that’s why although B League dont necessarily produce individually superior players is a way superior environment and maybe KBL too which we’ll see with Belangel. Of course I just want to get rid of chotty first order of business and I wanna see Tab’s demands for changes in SBP personnel because I’m confident that demand is probably for the best.
Moving forward I think Thirdy, Dwight and Balti would be way more solid 3nd players than any pba players would be around Kai Sotto or/and Jordan Clarkson, provided they are handled by anyone else other than fucking Chot Reyes who’ll probably Blatched, Castroed or Balkmaned whatever good team we have assembled to showcase Philippine basketball. Now I’m hella invested in the career trajectories of Dave Ildefonso and Carl Tamayo, seems these 2 would very likely see the lure of going for overseas offers and ofc Lebron and Caelum. With this level of promises and talent we need an import who’s more like a backup dancer rather than the main piece, pba players also struggle in being backup dancers, they’re very ball dominant but not to their volition but rather how that league molds them that’s why although B League dont necessarily produce individually superior players is a way superior environment and maybe KBL too which we’ll see with Belangel. Of course I just want to get rid of chotty first order of business and I wanna see Tab’s demands for changes in SBP personnel because I’m confident that demand is probably for the best.
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