34th Dubai International Basketball Championship (SGA/Zamboanga)

[r1ck]

At this point I would rather have SGA be the philippine representative in EASL.

[Joe Yabuki]

is this the UAE national team? they look pretty bad

[gospursgo]

Good luck to Philippine delegation for 34th Dubai International Basketball Championships

STRONG GROUP ATHLETICS (SGA)

DeMarcus Cousins (import)
Andray Blatche
Ange Kouame
Malachi Richardson (import)
Chris Mccullough (import)
Jason Brickman
Mikey Williams
Chris Koon
Rhenz Abando
Dave Ildefonso
Allen Liwag
Tony Ynot
Justine Sanchez
Luis Pablo

coach : Charles Tiu
manager : Jacob Lao


ZAMBOANGA VALIENTES

Sam Deguara (import)
Malick Diouf (import)
Adonis Thomas (import)
Kyt Jimenez
Forthsky Padrigao
Rashawn McCarthy
Prince Caperal
Ken Holmqvist
Mike Tolomia
Rudy Lingganay
Denver Cadiz
Job Alcantara
Nic Cabanero
Das Esa

coach : Bobedick delos Santos
manager-owner : Junnie Navarro

Pablo is not in the official lineup. He was just a practice player. Prolly dlsu didnt give him and amos permission to join. 14th guy in the lineup is letran team b player dash cuya

[FilWelsh]

Day 1

SGA 99 - 91 UAE NT


Strong Group Athletics 99 – McCullough 28, Cousins 24, Richardson 21, Abando 13, Brickman 5, Liwag 4, Kouame 2, Ildefonso 2, Blatche 0, Williams 0, Sanchez 0.

UAE 91 – Dickerson 25, Alshabebi 23, Abdullateef H. 12, Hussein 7, Muhammad 7, Foster 7, Ndiaye 4, Ingram 3, Alameeri 3, Abdullateef A. 0, Almaazmi 0, Salem 0.

Quarters: 25-24, 44-40, 63-62, 99-91.

[Rds]

This team looks weaker than the last one. Mikey is rusty. Abando is ok. Dave looks bad. Brickman is ok but is not a high scorer. Cousins is good on offense bad on defense. The other former NBA is good on drives but low percentage from 3. McCullough looks rusty but still a good scorer. Kouame doesnt look comfortable. I really think he should have gotten a surgery.

[JAMSKIE]

Despite a soup up line up, SGA could only beat the UAE national team by only 8 pts. Even if we say that this UAE team got stronger with the addition of a good quality naturalized player, SGA is just super loaded with talent with great size to beat a low tier Asian team.

[lem0nadi]

This team looks weaker than the last one. Mikey is rusty. Abando is ok. Dave looks bad. Brickman is ok but is not a high scorer. Cousins is good on offense bad on defense. The other former NBA is good on drives but low percentage from 3. McCullough looks rusty but still a good scorer. Kouame doesnt look comfortable. I really think he should have gotten a surgery.

Dave has always been bad in his post-college career. All throughout his professional career so far, he has not shown anything yet. Which is why Northport could not be bothered giving him a contract since he won't make a difference anyway.

[Silent Killer]

This team looks weaker than the last one. Mikey is rusty. Abando is ok. Dave looks bad. Brickman is ok but is not a high scorer. Cousins is good on offense bad on defense. The other former NBA is good on drives but low percentage from 3. McCullough looks rusty but still a good scorer. Kouame doesnt look comfortable. I really think he should have gotten a surgery.

in comparison, last years team has good perimeter defenders (roberson, heading)..

plus good shooting as well (quiambao, heading)

[reamily]

Men looks like the path for uae nt to become the best mid team in asia will include joining every jones cup and dubai tournament available..i see the guys playing since gilas 1 but they have dickerson ndiaye and sone young bigs now..

[reamily]

Men looks like the path for uae nt to become the best mid team in asia will include joining every jones cup and dubai tournament available..i see the guys playing since gilas 1 but they have dickerson ndiaye and somye young bigs now..

[Giannis34GOD]

Men looks like the path for uae nt to become the best mid team in asia will include joining every jones cup and dubai tournament available..i see the guys playing since gilas 1 but they have dickerson ndiaye and sone young bigs now..

Remember they beat OQT participant Bahrain last year... UAE, like other Gulf countries now investing basketball, they are also hosting some team USA warm up games, holding NBA pre season games, having a ball club participating in ABA league and will host Final 4 of Euroleague this year, I'm not surprised the way UAE is now turning seriously on their basketball program... It seems Gulf countries now embracing basketball as their 2nd sport after football... As Saudi basketball chief says, basketball now is the 2nd watch/most popular sport in middle east today... And it's good for basketball competition as whole.. We all know those gulf countries have resources to improve their basketball program, they can easily hire quality coaches, grassroot program and finding quality players...

[paolylo]

I'm convinced Blatche became out of shape on purpose so he can get signed to lower play to pay leagues with a bit more leeway. Even Douthiht was still in great shape at 38 playing pro ball in Thailand.

[CoJ]

Blatche would have still been usefull if he’s still in shape ( kahit 2019 fiba shape would do)

he’s just a year or 2 older than JB !

[Giannis34GOD]

I'm convinced Blatche became out of shape on purpose so he can get signed to lower play to pay leagues with a bit more leeway. Even Douthiht was still in great shape at 38 playing pro ball in Thailand.

Maybe he can play in Mongolian league... Cousins will play there after this SGA stint.. he can be a dominant players there since mongolians are too small...

[Giannis34GOD]

Despite a soup up line up, SGA could only beat the UAE national team by only 8 pts. Even if we say that this UAE team got stronger with the addition of a good quality naturalized player, SGA is just super loaded with talent with great size to beat a low tier Asian team.

Chemistry issues... This is the first time playing together.. they don't know each other yet.. and most of their players are not regular professional player participants such as Blatche, Mikey and Dave.. they are all rusty...