Filipino Players in Foreign Leagues

[mapuakid]

I wonder why Jawato is not being played. He's been in Japan since early September.

Maybe coach decision
Still 5mins left in the 4th

[Jackie Reaper]

Utsunomiya has a deep roster with national team mainstays and imports.

[thatweirdguy]

Kobe is so lazy. Is he injured? He looks like Marlou Aquino there of 2002 and beyond

He always had that body language whenever he's not holding the ball..

[hmbopbaduwap]

Jawato finally checks in on garbage time

[Jupitersa]

San-En's dribbling back-up point guard last season now playing for Hokkaido is now killing Niigata from the outside.

[greenarcher]

Live stream links?

[Jackie Reaper]

Live stream links?

Just download AiScore.

[greenarcher]

CBA is playing their season without imports? Woah.

Eugene Phelps is playing in B League Div 2 pala.

[noyce]

CBA is playing their season without imports? Woah.

Limited. Especially against teams really without imports like the Army team. Jeremy Lin will play again for Beijing Ducks.

[zairex]

He always had that body language whenever he's not holding the ball..

I watch his games with gilas when he is still in HS or college. He is active even without the ball. He cuts, he backdoor and active in the glass.
Of Course if he has injury that totally explained it.

[greenarcher]

Also that there's plenty of teams in the Japanese pro leagues - B. League, B2 & B-3 leagues. Sa B. League pa lang, 22 teams na sila. If B-league limits the Asian import quota to 1 asian import per team, then that's only a total of 22 asian imports at maximum. I its not really the Asian imports that would take away the opportunities from the locals, for me its the world imports that really hurts local players development & opportunities. The 3-import per team set up is a bit detrimental to the development of japanese locals

Funny how we are supposed to be the #1 basketball-loving country in Asia but a country like Japan has so many more pro teams than we do.

Even their 2nd tier league can afford imports. Meanwhile our 2nd tier leagues are like baranggay level players.

[Jackie Reaper]

Limited. Especially against teams really without imports like the Army team. Jeremy Lin will play again for Beijing Ducks.

They don't really have imports this season due to tighter restrictions due to pandemic. Also, army team Bayi Rockets is no longer with the CBA.

[Anonymous123]

He always had that body language whenever he's not holding the ball..

Yeah
Get used to it. But i hope some coach will address that to him at some point.

Was not able to watch the game btw lol
Sucks they lost. I thought they would beat this.team by a landslide judging by their record prior to this game.

[magic_chiongson]

Agree. Japanese basketball as of this moment doesn't have enough quality bigs as national team prospects. The Takeuchi twins are already old & are already in the twilight of their careers so as Atsuya Ota ( Thirdy's teammate at San-en). As of now, only Avi Schafer could be considered a quality big man who is on his prime in Japanese basketball.

If Matt Aquino makes some significant improvement in Japan (he's still young, by the way), then I think he has a chance of becoming a prospect for the Japanese national team. That is if Japanese basketball would be open to such idea. Matt might become a role playing big man for the Japanese national team.

japan has more big man prospects than us. they have schafer (23 yrs 6'9") & hugh watanabe (6'9" 22 yrs) as locals, both with ncaa div 1 experience. add hachimura and yuta watanabe + naturalized big and their frontline is secure for the next few years. they also have a couple of half japanese teenagers who are currently 6'6" and above

[ja.he]

japan has more big man prospects than us. they have schafer (23 yrs 6'9") & hugh watanabe (6'9" 22 yrs) as locals, both with ncaa div 1 experience. add hachimura and yuta watanabe + naturalized big and their frontline is secure for the next few years. they also have a couple of half japanese teenagers who are currently 6'6" and above

they don't. we can really have a dozen of players standing around 200cm (6'7) or taller.