After two years of playing together, Smart-Gilas Pilipinas’ true grit will be tested when the Filipino basketball players travel to Wuhan, China in their quest to put the country back in the global basketball map this September 15-25.
The tournament in Wuhan, China is nothing more than the FIBA-Asia championships — where the toughest national teams [...]
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The way Smart-Gilas (the National youth developmental team) routed the Powerade Philippine Team (represented by the PBA’s best players) last night (98-69), showed how way behind the professional cagers are as far as international play is concerned.
Though the PBA boasts of being a professional league, and having in their backyard the “cream of the crop” [...]
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Posted by Rich in Uncategorized on July 21st, 2009
With a 1-3 win-loss card in the ongoing William Jones Cup, Team Pilipinas head coach Yeng Guiao said in the aftermath of the Filipinos’ ego-deflating 85-87 defeat to Japan that “they were merely learning from their opponents in tournament”.
The “learning experience”, which I have heard for quite a long time (as far as I remember, [...]
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