WHY feel sorry?
It was not the players’ fault but the inability of the officials to sort out their problems. It took them years to resolve it and then form a team which is less than a year old.
Congratulations to all the players for giving a good fight!
– N S Rivera, Cerritos, California (via e-mail)
August 10th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I want that basketball players playing for our
country are pure pinoy, natural born in the Philippines not born in the US even they lost the game am proud.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I think we have the talent, but not the mental toughness and discipline of other teams. I see us acting all frantic in tight situations - at the SEA games and now at FIBA.
Also, there doesn’t seem to be a set offense. It seems that our players constantly have to create, without a solid plan on offense to rely on.
For us to get to the level of our Asian counterparts, we need to instill more discipline into our players, and possibly the coaching staff as well. At least, that’s how I feel. Puro nalang ‘next time’ ng ‘next time’ eh. Doesn’t seem to be any significant progress.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I was deeply disappointed with the result of the FIBA asia tournament. But I guess it only stresses the point that we should try and develop in other sports where we have a greater chance. Let’s face it, we can’t compete when they have 7 footers playing basketball. I think its high time we pursue other sports.
To the RP cagers, thank you for all the sacrifices and the hard work you made. No need to feel sorry, at all!
August 10th, 2007 at 8:40 am
STOP HALLUCINATING BASKETBALL IS NOT FOR FILIPINOS!!!
August 10th, 2007 at 8:06 am
The recent games clarified several things for RP basketball:
1-) We have the best guards in Asia. No one could beat the pure talent of Alapag and Caguioa.
2-) We have no inside presence whatsoever. Taulava, bless his heart, was trying so hard. But the fact remained that he did not provide any offensive impact (not even with free throws), and this allowed defenders to camp outside and swarm our guards; on the defensive side, opponents were punishing us with tip-in rebounds and 3rd and 4th chance points. If I were the opponent this is how the RP team looked like: guards are all-Filipino, the big men anything but. It was a wonder how well they kept their faces straight.
3-) Ex-commissioner Ayala was more than misleading when he said we should be “proud” that we beat China twice. It was their “B” team we barely beat. We only gave their 22 year olds more experience they sorely need to overcome us convincingly in the future. We sent our pros, our best, and it was barely good enough.
4-) Our chances are better with 2 specific sports: soccer and baseball. Why? Because 20 years from now, our odds of creating world-class teams for those 2 sports are much brighter than producing seven footers.
Time for us to face the truth folks. Lest we wish our hearts to be broken more.