Spin.ph contributor Snow Badua talks about the importance of Gilas Pilipinas making a statement first in Asian Games before eyeing success in the World Cup.
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00:00 I'm not speaking here because I want to be a coach.
00:03 I'm speaking here because that's what I see.
00:07 Based on my perspective, it's good for the national team.
00:11 What I can say about what's happening in the Philippine basketball is,
00:21 it's sad.
00:23 Because when it's Asian Games,
00:26 we're not very optimistic about winning.
00:30 We were looking so high at the World Cup that we forgot
00:35 that the Asian Games,
00:37 that's doable for us to win,
00:39 that's what we left behind.
00:41 Didn't you notice that?
00:42 We watched the World Cup,
00:45 we forgot the Asian Games,
00:47 where's the good gauge and barometer,
00:50 how far we have gone.
00:52 And with this development,
00:54 the untimely resignation of Coach Chotreyes,
00:58 that we were asking for,
01:00 and I don't know when we needed him and he resigned.
01:03 That's more painful,
01:05 especially when the program of GILAS was blown up,
01:08 that led to the PBA now volunteering to help our national team,
01:14 which is not what we hoped for.
01:16 Why?
01:17 The PBA is different from international basketball.
01:22 System, game, rules, that's different.
01:26 How many times have we failed in the past,
01:28 sending PBA teams,
01:30 a core of PBA teams,
01:32 to international games but nothing happened.
01:35 Our solution, our explanation is,
01:38 there's the jelly, there's the core, there's the system,
01:41 but you'll send other players,
01:43 the problem will go in there.
01:45 There's no cohesion.
01:47 This problem should be the first in Asian Games,
01:51 we should have solved it even before the World Cup.
01:54 I think Asian Games is more important to me
01:56 because we can do it better.
01:58 And apart from that,
01:59 your respect for world basketball will begin
02:03 with how you perform in the Asian Games.
02:06 In Asian Games,
02:08 there's the respect of our neighbors,
02:12 there's the real action in our continent.
02:17 That's what we left behind.
02:20 So what do we do right now?
02:21 We have to revisit our GILAS program.
02:25 Why is this necessary?
02:27 We saw the problems now,
02:29 from the coach, from the availability of players.
02:32 So if we're going to revisit the GILAS program,
02:35 we should know where we were strong and successful before.
02:40 We should adapt that.
02:41 Where we fell, we shouldn't repeat that.
02:45 That's how simple we should do it.
02:48 The failures, the reasons why we got close,
02:52 why we had a win-win situation before,
02:55 we should avoid that.
02:56 So what does that mean?
02:58 If there are individuals,
03:00 if there are coaches who fell before,
03:02 let's not go back.
03:04 And the next thing is we should form.
03:07 It's imperative that we form a GILAS 3.0.
03:13 When I say GILAS 3.0,
03:15 let's focus on our amateurs.
03:18 It's going to be a tall order because they're eager to play in Japan.
03:23 The Korean Basketball League is also there.
03:26 And some other leagues in Asia that will open for Asian imports.
03:32 Our neighbors are doing that because they want to improve their basketball.
03:39 They are not basketball countries.
03:44 That's why they need to do that.
03:46 And it happens at the expense of the Philippines.
03:51 That's the real sad part.
03:53 Now, when we form a GILAS 3.0,
03:56 let's get a coach who will start from scratch.
04:01 There's no politics,
04:03 there's no other teams that will join PBA or UAAP.
04:07 Let's just focus on GILAS.
04:09 So my suggestion is to find a European coach or an American coach who is already used to FIBA rules.
04:16 And then the team that we will form,
04:19 of course, you will say, "Snow, that will attract the Philippines, that will also attract PBA, let's get them away."
04:24 The GILAS team that we will form, let's bring them to Europe and base them.
04:28 They will go around and around, they will fight there.
04:33 Let's start that with Kai Soto and AJ Edu.
04:37 AJ Edu is already in the Japan B-League.
04:39 Ren Sabato, let's wait for the contract to be completed in Korea.
04:43 Let's form the GILAS 3.0,
04:45 let's send it abroad to Europe or America,
04:49 let's go around there, let's play there.
04:52 And then when we have FIBA tournaments, let's bring it back to the Philippines.
04:55 I don't know if that will not grow.
04:57 We can finance it, we can finance the World Cup.
05:01 We can finance the basketball team in PBA.
05:04 Why don't we help each other, we are the stakeholders of SBP.
05:08 Isn't that doable?
05:10 Isn't that good?
05:12 Because if we're going to play here in the Philippines,
05:16 if we're going to bring our GILAS to PBA, there's nothing to learn.
05:20 PBA players, it's really hard when it's international, then you will use the training ground.
05:25 So we have to expose them abroad and that way,
05:29 we can attract the attention and the attention of big salaries from Japan, Korea, and other countries.
05:38 I'm not talking about this because I want to be a coach.
05:41 I'm talking about this because that's what I see.
05:45 Based on my perspective, it will be good for the national team.
05:49 Our topic about Coach Stab, let's forget about that.
05:52 It's hard for me to bring Coach Stab back because I have a lot of burned clothes.
05:57 We're a clean slate when we get a coach.
05:59 Who are the European or foreign coaches you're thinking of who can help the GILAS?
06:04 Comment below.
06:06 Bye-bye.
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