A week before tipoff, Philippine team makes roster revamp.
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00:00 Well, when I first was approached and started with the team, we were given a list of 60
00:07 players, 30 of which were PBA players.
00:11 The other half were players from Japan, Korea, UAP, NCAA, even some naturalized, possible
00:21 naturalized players.
00:23 And so that was the list in which we first worked on.
00:26 We looked at the list of 60 that we got, the original list of 60, and we chose Terrence
00:32 and Mo Tautua to replace the 60.
00:37 Well, and that, so we were really only worried about Jason and Calvin.
00:44 The other two guys, they were on the list, so, "No problem," right?
00:47 So what happened later is, about five days ago, we were told that there is another list
00:57 that we are, that was submitted.
01:01 And there's a list of 37 players.
01:04 And on that list of 37 players, Mo and Terrence, and even Stanley, who we had as our alternate,
01:11 were not on the new list that was submitted.
01:15 So we had a 60 list that we originally worked off.
01:18 The two guys that, Calvin and Jason, were not on that list.
01:23 We wanted other players off that list, but we knew it would be too hard, so we just asked
01:26 for those two.
01:27 And so then we took Terrence and Mo, because they were on that list of 60.
01:32 Now the new list comes, now all four players are not on that list.
01:36 So now we're requesting to put four guys on the list that were not on the list.
01:41 Does that make sense?
01:43 You still making sense?
01:44 Let me know, because I know it gets confusing.
01:48 We're confused.
01:51 So that's where we stand.
01:54 We're trying to get those four guys on to then.
01:57 We've heard that the answer is no.
01:59 We've heard that.
02:00 But we haven't got anything official, and we're trying different avenues to continue.
02:05 In the meantime, we had to go to the list of 37, and look at that list, and try to find
02:12 four replacements for the guys that supposedly cannot go.
02:17 That's Jason, Calvin, Abueva, Mo Tatua, and Terrence Romeo.
02:25 So we had to look for four.
02:27 So we looked on the four of the 37 list.
02:29 There was only six available players for us to choose four from, from the list of 37.
02:35 The reason why, again, all the players from Japan and Korea, all the injured players are
02:41 on there.
02:42 It boils down to there's only six players left.
02:45 So we had to choose four from those six.
02:50 And so this guy, poor guy, he has to call these guys at 11 o'clock last night and say,
02:57 can you show up tomorrow at 9 a.m. for a practice?
03:00 Inspired.
03:01 Yeah, and inspired.
03:03 So he calls all four players, and they all agree.
03:06 And those four players are Chris Ross, Kevin Alas, Arvin Tolentino, and CJ, who has returned.
03:16 So CJ came back yesterday, so he's now back in the Inspired camp.
03:21 So those are the four replacements that we have for Calvin, Terrence, Mo, and Jason.
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