Holy heck. The kid who couldn’t get minutes on another team, who had to transfer zip codes to Diliman, who had to earn each and every second on the floor… he just etched his name in UP lore. What is immortality if not this? Grabe yung JD Cagulangan!!! Congrats, UP!
UNOFFICIAL BUT this 21pt win means PHI finish 2nd in Group M!
This means we should qualify for now of the OQTs in 2024!
Akalain mo!
Laban!!!
#WinForAll
SAM JOSEF BELANGEL!!!!!!!!!! THIS GUY!!!!
WOOOHOOOO!!!!
WE ARE STILL UNDEFEATED AT HOME VS KOREA!!!!
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#BatangGilas
defeats China, 73-63! The Filipinos top Group B and will advance straight to the
#FIBAU18Asia
Quarter-Finals! One win away from the
#FIBAU19WC
!
Edu- 13pts, 14rebs, 5blks
Sotto- 11pts, 10rebs, 4blks
Ildefonso- 18pts, 7rebs
#LabanPilipinas
#Puso
Say what you want about the less-than-ideal preps and all the other peripheral issues.
When the dust settles, this, right here, is one of the most proud moments in Philippine basketball.
Prospective blue-chip recruits should learn from SJ Belangel's tale. Immediate playing time & production shouldn't be the top priority in deciding on which program to join. Consider the long-term development & culture in which you're placing yourself.
Hamed Haddadi retires from the Iran NT. What a legend. The end of an era. I hope either or both Kai and AJ have careers as productive and as long has Haddadi's.
"I know I put everything for my national team."
#WinForAll
This is your WORLD CHAMPION head coach. All spent. Nothing left to give. Like a toothpaste tube that's wrinkled and emptied out.
But all worth it, for sure.
Enjoy the moment, coach Gordie. What a journey.
Congrats,
@DBB_Basketball
!
#WinForAll
Forthsky was Ateneo's biggest question mark entering the season. He was also Ateneo's biggest answer in this game. More good things to come.
19pts
7asts
6rebs
2stls
🗡
+/-: +20
#UAAPSeason85
Gotta love the kind of impact the Nieto twins have had on Ateneo basketball:
- 4-peat Milo SBP national champions (2007-2010 if I correctly recall)
- Season 77 UAAP Jrs champions
- Season 80-82 UAAP Srs champions
Bled 🔵⚪️ from prep to college. Amazing.
In
#FIBAWC2023
, Kai Sotto will be 21, AJ Edu will be 23, Kiefer Ravena will be 30, Kobe Paras will be 26, Ricci Rivero will be 25, Thirdy Ravena will be 26, Dwight Ramos will be 25, Kamaka Hepa (naturalized) will be 23. AWESOME.
#PlayLouderIn2023
Don't you love it when doubters are proven wrong?
Not tall enough.
Change the coaches.
SEABA lang yan -- sa Asia wala na yan.
Doubt turns into fuel. This team turns that fuel into fire.
I hope that the next time Kai goes up a big stage, under bright lights, and in front of hundreds of people will be when Adam Silver calls out his name in the NBA Draft (maybe in 2021 or 2022?). Fly high, young king.
📷 Kai's mom.
Coach Pop: Let’s not talk about the guys who aren’t here. It’s disrespectful to France and to the other teams in this competition. Talk about the guys who chose to be here. I’m very proud of these guys, and they’ve done a great job.
#FIBAWC
@usabasketball
The possibility of
@ThirdyRavenaaa
maybe playing in the
@B_LEAGUE
has reached Japanese media, and, well, let's just say it's making a lot of noise :) Let's go, Thirdy!!!
First Asian Games gold in bball since 1962. Surely, these guys deserve an amazing heroes' welcome when they fly back, right? Man, what a feeling it must be!
Woohoo!!!
This ADMU win over UST typifies how teams can have counters for ADMU's 1st and 2nd actions, but the question is do they have reliable counters for the Eagles' 3rd, 4th, and successive actions in every sequence? Man, if you guys could only watch these Eagles in practice.
#Magis
How HUGE was this shot by Alex Cabagnot last night? BIG TIME players, come up BIG in BIG TIME games! Game 7 win = SMB 5-peat! Them Beermen are 👑👑👑👑👑!!!
🎥
@Sports5PH
Such composed endgame execution from this young Gilas team. So well-coached, well-drilled, and well-tempered.
Miraculous performance in my book.
Should expect a stronger KOR in the Asia Cup, but we can beat them there, too.
So proud of these kids. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Why can we say that our Gilas boys executed really well in the endgame? Well, it kinda comes down to one number that stands out for me -- ZERO TURNOVERS in the 4Q.
4 TOs in the 1st half.
3 TOs in the first 4mins. of the 3Q.
ZERO TOs in the last 16mins. of the game. 😱
Kai Sotto looking solid in his Stateside workouts! And wow, I hear some ATL twang in that English! :)
Missa ya, big fella! See you in June!
#amDg
#OBF
🎥
@tvmedia15
So impressed by how these young guns responded to the challenge tonight. 2-0 now, and hoping to go 3-0 after we meet Thailand anew on Monday, Nov. 30.
#LabanPilipinas
@FIBAAsiaCup
If you feel a competitor is threatening your business model, and your main move is to "quash" that competitor, what message are you sending?
Compete. Improve your product. Innovate. Evolve your model.
Every time a major FIBA tournament takes place, it's just clear as day that these are games not just between rosters but between systems, programs, structures, and (to a certain extent) even sporting cultures.
🧵
Race to the Olympics (Asian Teams):
Team: win-loss; point diff.
JPN: 1-1; -8
PHI: 0-2; -16
JOR: 0-2; -29
IRI: 0-2; -43
CHN: 0-2; -62
LBN: 0-2; -94
Gotta get that win tom vs ITA.
If not, then gotta win both classification games & hope the other Asian teams lose out.
#WinForAll
SJ certainly could've played more minutes as a "bigger star" for other schools after he graduated from the AHS, but he chose to stay in ADMU, to be patient, to learn.
He is reaping those benefits, and he will be a much better player long-term. Kudos to him!
Loss sucks. No 2nd rd for us. ITA join DOM in 2nd rd.
Still, from -46 in 2019 vs ITA to -7 here tonight. I guess that's a sliver of a silver lining.
Now hope we can get 2 Ws in the Classification Rd to max our chances for Olympic qualification.
#WinForAll
When I see Kai in the hallowed halls of the Ateneo de Manila, it can’t be denied that he is, at his core, still a kid trying to find himself. Still, he has chosen to carry the hopes of an entire country on his shoulders, all to try & make real his NBA dream, nay, our NBA dream.
"Manila has been an EXCELLENT host. I cannot find anywhere else in the world where there is this level of service... always solution-oriented."
Big props Erika Dy Bacon Austria Charlie T. Cuna Eks Gubat and all the rest of the SBP and the LOC!
Kudos!
One thing to lose in Manila to a Jordan Clarkson-led Gilas. Another thing to lose at home in China to a Justin Brownlee-led Gilas, blowing a 20pt lead in the process.
Damn, Yao Ming ain't a happy guy tonight.
GILAS IS STILL UNDEFEATED ON HOME SOIL AGAINST KOREA :)
1954 Asiad - 2 wins
1960 ABC - 2 wins
1973 ABC - 1 win
2013 Asia Cup - 1 win
2021 Asia Cup Qualifiers - 2 wins
8-0, beybeh!
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Born in Birmingham, Alabama.
Played for Cambodia in the 2023 SEA Games.
Played for Syria in the 2023 FIBA Pre-OQT Asia tournament.
Triple-citizen? 3 passports/national ID cards?
Must be interesting to be Brandon Peterson ;)
A true global citizen!
If Gilas loses on Sat vs CHN, we will be the first FIBAWC host country to go winless since Colombia went winless in 1982. More than 4 decades ago.
Laban.
#WinForAll
From a legal and big picture precedent standpoint, this is understandable, but I also can’t shake off the feeling that an opportunity to take a progressive step into globalizing/innovating the league has been missed.
One thing (of many things) that makes this current Ateneo team special is the fact that 9 of the 16 players were honed by the Juniors/Eaglets program. That's the most since the 2002 champions team that had 8.
#Homegrown
#OBF
This Gilas loss coupled with JPN's 2nd win ELIMINATES PHI from direct Olympic qualification.
If Gilas loses on Sat vs CHN, we WILL NOT qualify for the OQTs as well.
Laban.
#WinForAll
HUGE CURSE-BREAKING win for the boys vs KOR! They won, 95-71, and advanced to the QFs! Now we have a shot at payback vs JPN. The winner of that match books a spot in the 2024 FIBA U17 WC in Turkey! The losing team goes home.
Led Serbia in the 4Q, lost by only 7pts, played a team on their home floor, with their NBA players, without our top guy…. We’re a helluva long way from the lopsided loss in 2019. These Gilas boys are growing up so damn fast! Galing! 🇵🇭❤️🇵🇭❤️
Kinda feel bad there aren't a lot of people watching SRB v ITA today. These are two top 10 teams in the world. It's a CLASSIC European derby.
#WinForAll
Our home crowd at our last regular season game this past Sunday. This is what happens when a whole country wears a mask and respects eachother. 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼 Playoff time!!
When the national systems and structures of your sport allow the best of the best to have sufficient preparation and to compete together, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
💯 from coach Tab Baldwin: "Unfortunately in the Philippines, we are tied to this hero mentality and it's not healthy. There's a lot of things that if they're gonna change is gonna take a long time, and some things simply aren't gonna change."
Last chance for PH to maybe sneak into 2nd rd:
PH must win vs ITA (by 13 or more to avoid further complications) and hope DOM beats ANG (3way tie @ 1-2)
Current PD among ITA, PH, ANG:
ITA +14
ANG -4
PH -10
#WinForAll
Race to the Olympics (Asian Teams) as of Aug 29:
Team: win-loss; point diff.
JPN: 1-2; -28
JOR: 0-2; -29
IRI: 0-2; -43
CHN: 0-2; -62
PHI: 0-3; -23
LBN: 0-3; -100
Games tom:
JOR v USA
IRI v ESP
CHN v PUR
Hindi ko na na-picturan pero ito namang mga Serbian, ang pinapak ay DYNAMITE LUMPIA at KWEK-KWEK! Totoo!
And diretso sa practice after so... alam na haha 😆
#winforall
#eatforall