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As you all know, we are part of the U21 Championship Tournament. The countries are divided into three groups of 6 or 7 teams. The top four from these groups will advance into the 2nd round of the tournament. Again, countries will be divided into pools, with 6 members each. The top 2 teams from this group will advance into the World Championships, if I remember correctly.

We are assigned to Group B, with the following teams:

China
Philippines (us)
Australia
Taiwan
Lubnan
Vietnam
India

If you look at the teams' rosters as of the moment, we are the sure to advance into the next round, problema na lang ang placing and rankings. Ofcourse, we would want to attain the highest position possible. For me, realistic ung mag aim for 2nd spot, since sobrang lakas pa ng China as of the moment. After China is the Philippines, then Australia. I'm not sure kung final roster na ng Australia un, or they are Centers secret for future matches.

For last monday's match

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/7549/boxscore.aspx

Philippines 107- Lebanon 61

We were able to win with a comfortable margin, despite their Normal against our TIE. Quisumbing and Baluyot did most of the damage on the court, while Igano manned the frontlines with 5 shotblocks. Maquiran was the best player off the bench, with 11 points, on 5-6 shooting, with 8 rebounds, on just 16 minutes of playing time.

Also, we predicted their offense correctly with our 2-3 defense. Our lead could have been higher, kung di nag normal ung Lebanon, and kung mas mataas form ng players.

Again, please limit their minutes to around 75 per week. Kung mas bumaba pa form nila this week, baka di sila maglaro next game. Also, try to get a massage doctor for the players kung sobra minutes nila. They are cheap naman.

Next opponent: India

Greetings, i am the new manager of the highland shields, i have players worthy to look at,i hope you would have time to look at them

train

[Philippines]
John Lloyd Cobacha (11310894)

and


[Philippines]
Renan Zobel (11310890)
Small Forward

we have him na. and someone is already planning to buy him. please delete your post na.

LOL

(7553)

U21 Philippines vs India

nyc one lia...congrats poh sau and sa team pilipinas...

Nice win.. Player pa ng utol ko ang best player.. Si Jayme.. 19 points in 19 minutes..

nagwala si Jayme sa 4th quarter :)

This week, we take a break from the qualifications and went to Argentina to face them in a friendly. They are currently the 22th in the U21 rankings, but if you look at the player salaries, they are clearly way ahead of us. I wasn't able to watch the match live, kc naman, 6AM ung laro.

I was expecting a loss to be honest, kaya I went with a different lineup, to give valuable experience to the others and to try new things, and it paid off. Besides, friendly lang naman and walang bearings.

First quarter pa lang, kitang kita ung dominance natin in the paint. The only downside I can see from this is that we shot 0-10 from threes, kc naman 4 shots were taken by our centers and 1 shot was from the half-court, kaya not bad. They went with full court press, kaya lamang sila sa steals with 15 compared to our 8, pero sa total TOs halos same lang with their 19 to our 17.

Not bad, considering we were the away team.

Best players:

1. A. Ejercito
2. C. Igano
3. T. Jayme

Oh, and btw, we are now the ranked 17th. 3 places up from since I started if I'm not mistaken. Yay us!

Pilipinas U21,
FIGHTING~