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Season 23 U21 World Cup begins!

After a month or so of waiting our shiny Silver Trophy from the Season 22 Asian Championships finally arrives. Now to the next challenge The World Cup starting with....

Italy ranked 5th then Indonesia ranked 20th then Brasil ranked 9th then Al Jazair ranked 16th and last Latvija ranked 11th. Top 4 goes to the second round. Matches are at 1:30 AM Tuesdays (I know I don't expect anyone to be present :P)

Win or lose its still a great honor to be one of the teams that qualified to play for the World Cup. :) Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

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Good Luck sa laban ng ating U21 koponan mamaya!

Expected Outcome

Russia Season 23 U21 World Championships

Team Pilipinas made a gallant stand in the first three quarters trailing only by 6 points but lost steam in the 4th to succumb to a 105 to 91 loss over highly favored Team Italy. Employing Run and Gun the Pilipinas squad couldn't find its range from the outside in the first three quarters and Team Italy took advantage of weak game shape of the Pilipinas players to pound the paint for most of its points.

Co Captain of the Pilipinas Team Marc "Jamby" Madrigal was a mere mortal against the onslaught of the Italian front court managing only 6 points and 7 rebounds. Starting PF Raymund Tan was gun shy scoring only 12 points with most of the Pilipinas points being scored by the guards and SF. Luke Daypuyat had a lousy shooting nite with 9 of 29 shooting scoring 22 points. Wilsow Villaflor and Piao Dakun chipped in 19 and 15 points respectively.

Lolo Smithz manager of the Pilipinas U21 squad was calm after the game and was joking around with the reporters. "Our players had frostbite it seems couldn't shoot the ball well. It's cold in Russia brrrrrr. Joking aside a 14 point loss against top seeded Italy is really good enough. We were hoping for an upset but just couldn't pull it off. Game shape is still an issue for our team and so is our FT shooting. Hopefully our second game against Indonesia will be better. We need to win 3 out of the next 4 games to have a chance to get to the second round."

Piao Dakun was in his usual "masungit" mood and he wasn't in the mood to be nice. "My Co Captain needs to step up. I'll do the scoring and all he needs is to defend and rebound the ball. I don't think that going to be too much to ask of him? Maybe his Co Captain status is giving him too much pressure. If he can't take it might as well give up the position for the sake of everyone. Enuf said."

Perfect si Pacquing! Dapat siya na bagong co-captain hehehe..

Walang game shape zzzzzzzzzzz huwag nalang umasa :P

Madrigal for sale...sino willing??serious buyer only...

magkano yan si Madrigal?

bawal pala ibenta si madrigal....magagalit sa akin si lolo... :P baka isumpa ako nyan...

ok lang.. capped na pla yan si Madrigal hrap nrn i-train secondaries nyan

kaya pa ng 1 prodi yan...