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If we’re going to listen to online
trolls and dickless downers, the Philippines should give up on basketball and
every player who still wants to aspire because of the sport must die a horrible death.
Let’s not do sports!
Yeah!
But… here’s the thing.
People need to realize that the country needs to play international tiffs to kind of have a say in the global
scheme of things.
What?
The Philippines will host the
2019 Southeast Asian Games and it will have a bunch of events as well as DOTA 2.
This is cool especially since TNC, FNATIC, and Mineski have gained international
acclaim these past few years. Anyway aside from esports, the country has
decided to include arnis, figure skating, and F’N chess. I need to point this
out because one, we can do a lot of damage from these events, and two, these
events helped to create a record of most number of sports and events contested
by a host nation. The Philippines will host 56 spots and 529 events.
Meanwhile, in the 2017 edition
of the SEA Games, East Timor only had a delegation of 50… and finished the tilt
with three taekwondo bronze medals.
They had nine players competing
for men’s volleyball.
NINE!
I am not dissing East Timor.
As far as countries are, they are pretty much in their baby stages. More than
anything, I would keep an eye on Laos (195), Brunei (105), and Cambodia (169) – whose combined
delegations would still fail in comparison to that of our country in 2017 (497).
And I guess this is my point.
Being the best basketball team in Southeast Asia gives us a say in important
matters. This is why we were able to secure the 2023 FIBA World Cup as well as
the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament and this is why we almost won
the 2019 FIBA World Cup from China.
We have a say in things.
Now I know, if we keep on
joining these international tiffs, it’s highly likely that we’ll end up in the
bottom. I sound optimistic now but I was screaming obscenities for each time
Yeng Guiao sits June Mar Fajardo or CJ Perez… and for every iso-ball Andray
Blatche try.
BUT!
The more entries you send,
the more chances of winning!
It’s that simple!
Forget the days of Caloy
Loyzaga and our dominance during the pre-PBA era. That is NOT the days we have
at the moment! China and Iran have since evolved as Asian superpowers in
basketball with the Philippines, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, and Korea as the
pretenders to the throne. I guess we need to remember the Northern Consolidated
Cement days… and then tune out on the 90s up until the debut of the Smart-Gilas
program.
Also, we have Australia and
New Zealand to further ruin our fun.
We host the SEA Games as well
as other international competitions like how peacocks prance their features to
woo the pea-chicks. Prior to Japeth Aguilar joining the NBA D-League Draft, the best chance we had to have a Pinoy international player was when the USBL thought it was a good idea to call the services of 30-something scorers
Bong Alvarez and Vince Hizon as well as then-up and comer Yancy de Ocampo!
We might be 32nd
in the 2019 FIBA World Cup but…
MEN’S FOOTBALL | 126TH
PLACE (as of July 2019)
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL | 67TH
PLACE (as of July 2019)
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL | 131ST
PLACE (as of October 2018)
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL | 117TH
PLACE (as of October 2018)
MEN’S BASEBALL | 33RD
PLACE (as of December 2018)
WOMEN’S BASEBALL | unrated
MEN’S SOFTBALL | 17TH
PLACE (as of November 2018)
WOMEN’S SOFTBALL | 13TH
PLACE (as of November 2018)
Check out these ranks for a
sec!
If we’re not going to develop
baseball and softball (and I don’t know why), then basketball is STILL the best
sport in our arsenal. Again, this is the reason why the country is littered
with basketball courts and makeshift basketball courts as well as a healthy dose
of brand-spanking balling action in our television sets.
If we’re not going to join global
basketball tiffs because we are not afraid of losing, then what’s the endgame
of the sport in our country?
No, basketball stays because
it is our God-given right to play in world tiffs. Again, we have to brace
ourselves from hitting brick walls in Asia and the world but we also need to be
wary of the rewards we could obtain.
For every 2019 debacle is a
2014 achievement.
And we can’t do this if we’re
going to wilt and die in the sidelines.
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